Clinical decision support models for oropharyngeal cancer treatment: design and evaluation of a multi-stage knowledge abstraction and formalization process,International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

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Clinical decision support models for oropharyngeal cancer treatment: design and evaluation of a multi-stage knowledge abstraction and formalization process
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s11548-022-02675-3
Jan Gaebel ₁ , Stefanie Mehlhorn _{1,

2} , Alexander Oeser ₁ , Andreas Dietz ₂ , Thomas Neumuth ₁ , Matthaeus Stoehr ₂

Affiliation

Purpose

Treatment decisions in oncology are demanding and affect survival, general health, and quality of life. Expert systems can handle the complexity of the oncological field. We propose the application of a hybrid modeling approach for decision support models consisting of expert-based implementation of a decision model structure and machine-learning (ML) based parameter generation. We demonstrate our approach for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer.

Methods

We created a clinical decision model based on Bayesian Networks and iteratively optimized its characteristics using structured knowledge engineering approaches. We combined manual adaptation of individual concepts with automatic learning of parameters and causalities. Using data from 94 patient records, we targeted the needed objectivity and clinical significance.

Results

In three iteration steps, we assessed the model with cross-validations. The initial aggregated accuracy of 0.529 could be increased to 0.883 in the final version. The predictive rates of the target nodes range from 0.557 to 0.960.

Conclusion

Combining different methodological approaches requires balancing the complexity of the clinical subject matter with the amount of information available in the dataset for ML application. Our method showed promising results because flaws of one approach can be overcome by the other approach. However, technical integrability as well as clinical acceptance must always be ensured.

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