Abstract
The NICHD BPD Outcome Estimator uses clinical and demographic data to stratify respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants by risk. However, the Estimator does not have an option in its pull-down menu for infants of Asian descent. We hypothesize that respiratory outcomes in extreme prematurity among various racial/ethnic groups are interconnected and therefore the Estimator can still be used to predict outcomes in infants of Asian descent. Our goal was to apply a machine learning approach to assess whether outcome prediction for infants of Asian descent is possible with information hidden in the prediction results using White, Black, and Hispanic racial/ethnic groups as surrogates. We used the three racial/ethnic options in the Estimator to obtain the probabilities of BPD outcomes for each severity category. We then combined the probability results and developed three respiratory outcome prediction models at various postmenstrual age (PMA) by a random forest algorithm. We showed satisfactory model performance, with receiver operating characteristics area under the curve of 0.934, 0.850, and 0.757 for respiratory outcomes at PMA 36, 37, and 40 weeks, respectively, in the testing data set. This study suggested an interrelationship among racial/ethnic groups for respiratory outcomes among extremely preterm infants and showed the feasibility of extending the use of the Estimator to the Asian population.
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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