Predictability of intracranial pressure level in traumatic brain injury: features extraction, statistical analysis and machine learning-based evaluation

Int J Data Min Bioinform. 2013;8(4):480-94. doi: 10.1504/ijdmb.2013.056617.

Abstract

This paper attempts to predict Intracranial Pressure (ICP) based on features extracted from non-invasively collected patient data. These features include midline shift measurement and textural features extracted from Computed axial Tomography (CT) images. A statistical analysis is performed to examine the relationship between ICP and midline shift. Machine learning is also applied to estimate ICP levels with a two-stage feature selection scheme. To avoid overfitting, all feature selections and parameter selections are performed using a nested 10-fold cross validation within the training data. The classification results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in ICP prediction.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Brain Injuries / physiopathology*
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical*
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Pressure*