資訊管理學報
李彥賢;賴家玄;蔡佳玲;
頁: 341-367
日期: 2017/07
摘要: 預防醫學是指以預防疾病的發生，來代替對疾病的治療，其主要目標在於健康的促進以及疾病的預防，藉由讓民眾增加對疾病的認知、改變態度，用預防的概念來管理健康。近年來隨著人口結構與疾病型態的轉變，使得預防醫學逐漸受到重視。根據台灣衛福部2014年統計，頭頸癌死亡率在所有癌症中排名第五。頭頸癌的治療方式根據病人狀況通常包含手術、放射治療及化學治療，然而相關治療的後遺症或腫瘤位置的因素，往往引起患者吞嚥的問題而導致嗆咳，嚴重者更會併發吸入性肺炎。根據研究，頭頸癌若併發吸入性肺炎，在12個月內的死亡率將近10%。過去研究雖指出頭頸癌併發吸入性之可能影響因素，但各研究間觀察的變數不同，且研究結果略有差異，而實務上亦仍未建立評估準則可供醫師評估病患。本研究期望能基於健保申報資料，利用資料探勘中分類學習技術，試圖建構預測模式來協助預測頭頸癌併發吸入性肺炎之高風險病患，以期能給予病患適當之衛生教育，預防吸入性肺炎或及早發現相關症狀，以降低患者的死亡風險及相關醫療成本。實驗評估結果顯示，用以建立訓練資料的抽樣方式明顯影響分類器效能，而從整體學習方法的預測效能來看，Boosting方法在一般資料情況下預測效能優於Bagging方法；而Bagging方法效能差異，取決於採用的基礎學習演算法，其中以Decision Tree方法最佳。儘管如此，本研究評估之五種演算法皆達成相當不錯之預測效能，而以RBF-Kernel SVM為基礎學習演算法之Bagging方法更是對訓練資料外的非目標類別資料（未併發吸入性肺炎之頭頸癌病患），有相當好的預測效能。
關鍵字: 頭頸癌;吸入性肺炎;國民健康保險資料庫;傾向分數配對;整體學習演算法;
Abstract: Purpose-The treatment-related adverse effects of head and neck cancer and/or the anatomic location of tumors are likely to cause swallowing problems that might lead to the complications such as choking, malnutrition, and aspiration pneumonia. Prior research indicated the 12-month death rate of head and neck cancer patient with the complication of aspiration pneumonia is nearly 10%. The factors that cause the complication of aspiration pneumonia have been observed in prior studies but inconclusive. This study aims to discover Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database, the most comprehensive records of medical insurance claim in Taiwan, to construct a prediction model for the head and neck cancer patients who are at risk of aspiration pneumonia. Design/methodology/approach - We reviewed the literature to identify a collective set of thirteen factors, which are relevant to the head and neck cancer patients with the complication of aspiration pneumonia and whose data values are available in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database, and adopted them as independent variables. We used propensity score matching to create training dataset and implemented bagging-based and boosting-based ensemble learning methods with different learning algorithms to construct prediction models. Findings－The results suggested that the five investigated approaches were effective in predicting the head and neck cancer patients at risk of aspiration pneumonia. The prediction performances achieved by boosting-based ensemble learning methods were better than bagging-based ones. Overall, the proposed approach can be promising to the construction of prediction model for the head and neck cancer patients with higher risk of aspiration pneumonia using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database. Research limitations/implications－This study applies ensemble learning to construct the prediction model for predicting the head and neck cancer patients at risk of aspiration pneumonia. The evaluation results reveal the effectiveness and the practicability of the proposed method, which builds the prediction model based on health insurance database. This study has contributed to the research area of health data mining. Nevertheless, the independent variables used to construct the prediction model are limited to the records of medical insurance claim. Future research is suggested to incorporate other data sets, such as medical records into the construction of prediction models. Practical implications-The proposed method can be developed into a decision support system to support physicians in assessing the head and neck cancer patients who are at risk of aspiration pneumonia. Such patients can be well educated in advance to prevent the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia. The development of such system is feasible because the records of the medical insurance claim required for constructing the prediction model are ready available. Originality/value-This study investigated the factors that may cause the complication of aspiration pneumonia, thereby constructing a prediction model based on the health insurance database to predict the head and neck cancer patients who are at risk. We developed a method for database preprocessing, training dataset creation, and prediction model construction. The evaluation results suggested practicability and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords: head and neck cancer;aspiration pneumonia;National Health Insurance Research Database;propensity score matching;ensemble learning;
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頁: 341-367
日期: 2017/07
摘要: 預防醫學是指以預防疾病的發生，來代替對疾病的治療，其主要目標在於健康的促進以及疾病的預防，藉由讓民眾增加對疾病的認知、改變態度，用預防的概念來管理健康。近年來隨著人口結構與疾病型態的轉變，使得預防醫學逐漸受到重視。根據台灣衛福部2014年統計，頭頸癌死亡率在所有癌症中排名第五。頭頸癌的治療方式根據病人狀況通常包含手術、放射治療及化學治療，然而相關治療的後遺症或腫瘤位置的因素，往往引起患者吞嚥的問題而導致嗆咳，嚴重者更會併發吸入性肺炎。根據研究，頭頸癌若併發吸入性肺炎，在12個月內的死亡率將近10%。過去研究雖指出頭頸癌併發吸入性之可能影響因素，但各研究間觀察的變數不同，且研究結果略有差異，而實務上亦仍未建立評估準則可供醫師評估病患。本研究期望能基於健保申報資料，利用資料探勘中分類學習技術，試圖建構預測模式來協助預測頭頸癌併發吸入性肺炎之高風險病患，以期能給予病患適當之衛生教育，預防吸入性肺炎或及早發現相關症狀，以降低患者的死亡風險及相關醫療成本。實驗評估結果顯示，用以建立訓練資料的抽樣方式明顯影響分類器效能，而從整體學習方法的預測效能來看，Boosting方法在一般資料情況下預測效能優於Bagging方法；而Bagging方法效能差異，取決於採用的基礎學習演算法，其中以Decision Tree方法最佳。儘管如此，本研究評估之五種演算法皆達成相當不錯之預測效能，而以RBF-Kernel SVM為基礎學習演算法之Bagging方法更是對訓練資料外的非目標類別資料（未併發吸入性肺炎之頭頸癌病患），有相當好的預測效能。
關鍵字: 頭頸癌;吸入性肺炎;國民健康保險資料庫;傾向分數配對;整體學習演算法;
A Prediction Model for Head and Neck Cancer Patient Complicated with Aspiration Pneumonia
Abstract: Purpose-The treatment-related adverse effects of head and neck cancer and/or the anatomic location of tumors are likely to cause swallowing problems that might lead to the complications such as choking, malnutrition, and aspiration pneumonia. Prior research indicated the 12-month death rate of head and neck cancer patient with the complication of aspiration pneumonia is nearly 10%. The factors that cause the complication of aspiration pneumonia have been observed in prior studies but inconclusive. This study aims to discover Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database, the most comprehensive records of medical insurance claim in Taiwan, to construct a prediction model for the head and neck cancer patients who are at risk of aspiration pneumonia. Design/methodology/approach - We reviewed the literature to identify a collective set of thirteen factors, which are relevant to the head and neck cancer patients with the complication of aspiration pneumonia and whose data values are available in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database, and adopted them as independent variables. We used propensity score matching to create training dataset and implemented bagging-based and boosting-based ensemble learning methods with different learning algorithms to construct prediction models. Findings－The results suggested that the five investigated approaches were effective in predicting the head and neck cancer patients at risk of aspiration pneumonia. The prediction performances achieved by boosting-based ensemble learning methods were better than bagging-based ones. Overall, the proposed approach can be promising to the construction of prediction model for the head and neck cancer patients with higher risk of aspiration pneumonia using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database. Research limitations/implications－This study applies ensemble learning to construct the prediction model for predicting the head and neck cancer patients at risk of aspiration pneumonia. The evaluation results reveal the effectiveness and the practicability of the proposed method, which builds the prediction model based on health insurance database. This study has contributed to the research area of health data mining. Nevertheless, the independent variables used to construct the prediction model are limited to the records of medical insurance claim. Future research is suggested to incorporate other data sets, such as medical records into the construction of prediction models. Practical implications-The proposed method can be developed into a decision support system to support physicians in assessing the head and neck cancer patients who are at risk of aspiration pneumonia. Such patients can be well educated in advance to prevent the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia. The development of such system is feasible because the records of the medical insurance claim required for constructing the prediction model are ready available. Originality/value-This study investigated the factors that may cause the complication of aspiration pneumonia, thereby constructing a prediction model based on the health insurance database to predict the head and neck cancer patients who are at risk. We developed a method for database preprocessing, training dataset creation, and prediction model construction. The evaluation results suggested practicability and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords: head and neck cancer;aspiration pneumonia;National Health Insurance Research Database;propensity score matching;ensemble learning;
瀏覽次數: 12522 下載次數: 236
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