Decision-Tree-Initialized Dendritic Neuron Model for Fast and Accurate Data Classification

Bibliometric Analysis of Development Trends and Research Hotspots in the Study of Data Mining in Nursing Based on CiteSpace

Backgrounds

With the advent of the big data era, hospital information systems and mobile care systems, among others, generate massive amounts of medical data. Data mining, as a powerful information processing technology, can discover non-obvious information by processing large-scale data and analyzing them in multiple dimensions. How to find the effective information hidden in the database and apply it to nursing clinical practice has received more and more attention from nursing researchers.

Aim

To look over the articles on data mining in nursing, compiled research status, identified hotspots, highlighted research trends, and offer recommendations for how data mining technology might be used in the nursing area going forward.

Methods

Data mining in nursing publications published between 2002 and 2023 were taken from the Web of Science Core Collection. CiteSpace was utilized for reviewing the number of articles, countries/regions, institutions, journals, authors, and keywords.

Results

According to the findings, the pace of data mining in nursing progress is not encouraging. Nursing data mining research is dominated by the United States and China. However, no consistent core group of writers or organizations has emerged in the field of nursing data mining. Studies on data mining in nursing have been increasingly gradually conducted in the 21st century, but the overall number is not large. Institution of Columbia University, journal of Cin-computers Informatics Nursing, author Diana J Wilkie, Muhammad Kamran Lodhi, Yingwei Yao are most influential in nursing data mining research. Nursing data mining researchers are currently focusing on electronic health records, text mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. Future research themes in data mining in nursing most include nursing informatics and clinical care quality enhancement.

Conclusion

Research data shows that data mining gives more perspectives for the growth of the nursing discipline and encourages the discipline's development, but it also introduces a slew of new issues that need researchers to address.

Machine learning applications for the prediction of extended length of stay in geriatric hip fracture patients

BACKGROUND

Geriatric hip fractures are one of the most common fractures in elderly individuals, and prolonged hospital stays increase the risk of death and complications. Machine learning (ML) has become prevalent in clinical data processing and predictive models. This study aims to develop ML models for predicting extended length of stay (eLOS) among geriatric patients with hip fractures and to identify the associated risk factors.

AIM

To develop ML models for predicting the eLOS among geriatric patients with hip fractures, identify associated risk factors, and compare the performance of each model.

METHODS

A retrospective study was conducted at a single orthopaedic trauma centre, enrolling all patients who underwent hip fracture surgery between January 2018 and December 2022. The study collected various patient characteristics, encompassing demographic data, general health status, injury-related data, laboratory examinations, surgery-related data, and length of stay. Features that exhibited significant differences in univariate analysis were integrated into the ML model establishment and subsequently cross-verified. The study compared the performance of the ML models and determined the risk factors for eLOS.

RESULTS

The study included 763 patients, with 380 experiencing eLOS. Among the models, the decision tree, random forest, and extreme Gradient Boosting models demonstrated the most robust performance. Notably, the artificial neural network model also exhibited impressive results. After cross-validation, the support vector machine and logistic regression models demonstrated superior performance. Predictors for eLOS included delayed surgery, D-dimer level, American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) classification, type of surgery, and sex.

CONCLUSION

ML proved to be highly accurate in predicting the eLOS for geriatric patients with hip fractures. The identified key risk factors were delayed surgery, D-dimer level, ASA classification, type of surgery, and sex. This valuable information can aid clinicians in allocating resources more efficiently to meet patient demand effectively.

Single dendritic neural classification with an effective spherical search-based whale learning algorithm

McCulloch-Pitts neuron-based neural networks have been the mainstream deep learning methods, achieving breakthrough in various real-world applications. However, McCulloch-Pitts neuron is also under longtime criticism of being overly simplistic. To alleviate this issue, the dendritic neuron model (DNM), which employs non-linear information processing capabilities of dendrites, has been widely used for prediction and classification tasks. In this study, we innovatively propose a hybrid approach to co-evolve DNM in contrast to back propagation (BP) techniques, which are sensitive to initial circumstances and readily fall into local minima. The whale optimization algorithm is improved by spherical search learning to perform co-evolution through dynamic hybridizing. Eleven classification datasets were selected from the well-known UCI Machine Learning Repository. Its efficiency in our model was verified by statistical analysis of convergence speed and Wilcoxon sign-rank tests, with receiver operating characteristic curves and the calculation of area under the curve. In terms of classification accuracy, the proposed co-evolution method beats 10 existing cutting-edge non-BP methods and BP, suggesting that well-learned DNMs are computationally significantly more potent than conventional McCulloch-Pitts types and can be employed as the building blocks for the next-generation deep learning methods.

An Extension Network of Dendritic Neurons

Deep learning (DL) has achieved breakthrough successes in various tasks, owing to its layer-by-layer information processing and sufficient model complexity. However, DL suffers from the issues of both redundant model complexity and low interpretability, which are mainly because of its oversimplified basic McCulloch-Pitts neuron unit. A widely recognized biologically plausible dendritic neuron model (DNM) has demonstrated its effectiveness in alleviating the aforementioned issues, but it can only solve binary classification tasks, which significantly limits its applicability. In this study, a novel extended network based on the dendritic structure is innovatively proposed, thereby enabling it to solve multiple-class classification problems. Also, for the first time, an efficient error-back-propagation learning algorithm is derived. In the extensive experimental results, the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method in comparison with other nine state-of-the-art classifiers on ten datasets are demonstrated, including a real-world quality of web service application. The experimental results suggest that the proposed learning algorithm is competent and reliable in terms of classification performance and stability and has a notable advantage in small-scale disequilibrium data. Additionally, aspects of network structure constrained by scale are examined.

Structural Analysis and Classification of Low-Molecular-Weight Hyaluronic Acid by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: A Comparison between Traditional Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Confusing low-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid (LMWHA) from acid degradation and enzymatic hydrolysis (named LMWHA-A and LMWHA-E, respectively) will lead to health hazards and commercial risks. The purpose of this work is to analyze the structural differences between LMWHA-A and LMWHA-E, and then achieve a fast and accurate classification based on near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and machine learning. First, we combined nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, two-dimensional correlated NIR spectroscopy (2DCOS), and aquaphotomics to analyze the structural differences between LMWHA-A and LMWHA-E. Second, we compared the dimensionality reduction methods including principal component analysis (PCA), kernel PCA (KPCA), and t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE). Finally, the differences in classification effect of traditional machine learning methods including partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), support vector classification (SVC), and random forest (RF) as well as deep learning methods including one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) were compared. The results showed that genetic algorithm (GA)-SVC and RF were the best performers in traditional machine learning, but their highest accuracy in the test dataset was 90%, while the accuracy of 1D-CNN and LSTM models in the training dataset and test dataset classification was 100%. The results of this study show that compared with traditional machine learning, the deep learning models were better for the classification of LMWHA-A and LMWHA-E. Our research provides a new methodological reference for the rapid and accurate classification of biological macromolecules.

Intelligent Dendritic Neural Model for Classification Problems

In recent years, the dendritic neural model has been widely employed in various fields because of its simple structure and inexpensive cost. Traditional numerical optimization is ineffective for the parameter optimization problem of the dendritic neural model; it is easy to fall into local in the optimization process, resulting in poor performance of the model. This paper proposes an intelligent dendritic neural model firstly, which uses the intelligent optimization algorithm to optimize the model instead of the traditional dendritic neural model with a backpropagation algorithm. The experiment compares the performance of ten representative intelligent optimization algorithms in six classification datasets. The optimal combination of user-defined parameters for the model evaluates by using Taguchi’s method, systemically. The results show that the performance of an intelligent dendritic neural model is significantly better than a traditional dendritic neural model. The intelligent dendritic neural model has small classification errors and high accuracy, which provides an effective approach for the application of dendritic neural model in engineering classification problems. In addition, among ten intelligent optimization algorithms, an evolutionary algorithm called biogeographic optimization algorithm has excellent performance, and can quickly obtain high-quality solutions and excellent convergence speed.