From manual clinical criteria to machine learning algorithms: Comparing outcome endpoints derived from diverse electronic health record data modalities
Our results indicate that data-driven algorithms can extract tumor progression outcomes from existing EHR data. However, ML methods are subject to varying availability bias, supporting contextual information, and pre-processing resource burdens that influence the extracted PFS endpoint distributions. Our scan-based CV results also suggest that the automation of clinical criteria may not align with human intuition. Our findings indicate a need for improved data source integration, validation, and revisiting of clinical criteria in parallel to multi-modal ML algorithm development.
Authors
- Barış Türkbey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0853-6494)
- Sarisha Jagasia
- Kevin Camphausen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-4877)
- Andra Krauze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1634-6877)
- Stephanie A. Harmon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-2399)
- Shreya Chappidi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7042-5766)
- Erdal Taşçı (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6754-2187)
- Jatinder Singh
- Ying Zhuge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-4302)
- Mason J. Belue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1298-9958)
Institutions
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- National Cancer Institute (US)
- Center for Cancer Research (US)
- University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLOS Digital Health
- Published
- 2025-05-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000755
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.72