Machine learning inspired approaches to combine standard medical measures at an intensive care unit

Abstract

There are many standard methods used at Intensive Care Units (ICU) in order to overview patient’s situation. We present in this paper a new method that outperforms the prediction accuracy of each medical standard method by combining them using Machine Learning (ML) inspired classification approaches. We have used different Machine Learning algorithms to compare the accuracy of our new method with other existing approaches used by ML community. The new method is an hybrid made between the Nearest Neighbour and the Naive Bayes classification methods. Experimental results show that this new approach is better than any standard method used in the prediction of survival of ICU patients, and better than the combination of these medical approaches done by using standard ML algorithms.