On predicting the outcomes of chemotherapy treatments in Breast cancer
Abstract
Chemotherapy is the main treatment commonly used for treating cancer patients. However, chemotherapy usually causes side effects some of which can be severe. The effects depend on a variety of factors including the type of drugs used, dosage, length of treatment and patient characteristics. In this paper, we use a data extraction from an oncology department in Scotland with information on treatment cycles, recorded toxicity level, and various observations concerning breast cancer patients for three years. The objective of our paper is to compare several different techniques applied to the same data set to predict the toxicity outcome of the treatment. We use a Markov model, Hidden Markov model, Random Forest and Recurrent Neural Network in our comparison. Through analysis and evaluation of the performance of these techniques, we can determine which method is more suitable in different situations to assist the medical oncologist in real-time clinical practice. We discuss the context of our work more generally and further work.
Citation
Silvina , A , Kuster Filipe Bowles , J & Hall , P 2019 , On predicting the outcomes of chemotherapy treatments in Breast cancer . in D Riaño , S Wilk & A ten Teije (eds) , Artificial Intelligence in Medicine : 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2019, Poznan, Poland, June 26–29, 2019, Proceedings . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) , vol. 11526 LNAI , Springer , pp. 180-190 , AIME 2019 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine , Poznan , Poland , 26/06/19 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21642-9_24 conference
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
ISSN
0302-9743Type
Conference item
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