Similarity measures and attribute selection for case-based reasoning in transcatheter aortic valve implantation

PLoS One. 2020 Sep 3;15(9):e0238463. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238463. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

In a clinical decision support system, the purpose of case-based reasoning is to help clinicians make convenient decisions for diagnoses or interventional gestures. Past experience, which is represented by a case-base of previous patients, is exploited to solve similar current problems using four steps-retrieve, reuse, revise, and retain. The proposed case-based reasoning has been focused on transcatheter aortic valve implantation to respond to clinical issues pertaining vascular access and prosthesis choices. The computation of a relevant similarity measure is an essential processing step employed to obtain a set of retrieved cases from a case-base. A hierarchical similarity measure that is based on a clinical decision tree is proposed to better integrate the clinical knowledge, especially in terms of case representation, case selection and attributes weighting. A case-base of 138 patients is used to evaluate the case-based reasoning performance, and retrieve- and reuse-based criteria have been considered. The sensitivity for the vascular access and the prosthesis choice is found to 0.88 and 0.94, respectively, with the use of the hierarchical similarity measure as opposed to 0.53 and 0.79 for the standard similarity measure. Ninety percent of the suggested solutions are correctly classified for the proposed metric when four cases are retrieved. Using a dedicated similarity measure, with relevant and weighted attributes selected through a clinical decision tree, the set of retrieved cases, and consequently, the decision suggested by the case-based reasoning are substantially improved over state-of-the-art similarity measures.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Aortic Valve / physiology
  • Aortic Valve / surgery*
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnosis
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery
  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis / trends
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / methods
  • Humans
  • Patient Selection
  • Problem Solving
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / methods*
  • Treatment Outcome

Grants and funding

HF, PH, MG received support through the EU project EurValve Personalised Decision Support for Heart Valve Disease H2020 PHC-30-2015 689617. PH, MG, VA, MC received support from the French National Research Agency (ANR) in the framework of the Investissement d’Avenir Program through Labex CAMI (ANR-11- LABX-0004). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Therenva provided support in the form of salaries for author FL, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of this author are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.