Learning to Detect Sepsis with a Multitask Gaussian Process RNN Classifier

Authors: Joseph Futoma, Sanjay Hariharan, Katherine Heller

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental In a large cohort of heterogeneous inpatient encounters at our university health system we find that it outperforms several baselines at predicting sepsis, and yields 19.4% and 55.5% improved areas under the Receiver Operating Characteristic and Precision Recall curves as compared to the NEWS score currently used by our hospital.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Dept. of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham NC, USA. Correspondence to: Joseph Futoma <jdf38@duke.edu>.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Lanczos Method to approximate Σ1/2ξ
Open Source Code Yes 1https://github.com/jfutoma/MGP-RNN
Open Datasets No Our dataset consists of 49,312 inpatient admissions from our university health system spanning 18 months, extracted directly from our EHR.
Dataset Splits Yes We train our method to 80% of the full dataset, setting aside 10% as a validation set to select hyperparameters and a final 10% for testing.
Hardware Specification Yes On a server with 63GB RAM and 12 Intel Xeon E5-2680 2.50GHz CPUs
Software Dependencies No We implemented our methods in Tensorflow1. No specific version number for TensorFlow or other software dependencies is provided.
Experiment Setup Yes We train all models using stochastic gradient descent with the ADAM optimizer (Kingma & Ba, 2015) using minibatches of 100 encounters at a time and a learning rate of 0.001.