Machine learning based reanalysis of clinical scores for distinguishing between ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in low resource setting

Identifying ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes clinically may help in situations where neuroimaging is unavailable to provide primary-care prior to referring to stroke-ready facility. Stroke classification-based solely on clinical scores faces two unresolved issues. One pertains to overestimation of score performance, while other is biased performance due to class-imbalance inherent in stroke datasets. After correcting the issues using Machine Learning theory, we quantitatively compared existing scores to study the capabilities of clinical attributes for stroke classification.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research