Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by organisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex. In many low and middle-income countries, TB remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Once a patient has been diagnosed with TB, it is critical that healthcare workers make the most appropriate treatment decision given the individual conditions of the patient and the likely course of the disease based on medical experience. Depending on the prognosis, delayed or inappropriate treatment can result in unsatisfactory results including the exacerbation of clinical symptoms, poor quality of life, and increased risk of death. This work benchmarks machine learning models to aid TB prognosis using a Brazilian health database of confirmed cases and deaths related to TB in the State of Amazonas. The goal is to predict the probability of death by TB thus aiding the prognosis of TB and associated treatment decision making process. In its original form, the data set comprised 36,228 records and 130 fields but suffered from missing, incomplete, or incorrect data. Following data cleaning and preprocessing, a revised data set was generated comprising 24,015 records and 38 fields, including 22,876 reported cured TB patients and 1139 deaths by TB. To explore how the data imbalance impacts model performance, two controlled experiments were designed using (1) imbalanced and (2) balanced data sets. The best result is achieved by the Gradient Boosting (GB) model using the balanced data set to predict TB-mortality, and the ensemble model composed by the Random Forest (RF), GB and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) models is the best model to predict the cure class.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by organisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex. In many low and middle-income countries, TB remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. This work performs a benchmarking of machine learning models using a Brazilian health database related to TB confirmed cases and deaths, named SINAN-TB. The goal is to predict the probability of death by TB, assisting the TB prognosis and decision taking process. The database originally has 130 features, and many of these features had missing data, or incorrect data regarding the notification dates or birth dates, or were not related to the clinical and laboratory data. These data are treated, and after the preprocessing step, a new database with 38 features and 24,015 records is generated, having 22,876 TB cases and 1,139 deaths by TB. We design two experiments to investigated how the data unbalancing impacts on the models performance. With the evaluation of the f1-macro metric, we verify that the best result is achieved when using the imbalanced database, with the ensemble model that is composed of gradient boosting (GB), random forest (RF) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by organisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex. In many low and middle-income countries, TB remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Once a patient has been diagnosed with TB, it is critical that healthcare workers make the most appropriate treatment decision given the individual conditions of the patient and the likely course of the disease based on medical experience. Depending on the prognosis, delayed or inappropriate treatment can result in unsatisfactory results including the exacerbation of clinical symptoms, poor quality of life, and increased risk of death. This work benchmarks machine learning models to aid TB prognosis using a Brazilian health database of confirmed cases and deaths related to TB in the State of Amazonas. The goal is to predict the probability of death by TB thus aiding the prognosis of TB and associated treatment decision making process. In its original form, the data set comprised 36,228 records and 130 fields but suffered from missing, incomplete, or incorrect data. Following data cleaning and preprocessing, a revised data set was generated comprising 24,015 records and 38 fields, including 22,876 reported cured TB patients and 1,139 deaths by TB. To explore how the data imbalance impacts model performance, two controlled experiments were designed using (1) imbalanced and (2) balanced data sets. The best result is achieved by the Gradient Boosting (GB) model using the balanced data set to predict TB-mortality, and the ensemble model composed by the Random Forest (RF), GB and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) models is the best model to predict the cure class.
O aumento significativo de infrações de trânsito tem se tornado algo casual na vida dos brasileiros. A cidade do Recife, estado de Pernambuco, segundo a empresa Holandesa TomTom Traffic, no ano de 2018, ocupava a 10º posição entre as cidades com o pior tráfego de automóveis no mundo. Em 2019 passou a ocupar a 15º posição. Diante disto, esta pesquisa tem como intuito investigar fatores relacionados ao aumento da quantidade de equipamentos de aferição automática e de agentes de trânsito. O objetivo é criar um modelo de predição de delitos no trânsito por turnos, testado com a base real referente ao ano de 2019. Já os dados selecionados para visualização e treinamento das técnicas de Machine Learning foram referentes aos anos de 2017 e 2018, extraídos do portal de dados abertos. Para guiar o processo de mineração e análise de dados, a metodologia CRISP-DM foi aplicada. Além disso, ferramentas como Pentaho PDI, Weka, GretL, Python e Orange Data Mining também foram utilizadas para auxiliar neste processo. Os resultados obtidos apontam que há um aumento significativo de infrações em feriados, principalmente no Corpus Christi. Além disso, as predições mensais apresentam bons resultados quando comparados aos números reais de infrações.
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