The researchers — led by Vida Abedi, PhD, a Geisinger Health System researcher and an adjunct faculty member in the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech’s Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory — examined EHR data from 260 emergency room patients experiencing stroke-like symptoms. They developed an ANN model to stratify patients exhibiting stroke symptoms.
Their findings, published in Stroke, sought to validate the model. The researchers demonstrated the model’s average sensitivity for the diagnosis of acute cerebral ischemia was 80 percent. Its average specificity for diagnosis was 86.2 percent and its median precision for diagnosis was 92 percent. They concluded the model was an effective tool evaluate stroke patients.
“Our team has applied AI successfully to develop a data-driven triage process for classifying stroke patients,” said Dr. Abedi.
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