Federated Learning of Electronic Health Records to Improve Mortality Prediction in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: Machine Learning Approach.
JMIR Med Inform
; 9(1): e24207, 2021 Jan 27.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1052474
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Machine learning models require large datasets that may be siloed across different health care institutions. Machine learning studies that focus on COVID-19 have been limited to single-hospital data, which limits model generalizability.OBJECTIVE:
We aimed to use federated learning, a machine learning technique that avoids locally aggregating raw clinical data across multiple institutions, to predict mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 within 7 days.METHODS:
Patient data were collected from the electronic health records of 5 hospitals within the Mount Sinai Health System. Logistic regression with L1 regularization/least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) models were trained by using local data at each site. We developed a pooled model with combined data from all 5 sites, and a federated model that only shared parameters with a central aggregator.RESULTS:
The LASSOfederated model outperformed the LASSOlocal model at 3 hospitals, and the MLPfederated model performed better than the MLPlocal model at all 5 hospitals, as determined by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve. The LASSOpooled model outperformed the LASSOfederated model at all hospitals, and the MLPfederated model outperformed the MLPpooled model at 2 hospitals.CONCLUSIONS:
The federated learning of COVID-19 electronic health record data shows promise in developing robust predictive models without compromising patient privacy.
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
JMIR Med Inform
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
24207
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