Imperial College London

ProfessorDanielRueckert

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Computing

Professor of Visual Information Processing
 
 
 
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568Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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BibTex format

@article{Åkerlund:2022:10.1186/s13054-022-04079-w,
author = {Åkerlund, CAI and Holst, A and Stocchetti, N and Steyerberg, EW and Menon, DK and Ercole, A and Nelson, DW and CENTER-TBI, Participants and Investigators},
doi = {10.1186/s13054-022-04079-w},
journal = {Crit Care},
title = {Clustering identifies endotypes of traumatic brain injury in an intensive care cohort: a CENTER-TBI study.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-022-04079-w},
volume = {26},
year = {2022}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB - BACKGROUND: While the Glasgow coma scale (GCS) is one of the strongest outcome predictors, the current classification of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as 'mild', 'moderate' or 'severe' based on this fails to capture enormous heterogeneity in pathophysiology and treatment response. We hypothesized that data-driven characterization of TBI could identify distinct endotypes and give mechanistic insights. METHODS: We developed an unsupervised statistical clustering model based on a mixture of probabilistic graphs for presentation (< 24 h) demographic, clinical, physiological, laboratory and imaging data to identify subgroups of TBI patients admitted to the intensive care unit in the CENTER-TBI dataset (N = 1,728). A cluster similarity index was used for robust determination of optimal cluster number. Mutual information was used to quantify feature importance and for cluster interpretation. RESULTS: Six stable endotypes were identified with distinct GCS and composite systemic metabolic stress profiles, distinguished by GCS, blood lactate, oxygen saturation, serum creatinine, glucose, base excess, pH, arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide, and body temperature. Notably, a cluster with 'moderate' TBI (by traditional classification) and deranged metabolic profile, had a worse outcome than a cluster with 'severe' GCS and a normal metabolic profile. Addition of cluster labels significantly improved the prognostic precision of the IMPACT (International Mission for Prognosis and Analysis of Clinical trials in TBI) extended model, for prediction of both unfavourable outcome and mortality (both p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Six stable and clinically distinct TBI endotypes were identified by probabilistic unsupervised clustering. In addition to presenting neurology, a profile of biochemical derangement was found to be an important distinguishing feature that was both biologically plausible and associated with outcome. Our work motivates
AU - Åkerlund,CAI
AU - Holst,A
AU - Stocchetti,N
AU - Steyerberg,EW
AU - Menon,DK
AU - Ercole,A
AU - Nelson,DW
AU - CENTER-TBI,Participants and Investigators
DO - 10.1186/s13054-022-04079-w
PY - 2022///
TI - Clustering identifies endotypes of traumatic brain injury in an intensive care cohort: a CENTER-TBI study.
T2 - Crit Care
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-022-04079-w
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35897070
VL - 26
ER -