On the Application of Multi-class Classification in Physical Therapy Recommendation

  • Jing Zhang
  • Douglas Gross
  • Osmar R. Zaïane
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7867)

Abstract

Recommending optimal rehabilitation intervention for injured workers that would lead to successful return-to-work (RTW) is a challenge for clinicians. Currently, the clinicians are unable to identify with complete confidence which intervention is best for a patient and the referral is often made in trial and error fashion. Only 58% recommendations are successful in our dataset. We aim to develop an interpretable decision support system using machine learning to assist the clinicians. We use various re-sampling techniques to tackle the multi-class imbalance and class overlap problem in real world application data. The final model has shown promising potential in classification compared to human baseline and has been integrated into a web-based decision-support tool that requires additional validation in a clinical sample.

Keywords

multi-class imbalance re-sampling clinical decision-support rule-based learning 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jing Zhang
    • 1
  • Douglas Gross
    • 2
  • Osmar R. Zaïane
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Computing ScienceUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonCanada
  2. 2.Department of Physical TherapyUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonCanada

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