Prediction of Clinical Outcomes of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using Motion Tracking Data and Elastic Net Regression

David Chen, Steve Rust, En Ju D. Lin, Simon Lin, Leslie Nelson, Lindsay Alfano, Linda P. Lowes

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Abstract

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common muscle disease that can lead to high rate of infant mortality. It is important to be able to quickly and accurately diagnose SMAs as well as track disease progression throughout the treatment process. This study introduced a framework for deriving movement features from motion tracking data, and applied a regularized regression method to predict the gold standard clinical measures for SMA, the CHOP INTEND Extremities Scores (CIES). Our results showed the CIES could be predicted with good accuracy using derived motion features and Elastic Net regression. An RMSE of 8.5 points on CIES was achieved in both cross-validation and prediction on the held-out set. A high ROC-AUC of 0.91 was achieved for discriminating SMA infants from Controls on both session and subject levels. It was concluded that motion tracking devices could potentially be used as a low-cost yet effective method to assess and monitor infants with SMA.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationACM-BCB 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages474-481
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450357944
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 15 2018
Event9th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, ACM-BCB 2018 - Washington, United States
Duration: Aug 29 2018Sep 1 2018

Publication series

NameACM-BCB 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

Other

Other9th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, ACM-BCB 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period8/29/189/1/18

Keywords

  • Elastic net
  • Kinect
  • Motion tracking
  • Regularized regression
  • Spinal muscular atrophy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software
  • Health Informatics
  • Biomedical Engineering

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