Research Article
Combined machine learning and finite element simulation approach towards personalized model for prognosis of COVID-19 disease development in patients
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.12-3-2021.169028, author={Anđela Blagojević and Tijana Šušteršič and Ivan Lorencin and Sandi Baressi Šegota and Dragan Milovanović and Danijela Baskić and Dejan Baskić and Zlatan Car and Nenad Filipović}, title={Combined machine learning and finite element simulation approach towards personalized model for prognosis of COVID-19 disease development in patients}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Bioengineering and Bioinformatics}, volume={1}, number={2}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={BEBI}, year={2021}, month={3}, keywords={COVID-19, machine learning, personalized model, U-net, classification, predictive models, finite element simulation}, doi={10.4108/eai.12-3-2021.169028} }
- Anđela Blagojević
Tijana Šušteršič
Ivan Lorencin
Sandi Baressi Šegota
Dragan Milovanović
Danijela Baskić
Dejan Baskić
Zlatan Car
Nenad Filipović
Year: 2021
Combined machine learning and finite element simulation approach towards personalized model for prognosis of COVID-19 disease development in patients
BEBI
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.12-3-2021.169028
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Machine learning algorithms and in silico models for the COVID-19 have been used to classify infectious people and predict their condition in time.
OBJECTIVES: This study aims at creating a personalized model that combines machine learning and finite element simulation approach in order to predict development of COVID-19 infection in patients.
METHODS: The methodology combines several aspects (1) classification of patients into several classes of clinical condition (2) segmentation of human lungs in X ray images (3) finite element simulation to investigate the spreading of SARS-COV-2 virion in the lungs.
RESULTS: The findings show accuracy larger than 90% in all aspects of methodology. FE simulation has revealed that the distribution of airflow in the lung changes in time with the infection.
CONCLUSION: The key benefit of our proposed method is that it combines several methods that will be further improved in order to create a truly unique combined methodology for predictive models in patients infected with COVID-19.
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