RESEARCH ARTICLE
Predicting Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) through Vital Signs using Support Vector Machine (SVM)
Zeina Rayan1, *, Marco Alfonse1, Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 14
Issue: Suppl-M1
First Page: 108
Last Page: 113
Publisher ID: TOBIOIJ-14-108
DOI: 10.2174/18750362021140100108
Article History:
Received Date: 14/12/2020Revision Received Date: 7/4/2021
Acceptance Date: 7/5/2021
Electronic publication date: 19/11/2021
Collection year: 2021

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Abstract
Background:
As sepsis is one of the life-threatening diseases, predicting sepsis with high accuracy could help save lives.
Methods:
Efficiency and accuracy of predicting sepsis can be enhanced through optimal feature selection. In this work, a support vector machine model is proposed to automatically predict a patient’s risk of sepsis based on physiological data collected from the ICU.
Results:
The support vector machine algorithm that uses the extracted features has a great impact on sepsis prediction, which yields the accuracy of 0.73.
Conclusion:
Predicting sepsis can be accurately performed using the main vital signs and support vector machine.