Abstract:
Background On-site triage of lot victims at the scene of the trauma is an essential link in first aid, and it is important to study how to triage casualty more effectively and accurately.
Objective To develop and validate a predictive model for trauma casualty triage based on vital signs data and machine learning algorithms.
Methods A retrospective analysis of pre-hospital emergency trauma casualty data from 2017 to 2019 in the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) was performed using five types of models, including Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to develop and validate the predictive model for trauma casualty detection and classification. The results were evaluated using Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 Score and AUC (area under the ROC curve), and visualized using the ROC curve. The results of the optimal model were also validated in the trauma database of the Emergency Department of the First Medical Centre of Chinese PLA General Hospital.
Results A total of 24 948 records of the injured were collected, including 9 496 cases of mild injuries, 9 532 cases of moderate injuries, 5 496 cases of serious injuries, and 424 cases of critical injuries. Based on the ISS grading criteria, the ROC curve analysis showed that the GBDT algorithm was the most effective compared to the other four models, with an accuracy of 82.63%, a precision of 68.21%, a recall of 60.92%, an F1 value of 61.91%, and an AUC value of 90.38%. In the validation results in the trauma database of the Emergency Department of the First Medical Centre of Chinese PLA General Hospital, the accuracy reached 83.15%, the precision reached 77.38%, the recall reached 59.89%, the F1 value reached 55.26%, and the AUC value reached 90.38%.
Conclusion We have successfully developed and validated a set of machine learning predictive models for triage of injuries, which can be applied to assist decision-making for on-site triage of trauma injuries in the future.