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Phenotypic characterisation of Crohn's disease severity.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference - 1 Aug 2015
Niehaus Katherine E, Uhlig Holm H, Clifton David A
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Crohn's disease (CD) is a highly heterogeneous disease, with great variation in patient severity. Using supervised machine learning techniques to predict severity from common laboratory and clinical measurements, we found that high levels of C-reactive protein and low levels of lymphocytes and albumin are important predictive factors. Building upon this knowledge, we used extreme value theory to create a...
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