Fuzzy Expert Systems for Prediction of ICU Admission in Patients with COVID-19
This addresses resource allocation in overwhelmed hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is incremental as it applies existing fuzzy logic methods to a new medical dataset.
The study tackled the problem of predicting ICU admission for COVID-19 patients by proposing an interval type-2 fuzzy expert system and an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system, achieving competitive accuracy and F-measure compared to other classification methods.
The pandemic COVID-19 disease has had a dramatic impact on almost all countries around the world so that many hospitals have been overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases. As medical resources are limited, deciding on the proper allocation of these resources is a very crucial issue. Besides, uncertainty is a major factor that can affect decisions, especially in medical fields. To cope with this issue, we use fuzzy logic (FL) as one of the most suitable methods in modeling systems with high uncertainty and complexity. We intend to make use of the advantages of FL in decisions on cases that need to treat in ICU. In this study, an interval type-2 fuzzy expert system is proposed for prediction of ICU admission in COVID-19 patients. For this prediction task, we also developed an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). Finally, the results of these fuzzy systems are compared to some well-known classification methods such as Naive Bayes (NB), Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), Decision Tree (DT), and K Nearest Neighbor (KNN). The results show that the type-2 fuzzy expert system and ANFIS models perform competitively in terms of accuracy and F-measure compared to the other system modeling techniques.