Development of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Machine Tool to Predict Outcome in Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Introduction: Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is the second most common type of stroke with high morbidity and mortality. Outcome prediction is very important in this disease, to enable us tailor treatment strategies especially in a low- and middle-income countries. Today, prediction is predominantly limited to few clinical factors and may not be very accurate. We explore the application of an artificial intelligence-based platform for outcome prediction with a combination of clinical, radiological, and biochemical parameters. Methods: Data from our prospectively maintained stroke register was cleaned and processed using the XGBoost machine learning (ML) algorithm to predict outcome at discharge and 90 days using the modified Rankin scale. A total of 1,000 patients were included in the study, 129 variables were pruned to 19 significant features during the phase of preprocessing. Results: The data set was split 9:1 with 900 cases being used for training and the remaining 100 for validation. The models were evaluated based on the mean absolute error (MAE). Model-1 trained for predicting “mRS_Discharge” had a MAE of 0.34 and model-2 trained for predicting “mRS_3months” had a MAE of 0.63. Conclusion: ML algorithms can be successfully applied for the prediction of outcome in intracerebral hemorrhage.