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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Bladder Monitoring: A Machine Learning Approach

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Bladder Monitoring: A Machine Learning Approach Patients living with neurogenic bladder dysfunction can lose the sensation of their bladder filling. To avoid over-distension of the urinary bladder and prevent long-term damage to the urinary tract, the gold standard treatment is clean intermittent catheterization at predefined time intervals. However, the emptying schedule does not consider actual bladder volume, meaning that catheterization is performed more often than necessary, which can lead to complications such as urinary tract infections. Time-consuming catheterization also interferes with patients' daily routines and, in the case of an empty bladder, uses human and material resources unnecessarily. To enable individually tailored and volume-responsive bladder management, we design a model for the continuous monitoring of bladder volume. During our design science research process, we evaluate the model's applicability and usefulness through interviews with affected patients, prototyping, and application to a real-world in vivo dataset. The developed prototype predicts bladder volume based on relevant sensor data (i.e., near-infrared spectroscopy and acceleration) and the time elapsed since the previous micturition. Our comparison of several supervised state-of-the-art machine and deep learning models reveals that a long short-term memory network architecture achieves a mean absolute error of 116.7 ml that can improve bladder management for patients. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) Association for Computing Machinery

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Bladder Monitoring: A Machine Learning Approach

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Association for Computing Machinery
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ISSN
2158-656X
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2158-6578
DOI
10.1145/3563779
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Abstract

Patients living with neurogenic bladder dysfunction can lose the sensation of their bladder filling. To avoid over-distension of the urinary bladder and prevent long-term damage to the urinary tract, the gold standard treatment is clean intermittent catheterization at predefined time intervals. However, the emptying schedule does not consider actual bladder volume, meaning that catheterization is performed more often than necessary, which can lead to complications such as urinary tract infections. Time-consuming catheterization also interferes with patients' daily routines and, in the case of an empty bladder, uses human and material resources unnecessarily. To enable individually tailored and volume-responsive bladder management, we design a model for the continuous monitoring of bladder volume. During our design science research process, we evaluate the model's applicability and usefulness through interviews with affected patients, prototyping, and application to a real-world in vivo dataset. The developed prototype predicts bladder volume based on relevant sensor data (i.e., near-infrared spectroscopy and acceleration) and the time elapsed since the previous micturition. Our comparison of several supervised state-of-the-art machine and deep learning models reveals that a long short-term memory network architecture achieves a mean absolute error of 116.7 ml that can improve bladder management for patients.

Journal

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jan 25, 2023

Keywords: Machine learning

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