Optimal sampling for positive only electronic health record data

Seong H. Lee, Yanyuan Ma, Ying Wei, Jinbo Chen

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Abstract

Identifying a patient's disease/health status from electronic medical records is a frequently encountered task in electronic health records (EHR) related research, and estimation of a classification model often requires a benchmark training data with patients' known phenotype statuses. However, assessing a patient's phenotype is costly and labor intensive, hence a proper selection of EHR records as a training set is desired. We propose a procedure to tailor the best training subsample with limited sample size for a classification model, minimizing its mean-squared phenotyping/classification error (MSE). Our approach incorporates “positive only” information, an approximation of the true disease status without false alarm, when it is available. In addition, our sampling procedure is applicable for training a chosen classification model which can be misspecified. We provide theoretical justification on its optimality in terms of MSE. The performance gain from our method is illustrated through simulation and a real-data example, and is found often satisfactory under criteria beyond MSE.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2974-2986
Number of pages13
JournalBiometrics
Volume79
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2023

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistics and Probability
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Immunology and Microbiology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Applied Mathematics

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