발달 예후에 따른 후기 미숙아의 비지도 군집화open accessUnsupervised Clustering of Late Preterm Infants in Terms of Developmental Outcome
- Other Titles
- Unsupervised Clustering of Late Preterm Infants in Terms of Developmental Outcome
- Authors
- 김호; 송준환; 김승수
- Issue Date
- Sep-2022
- Publisher
- 대한주산의학회
- Keywords
- Premature infants; Child development; Cluster analysis; Unsupervised machine learning
- Citation
- Perinatology, v.33, no.3, pp 127 - 135
- Pages
- 9
- Journal Title
- Perinatology
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 127
- End Page
- 135
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/21525
- ISSN
- 2508-4887
2508-4895
- Abstract
- Objective: This study aimed to derive the subtype of late preterm infants (gestational age, 34 to 36 weeks) according to their developmental outcomes.
Methods: We retrospectively investigated the medical records of premature infants who had undergone developmental testing and were discharged from a single regional newborn intensive care center. We used 5 domains (motor, language, cognition, social-emotional, adaptive behavior) of the Korean version of the Bayley scale of infant and toddler development III (K-Bayley III) to group subjects. K-means clustering (KM), hierarchical clustering, and density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise were used. We used the average silhouette index (ASI) and Calinski-Harabasz (C-H) score as evaluation metrics.
Results: KM showed the best performance (ASI, 0.25; C-H score, 58.83) and revealed 3 clusters. Cluster 1 (need observation) showed low normal scores in K-Bayley III Scales, and cluster 2 (excellent development) showed high normal scores. In contrast, cluster 3 (global delay) showed delayed or borderline scores other than the social-emotional scale. Maternal age (P<0.01), number of fetuses (P=0.03), prenatal steroid use (P=0.01), pH (P<0.01), and base excess (P=0.03) showed a statistical significance among the 3 clusters.
Conclusion: The authors found 3 phenotypes with distinct developmental outcomes among late preterm infants and discovered variables necessary for their prediction. If the target group, requiring developmental testing, can be screened early by using these predictors, it may be beneficial in improving the developmental prognosis of late preterm infants.
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