Predictive Analytics Based on Open Source Technologies for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

The continuous growth of high volumes of biomedical data in healthcare generates significant challenges for their efficient management. This data requires efficient management and analysis in order to derive meaningful and actionable information. Especially in the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, complications that might occur after the onset of this disease are important. Such a complication is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is a serious respiratory condition with high mortality and associated morbidity. A large number of basic and clinical studies demonstrated that early diagnosis and intervention are keys to improve the survival rate of patients with ARDS. Therefore, there is a pressing need for the development and clinical testing of predictive models for ARDS events, which might improve the clinical diagnosis or the management of ARDS. In this paper, we focus on two distinct objectives; namely a) to design a scalable data science platform, built on open source technologies able to streamline the development of such models, and b) to exploit the platform using publicly available big datasets to develop such models. To this direction, we employ random forests and logistic regression algorithmic models for the early prediction and diagnosis of ARDS. Our approach achieves better results in all metrics, when compared to relevant published efforts using the MIMIC III dataset.