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BJA Advance Access published online on October 25, 2006
British Journal of Anaesthesia, doi:10.1093/bja/ael282
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Accepted August 23, 2006

Clinical Investigation

Predicting postoperative nausea and vomiting with the application of an artificial neural network

S. Y. Peng 1 *, K. C. Wu 2, J. J. Wang 2, J. H. Chuang 3, S. K. Peng 1, and Y. H. Lai 2

1 Department of Anesthesiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
2 Department of Anesthesiology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
3 Center for Disease Control and Institute of Health Informatics and Decision Making, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, Republic of China

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
S. Y. Peng, E-mail: shihyen.peng{at}gmail.com


  Abstract

Background. Several medications have proved to be useful in preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). However, routine antiemetic prophylaxis is not cost-effective. We evaluated the accuracy and discriminating power of an artificial neural network (ANN) to predict PONV.

Methods. We analysed data from 1086 in-patients who underwent various surgical procedures under general anaesthesia without antiemetic prophylaxis. Predictors used for ANN training were selected by computing the value of {chi}2 statistic and information gain with respect to PONV. The configuration of the ANN was chosen by using a software tool. Then the training of the ANN was performed based on data from a training set (n=656). Testing validation was performed with the remaining patients (n=430) whose outcome regarding PONV was unknown to the ANN. Area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to quantify predictive performance. ANN performance was compared with those of the Naïve Bayesian classifier model, logistic regression model, simplified Apfel score and Koivuranta score.

Results. ANN accuracy was 83.3%, sensitivity 77.9% and specificity 85.0% in predicting PONV. The areas under the ROC curve follow: ANN, 0.814 (0.774-0.850); Naïve Bayesian classifier, 0.570 (0.522-0.617); logistic regression, 0.669 (0.623-0.714); Koivuranta score, 0.626 (0.578-0.672); simplified Apfel score, 0.624 (0.576-0.670). ANN discriminatory power was superior to those of the other predicting models (P<0.05).

Conclusions. The ANN provided the best predictive performance among all tested models.

Keywords: measurement techniques, artificial neural network, Naïve Bayesian classifier, Koivuranta score; PONV.
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