Yong Hong Liu1,2, Jian Jin2, Yun Jiang Liu3. 1. Department of Breast Surgery, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, No. 169 Tianshan Street, Shijiazhuang City, 050011, China. 2. Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Cangzhou Central Hospital, No. 16 Xinhua Road, Yunhe Qu, Cangzhou City, 061000, China. 3. Department of Breast Surgery, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, No. 169 Tianshan Street, Shijiazhuang City, 050011, China. lyj818326@outlook.com.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Decreased quality of life (QoL) in thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy is a common, but there is a lack of predictive methods for decreased QoL. This study aimed to construct a machine learning-based random forest for predicting decreased QoL in thyroid cancer patients 3 months after thyroidectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Two hundred and eighty-six thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy were enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study from November 2018 to June 2019, and were randomly assigned to training and validation cohorts at a ratio of 7:3. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality of life questionnaire version 3 (EORTC QLQ-C30) questionnaire was used to assess the QoL 3 months after thyroidectomy, and decreased QoL was defined as EORTC QLQ-C30 < 60 points. The random forest model was constructed for predicting decreased QoL in thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy. RESULTS: The mean QoL 3 months after thyroidectomy was 65.93 ± 9.00 with 21.33% (61/286) decreased QoL. The main manifestation is fatigue in symptom scales and social functioning dysfunction in functional scales. The top seven most important indices affecting QoL were clinical stage, marital status, histological type, age, nerve injury symptom, economic income and surgery type. For random forest prediction model, the areas under the curve in the training and validation courts were 0.834 and 0.897, respectively. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrated that random forest model for predicting decreased QoL in thyroid cancer patients 3 months after thyroidectomy displayed relatively high accuracy. These findings should be applied clinically to optimise health care.
OBJECTIVE: Decreased quality of life (QoL) in thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy is a common, but there is a lack of predictive methods for decreased QoL. This study aimed to construct a machine learning-based random forest for predicting decreased QoL in thyroid cancer patients 3 months after thyroidectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Two hundred and eighty-six thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy were enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study from November 2018 to June 2019, and were randomly assigned to training and validation cohorts at a ratio of 7:3. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality of life questionnaire version 3 (EORTC QLQ-C30) questionnaire was used to assess the QoL 3 months after thyroidectomy, and decreased QoL was defined as EORTC QLQ-C30 < 60 points. The random forest model was constructed for predicting decreased QoL in thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy. RESULTS: The mean QoL 3 months after thyroidectomy was 65.93 ± 9.00 with 21.33% (61/286) decreased QoL. The main manifestation is fatigue in symptom scales and social functioning dysfunction in functional scales. The top seven most important indices affecting QoL were clinical stage, marital status, histological type, age, nerve injury symptom, economic income and surgery type. For random forest prediction model, the areas under the curve in the training and validation courts were 0.834 and 0.897, respectively. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrated that random forest model for predicting decreased QoL in thyroid cancer patients 3 months after thyroidectomy displayed relatively high accuracy. These findings should be applied clinically to optimise health care.
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