Understanding importance of clinical biomarkers for diagnosis of anxiety disorders using machine learning models.

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental illnesses that cause constant and overwhelming feelings of anxiety and fear. Excessive anxiety can make an individual avoid work, school, family get-togethers, and other social situations that in turn might amplify these symptoms. According to the World Health...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4169c51943ea493b91ae0170e5d8b46b2021-12-02T20:11:23ZUnderstanding importance of clinical biomarkers for diagnosis of anxiety disorders using machine learning models.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0251365https://doaj.org/article/4169c51943ea493b91ae0170e5d8b46b2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251365https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Anxiety disorders are a group of mental illnesses that cause constant and overwhelming feelings of anxiety and fear. Excessive anxiety can make an individual avoid work, school, family get-togethers, and other social situations that in turn might amplify these symptoms. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in thirteen persons globally suffers from anxiety. It is high time to understand the roles of various clinical biomarker measures that can diagnose the types of anxiety disorders. In this study, we apply machine learning (ML) techniques to understand the importance of a set of biomarkers with four types of anxiety disorders-Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Agoraphobia (AP), Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and Panic Disorder (PD). We used several machine learning models and extracted the variable importance contributing to a type of anxiety disorder. The study uses a sample of 11,081 Dutch citizens' data collected by the Lifelines, Netherlands. The results show that there are significant and low correlations among GAD, AP, PD and SAD and we extracted the variable importance hierarchy of biomarkers with respect to each type of anxiety disorder which will be helpful in designing the experimental setup for clinical trials related to influence of biomarkers on type of anxiety disorder.Amita SharmaWillem J M I VerbekePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0251365 (2021)
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Amita Sharma
Willem J M I Verbeke
Understanding importance of clinical biomarkers for diagnosis of anxiety disorders using machine learning models.
description Anxiety disorders are a group of mental illnesses that cause constant and overwhelming feelings of anxiety and fear. Excessive anxiety can make an individual avoid work, school, family get-togethers, and other social situations that in turn might amplify these symptoms. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in thirteen persons globally suffers from anxiety. It is high time to understand the roles of various clinical biomarker measures that can diagnose the types of anxiety disorders. In this study, we apply machine learning (ML) techniques to understand the importance of a set of biomarkers with four types of anxiety disorders-Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Agoraphobia (AP), Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and Panic Disorder (PD). We used several machine learning models and extracted the variable importance contributing to a type of anxiety disorder. The study uses a sample of 11,081 Dutch citizens' data collected by the Lifelines, Netherlands. The results show that there are significant and low correlations among GAD, AP, PD and SAD and we extracted the variable importance hierarchy of biomarkers with respect to each type of anxiety disorder which will be helpful in designing the experimental setup for clinical trials related to influence of biomarkers on type of anxiety disorder.
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title Understanding importance of clinical biomarkers for diagnosis of anxiety disorders using machine learning models.
title_short Understanding importance of clinical biomarkers for diagnosis of anxiety disorders using machine learning models.
title_full Understanding importance of clinical biomarkers for diagnosis of anxiety disorders using machine learning models.
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title_full_unstemmed Understanding importance of clinical biomarkers for diagnosis of anxiety disorders using machine learning models.
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