dengue-severity-prediction-models

Dengue Severity / Shock Risk Prediction Models

🏥 Clinical Purpose

Predict which dengue patients will develop Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS) — critical for triage decisions at hospital presentation in Malaysian emergency departments.

Stakeholders: Malaysian hospital EDs, Ministry of Health (MOH), University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC)

📊 Performance Summary

Published benchmark: ~86% accuracy (Healthcare Analytics 2024)
Our best (XGBoost): 90.1% accuracy, AUC 0.952 ✓

🔬 Research Backing

Based on multiple peer-reviewed studies from Malaysian and Southeast Asian institutions:

1. "ML Nomogram for Predicting DSS in Pediatric Patients" (Cureus 2025, PMC12056676) — RF AUC=0.945
2. "ML-based models for prediction of in-hospital mortality in DSS" (World J Methodol 2025, PMC11948190) — RF/XGBoost AUC=0.97 with SMOTE
3. "Predictive analytics model using ML to estimate shock risk" (Healthcare Analytics 2024, UMMC)
4. "Prediction of dengue outbreak in Selangor" (Scientific Reports 2021)

📋 Dataset

• Source: farouk04/dengue-severity-clinical-dataset
• Samples: 3,000 patients
• Features: 18 clinical variables
• Target: Binary (DSS=1, Non-DSS=0)
• Class Balance: 30% DSS, 70% Non-DSS
• Missing Values: ~4% in 7 lab features (realistic for ED setting)

Features (18 clinical variables)

🏗️ Methodology

Preprocessing Pipeline

1. Imputation: Median (robust to skewed lab values)
2. Scaling: StandardScaler (critical for SVM, MLP, LSTM)
3. Oversampling: SMOTE (k=5) — proven essential in PMC11948190 (specificity drops from 97% to 50% without it)

Validation

• 75/25 stratified train/test split (matching Cureus 2025 protocol)
• 5-fold stratified cross-validation with SMOTE inside each fold (no data leakage)

Hyperparameters (from published research)

• Logistic Regression: C=1.0, L2 penalty, LBFGS solver
• Random Forest: 500 trees, sqrt features, no max depth
• XGBoost: 200 trees, lr=0.1, max_depth=6, subsample=0.8
• SVM: C=10, RBF kernel, gamma=scale
• MLP: (64, 32, 16) layers, Adam, adaptive LR, early stopping
• LSTM: Bidirectional, 2 layers, 64 hidden, attention mechanism, 6-step sequences

🔑 Top Predictive Features (SHAP + Gini)

1. ALT (liver enzyme) — strongest discriminator
2. Diastolic BP — pulse pressure narrowing indicates plasma leakage
3. AST (liver enzyme) — hepatic involvement severity
4. Platelet count — thrombocytopenia marks severity
5. Pulse rate — compensatory tachycardia
6. PT (prothrombin time) — coagulopathy
7. Fibrinogen — consumption coagulopathy

🏥 Clinical Decision Framework

Deployment Recommendations

Proposed Two-Stage Clinical Workflow

Stage 1: Patient presents → Logistic Regression screen (catch ALL DSS, Sens=87.1%)
Stage 2: If positive → XGBoost confirmation (Spec=93.3%, reduce false positives)

If CONFIRMED DSS:
  → Immediate IV fluid resuscitation (20mL/kg crystalloid bolus)
  → ICU bed reservation
  → Continuous hemodynamic monitoring
  → Alert senior medical officer
  → Repeat FBC every 4-6 hours

Manual Risk Score (0-10 points)

Risk Levels: 0-2 LOW (standard care) | 3-5 MODERATE (close monitoring) | 6-8 HIGH (ICU consideration) | 9-10 CRITICAL (immediate ICU)

📁 Files

models/
├── logistic_regression.joblib    # Model 1
├── random_forest.joblib          # Model 2
├── xgboost.joblib                # Model 3 (BEST)
├── svm_rbf.joblib                # Model 4
├── neural_network_mlp.joblib     # Model 5
├── lstm_dengue.pt                # Model 6 (PyTorch)
├── imputer.joblib                # Preprocessing
└── scaler.joblib                 # Preprocessing

outputs/
├── results.json                  # All metrics
├── roc_pr_curves.png            # ROC + PR curves
├── model_comparison.png         # Bar chart comparison
├── confusion_matrices.png       # All 6 confusion matrices
├── shap_importance.png          # SHAP beeswarm plot
├── feature_importance.png       # RF vs SHAP comparison
├── feature_importance_shap.csv  # SHAP values
└── feature_importance_rf.csv    # RF Gini importance

🚀 Usage

import joblib
import numpy as np

# Load best model (XGBoost)
model = joblib.load("models/xgboost.joblib")
imputer = joblib.load("models/imputer.joblib")
scaler = joblib.load("models/scaler.joblib")

# Example patient (18 features in order)
patient = np.array([[
    35,     # age
    1,      # sex (male)
    45.0,   # platelet_count (×10⁹/L) - LOW
    46.0,   # hematocrit (%) - ELEVATED
    3.5,    # wbc_count
    35.0,   # aptt
    14.0,   # pt
    130.0,  # fibrinogen - LOW
    180.0,  # ast - HIGH
    95.0,   # alt
    2.8,    # albumin - LOW
    131.0,  # sodium - LOW
    1.0,    # creatinine
    75.0,   # glucose
    5.0,    # fever_days
    85.0,   # systolic_bp - LOW
    55.0,   # diastolic_bp
    110.0   # pulse_rate - HIGH
]])

# Preprocess and predict
patient_imp = imputer.transform(patient)
patient_scaled = scaler.transform(patient_imp)
risk_probability = model.predict_proba(patient_scaled)[0, 1]
prediction = "DSS (Severe)" if risk_probability >= 0.5 else "Non-DSS"

print(f"DSS Risk Probability: {risk_probability:.1%}")
print(f"Prediction: {prediction}")
# Output: DSS Risk Probability: 89.3%
# Output: Prediction: DSS (Severe)

⚠️ Limitations & Ethical Considerations

1. Synthetic dataset — trained on clinically-calibrated synthetic data, NOT real patient records
2. Requires prospective validation at UMMC/Malaysian hospitals before clinical deployment
3. Not a standalone diagnostic — must be used alongside clinical judgment
4. Population bias — distributions based on Malaysian/Vietnamese pediatric cohorts; may not generalize to all populations
5. Feature availability — requires 18 lab values which take 1-2 hours; not instant at triage
6. Regulatory approval — requires MDA (Medical Device Authority) approval for clinical use in Malaysia

📄 Citation

@misc{dengue_severity_prediction_2025,
  title={Dengue Severity / Shock Risk Prediction: A Multi-Model ML Approach},
  author={farouk04},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/farouk04/dengue-severity-prediction-models}
}

📚 References

1. PMC12056676 — "ML Nomogram for Predicting DSS in Pediatric Patients" (Cureus 2025)
2. PMC11948190 — "ML-based models for prediction of in-hospital mortality in DSS" (World J Methodol 2025)
3. Healthcare Analytics 2024 — "Predictive analytics model using ML to estimate shock risk" (UMMC)
4. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79193-2 — "Prediction of dengue outbreak in Selangor" (Scientific Reports 2021)
5. PMC7757819 — "Assessing dengue severity risk using ML" (PLoS NTD 2020)

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Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = 'farouk04/dengue-severity-prediction-models'
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id)

For non-causal architectures, replace AutoModelForCausalLM with the appropriate AutoModel class.