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Forecasting migraine with machine learning based on mobile phone diary and wearable data

Stubberud, Anker; Ingvaldsen, Sigrid Hegna; Brenner, Eiliv; Winnberg, Ingunn; Olsen, Alexander; Gravdahl, Gøril Bruvik; Matharu, Manjit Singh; ... Tronvik, Erling; + view all (2023) Forecasting migraine with machine learning based on mobile phone diary and wearable data. Cephalalgia , 43 (5) , Article 3331024231169244. 10.1177/03331024231169244. Green open access

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Triggers, premonitory symptoms and physiological changes occur in the preictal migraine phase and may be used in models for forecasting attacks. Machine learning is a promising option for such predictive analytics. The objective of this study was to explore the utility of machine learning to forecast migraine attacks based on preictal headache diary entries and simple physiological measurements. METHODS: In a prospective development and usability study 18 patients with migraine completed 388 headache diary entries and self-administered app-based biofeedback sessions wirelessly measuring heart rate, peripheral skin temperature and muscle tension. Several standard machine learning architectures were constructed to forecast headache the subsequent day. Models were scored with area under the receiver operating characteristics curve. RESULTS: Two-hundred-and-ninety-five days were included in the predictive modelling. The top performing model, based on random forest classification, achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristics curve of 0.62 in a hold-out partition of the dataset. DISCUSSION: In this study we demonstrate the utility of using mobile health apps and wearables combined with machine learning to forecast headache. We argue that high-dimensional modelling may greatly improve forecasting and discuss important considerations for future design of forecasting models using machine learning and mobile health data.

Type: Article
Title: Forecasting migraine with machine learning based on mobile phone diary and wearable data
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/03331024231169244
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/03331024231169244
Language: English
Additional information: © International Headache Society 2023. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Keywords: Artificial intelligence, biofeedback, boosting, headache, prediction, random forest
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Brain Repair and Rehabilitation
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10168944
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