Machine Learning for Early Detection of Meningitis: Stacked Ensemble Learning with EHR Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15218v2
• Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:37:32 GMT
• Title: Machine Learning for Early Detection of Meningitis: Stacked Ensemble Learning with EHR Data
• Authors: Han Ouyang, Jesse Hamilton, Saeed Amal,
• Abstract summary: We created a challenging condition for diagnosing meningitis, simulating a real-world ER (Emergency Room) scenario.<n>This paper paves the way for a potential future AI-driven diagnostic approach for meningitis using Ensemble Learning.
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• Abstract: We utilized a cohort of 214 meningitis patients and 46,303 non-meningitis patients from the MIMIC-III database. After extensive data preprocessing, which included ICD-based cohort selection, one-hot encoding of coding, and a two-stage feature selection process (for both the training set and the testing sets), clinically relevant features such as gender and high-risk ICD codes (including subarachnoid hemorrhage, secondary malignant neoplasm of the brain, and generalized epilepsy) are selected. Overall, these clinically reasonable and temporally adherent features provided excellent modeling performance. Three models (Random Forest, LightGBM, and Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are trained as base models for Ensemble Learning. Base model outputs are aggregated and stacked into a meta model (Logistic Regression) that uses the base model outputs as input values in training. Ultimately, soldier outputs (AUC of Testing Set 1: 0.9637, AUC of Testing Set 2: 0.9472) are obtained through ensemble learning. We created a challenging condition for diagnosing meningitis, simulating a real-world ER (Emergency Room) scenario to enhance clinical use in real-world applications. While directly deploying a diagnostic tool that clinicians can use is challenging, this paper paves the way for a potential future AI-driven diagnostic approach for meningitis using Ensemble Learning.

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