An Efficient Small for Gestational Age Prognosis System Using Stacked Generalization Scheme (SGS)

Abstract

Background: Classification of infants has always been considered a crucial task in the literature related to predicting small for gestational age (SGA) infants. Traditional medical guidance becomes increasingly unsatisfactory, as patients' care should be centered not only on clinical symptoms but also on socio-economic and demographic factors. Infants with excessive gestational weight exhibit serious maternal complications that require early intervention to stream-line the progression of the disease. Methods: This research proposes to use the Stacked Generalization Scheme (SGS) to predict Small for Gestational (SGA) Infants on the dataset collected from the National Pre-Pregnancy and Examination Program of China. A Cleaned Feature Vector (CFV) is created that entertains issues related to missing values, discretization of fields, and data imbalance. Later, Knowledge-Driven Data (KDD) Features are extracted from the obtained CFV, and the proposed scheme is applied to predict SGA infants. The proposed scheme superposed the existing baseline approaches by achieving the highest precision, recall, and AUC scores of 0.94, 0.85, and 0.89, respectively. Conclusion: The proposed SGS can predict SGA infants accurately compared to existing baseline schemes using KDD parameters, which can help pediatricians develop an efficient SGA Prognosis process.