Comparison of different methods for hemodialysis evaluation by means of ROC curves: from artificial intelligence to current methods

Abstract

For both cases (URR and Kt/V), the minimum doses required to achieve the lowest FPR and ER for the standard methods (stdURR and Kt/Vsp) were higher than those reported by the DOQI guidelines, being 70% for stdURR and 1.35 for Kt/Vsp, whereas for those methods using the double-pool Kt/V or equilibrated URR, the dose targets were close to those recommended by DOQI and ERA. Our proposed method for target dose selection is easy to understand, and it takes into account both accuracy and confidence of the adequacy tool. We found the ANN method to be superior to the Smye method for estimation of equilibrated urea, and the results presented here suggest that ANN methods could be useful tools in the analysis of nephrology data.