PancreApp: An Innovative Approach to Computational Individualization of Nutritional Therapy in Chronic Gastrointestinal Disorders.
Medical nutrition therapy has a pivotal role in the management of chronic gastrointestinal disorders, like chronic pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel diseases (Leśniowski-Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) or irritable bowel syndrome. The aim of this study is to develop, deploy and evaluate an interactive application for Windows and Android operating systems, which could serve as a digital diet diary and as an analysis and a prediction tool both for the patient and the doctor. The software is gathering details about patients' diet and associated fettle in order to estimate fettle change after future meals, specifically for an individual patient. In this paper we have described the process of idea development and application design, feasibility assessment using a phone survey, a preliminary evaluation on 6 healthy individuals and early results of a clinical trial, which is still an ongoing study. Results suggest that applied approximative approach (Shepard's method of 6-dimensional metric interpolation) has a potential to predict the fettle accurately; as shown in leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV).
Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Konrad
K
Stawiski
Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Alicja
A
Strzałka
Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Anna
A
Puła
Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland.
Krzysztof
K
Bijakowski
D002908:Chronic Disease; D015930:Diet Records; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000178:diet therapy*; D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications; D044623:Nutrition Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011044:Poland; D011381:Programming Languages; D017010:Reminder Systems; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods*; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface