Table 2 Results from test data for top 3 models predicting short- and long-term mortality.

From: Development and validation of prognostic machine learning models for short- and long-term mortality among acutely admitted patients based on blood tests

 

AUC

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

Number of variables

3-day Mortality

 Naive bayes

0.91 [0.91—0.91]

0.92 [0.91—0.92]

0.78 [0.78—0.79]

0.03 [0.3–0.3]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

15

 Linear discriminant analysis

0.93 [0.93—0.93]

0.89 [0.86—0.89]

0.83 [0.82—0.83]

0.04 [0.4–0.5]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

15

 Logistic regression

0.93 [0.93—0.93]

0.85 [0.83—0.86]

0.85 [0.84—0.89]

0.04 [0.4–0.4]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

15

10-day mortality

 Linear discriminant analysis

0.91 [0.90—0.91]

0.90 [0.87—0.93]

0.78 [0.78—0.79]

0.1 [0.09—0.11]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

10

 Logistic regression

0.91 [0.89—0.93]

0.90 [0.87—0.93]

0.79 [0.79—0.79]

0.1 [0.09—0.11]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

10

 Quadratic discriminant analysis

0.90 [0.90 –0.90]

0.91 [0.87—0.93]

0.77 [0.76—0.77]

0.1 [0.08—0.10]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

10

30-day Mortality

 Linear discriminant analysis

0.90 [090—0.90]

0.90 [0.87—0.92]

0.78 [0.77- 0.79]

0.19 [0.18–0.21]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

10

 Quadratic discriminant analysis

0.91 [0.89—0.91]

0.89 [0.86—0.91]

0.76 [0.75—077]

0.18 [0.17—0.19]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

10

 Gradient boosting classifier

0.92 [0.92—0.92]

0.86 [0.84—0.89]

0.82 [0.82—0.83]

0.22 [0.21—0.24]

0.99 [0.99—0.99]

10

365-day mortality

 Gradient boosting classifier

0.88 [0.88—0.89]

0.82 [0.81—0.83]

0.77 [0.76—0.77]

0.44 [0.43—0.46]

0.96 [0.95—0.99]

10

 Light gradient boosting machine

0.89 [0.89—0.89]

0.80 [0.80—0.81]

0.81 [0.80—0.82]

0.46 [0.44—0.49]

0.95 [0.95—0.98]

15

 Quadratic discriminant analysis

0.87 [0.87—0.89]

0.85 [0.84—0.89]

0.74 [0.73—0.75]

0.40 [0.40—0.41]

0.96 [0.95—0.99]

15

  1. AUC, mean area under receiver operating curve. The numbers are presented as mean with 95%-confidence; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.