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Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has wreaked havoc globally, resulting in millions of cases and deaths. The objective of this study was to predict mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Zambia using machine learning (ML) methods based on factors that have been shown to be predictive o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37260675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/8921220 |
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author | Mulenga, Clyde Kaonga, Patrick Hamoonga, Raymond Mazaba, Mazyanga Lucy Chabala, Freeman Musonda, Patrick |
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description | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has wreaked havoc globally, resulting in millions of cases and deaths. The objective of this study was to predict mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Zambia using machine learning (ML) methods based on factors that have been shown to be predictive of mortality and thereby improve pandemic preparedness. This research employed seven powerful ML models that included decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), logistic regression (LR), Naïve Bayes (NB), gradient boosting (GB), and XGBoost (XGB). These classifiers were trained on 1,433 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from various health facilities in Zambia. The performances achieved by these models were checked using accuracy, recall, F1-Score, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC_AUC), area under the precision-recall curve (PRC_AUC), and other metrics. The best-performing model was the XGB which had an accuracy of 92.3%, recall of 94.2%, F1-Score of 92.4%, and ROC_AUC of 97.5%. The pairwise Mann–Whitney U-test analysis showed that the second-best model (GB) and the third-best model (RF) did not perform significantly worse than the best model (XGB) and had the following: GB had an accuracy of 91.7%, recall of 94.2%, F1-Score of 91.9%, and ROC_AUC of 97.1%. RF had an accuracy of 90.8%, recall of 93.6%, F1-Score of 91.0%, and ROC_AUC of 96.8%. Other models showed similar results for the same metrics checked. The study successfully derived and validated the selected ML models and predicted mortality effectively with reasonably high performance in the stated metrics. The feature importance analysis found that knowledge of underlying health conditions about patients' hospital length of stay (LOS), white blood cell count, age, and other factors can help healthcare providers offer lifesaving services on time, improve pandemic preparedness, and decongest health facilities in Zambia and other countries with similar settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-102282262023-05-31 Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning Mulenga, Clyde Kaonga, Patrick Hamoonga, Raymond Mazaba, Mazyanga Lucy Chabala, Freeman Musonda, Patrick Glob Health Epidemiol Genom Research Article The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has wreaked havoc globally, resulting in millions of cases and deaths. The objective of this study was to predict mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Zambia using machine learning (ML) methods based on factors that have been shown to be predictive of mortality and thereby improve pandemic preparedness. This research employed seven powerful ML models that included decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), logistic regression (LR), Naïve Bayes (NB), gradient boosting (GB), and XGBoost (XGB). These classifiers were trained on 1,433 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from various health facilities in Zambia. The performances achieved by these models were checked using accuracy, recall, F1-Score, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC_AUC), area under the precision-recall curve (PRC_AUC), and other metrics. The best-performing model was the XGB which had an accuracy of 92.3%, recall of 94.2%, F1-Score of 92.4%, and ROC_AUC of 97.5%. The pairwise Mann–Whitney U-test analysis showed that the second-best model (GB) and the third-best model (RF) did not perform significantly worse than the best model (XGB) and had the following: GB had an accuracy of 91.7%, recall of 94.2%, F1-Score of 91.9%, and ROC_AUC of 97.1%. RF had an accuracy of 90.8%, recall of 93.6%, F1-Score of 91.0%, and ROC_AUC of 96.8%. Other models showed similar results for the same metrics checked. The study successfully derived and validated the selected ML models and predicted mortality effectively with reasonably high performance in the stated metrics. The feature importance analysis found that knowledge of underlying health conditions about patients' hospital length of stay (LOS), white blood cell count, age, and other factors can help healthcare providers offer lifesaving services on time, improve pandemic preparedness, and decongest health facilities in Zambia and other countries with similar settings. Hindawi 2023-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10228226/ /pubmed/37260675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/8921220 Text en Copyright © 2023 Clyde Mulenga et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mulenga, Clyde Kaonga, Patrick Hamoonga, Raymond Mazaba, Mazyanga Lucy Chabala, Freeman Musonda, Patrick Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning |
title | Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning |
title_full | Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning |
title_fullStr | Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning |
title_full_unstemmed | Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning |
title_short | Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Zambia: An Application of Machine Learning |
title_sort | predicting mortality in hospitalized covid-19 patients in zambia: an application of machine learning |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37260675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/8921220 |
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