Machine-learning-based prediction by stacking ensemble strategy for surgical outcomes in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy.

Journal: Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Machine learning (ML) is extensively employed for forecasting the outcome of various illnesses. The objective of the study was to develop ML based classifiers using a stacking ensemble strategy to predict the Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) recovery rate for patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM).

Authors

  • Zhiwei Cai
    Department of Orthopedics, The Forth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100142, China.
  • Quan Sun
    Department of Orthopedics, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, 441000, Hubei, China.
  • Chao Li
    McGill University Health Centre, McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
  • Jin Xu
    Key Laboratory of Advanced Theory and Application in Statistics and Data Science-MOE, and School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
  • Bo Jiang
    Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China. 111501206@njfu.edu.cn.