Comparison of Mortality Predictive Models of Sepsis Patients Based on Machine Learning.

Journal: Chinese medical sciences journal = Chung-kuo i hsueh k'o hsueh tsa chih
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Abstract

Objective To compare the performance of five machine learning models and SAPS II score in predicting the 30-day mortality amongst patients with sepsis. Methods The sepsis patient-related data were extracted from the MIMIC-IV database. Clinical features were generated and selected by mutual information and grid search. Logistic regression, Random forest, LightGBM, XGBoost, and other machine learning models were constructed to predict the mortality probability. Five measurements including accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and area under curve (AUC) were acquired for model evaluation. An external validation was implemented to avoid conclusion bias. Results LightGBM outperformed other methods, achieving the highest AUC (0.900), accuracy (0.808), and precision (0.559). All machine learning models performed better than SAPS II score (AUC=0.748). LightGBM achieved 0.883 in AUC in the external data validation. Conclusions The machine learning models are more effective in predicting the 30-day mortality of patients with sepsis than the traditional SAPS II score.

Authors

  • Zi-Yang Wang
    Institute of Medical Information/Medical Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100020, China.
  • Yu-Shan Lan
    Institute of Medical Information/Medical Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100020, China.
  • Zi-du Xu
    Institute of Medical Information/Medical Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100020, China.
  • Yao-Wen Gu
    Institute of Medical Information/Medical Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100020, China.
  • Jiao Li
    CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou 510301 China yinhao@scsio.ac.cn.