Machine learning algorithms for predicting determinants of COVID-19 mortality in South Africa

COVID-19 has strained healthcare resources, necessitating efficient prognostication to triage patients effectively. This study quantified COVID-19 risk factors and predicted COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) mortality in South Africa based on machine learning algorithms. Data for this study were ob...

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Published in:	Frontiers in artificial intelligence Vol. 6; p. 1171256
Main Authors:	Chimbunde, Emmanuel, Sigwadhi, Lovemore N, Tamuzi, Jacques L, Okango, Elphas L, Daramola, Olawande, Ngah, Veranyuy D, Nyasulu, Peter S
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 10-10-2023
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence artificial neural network COVID-19 K-means clustering machine learning multilayer perceptron COVID-19 multilayer perceptron artificial neural network machine learning K-means clustering
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Summary:	COVID-19 has strained healthcare resources, necessitating efficient prognostication to triage patients effectively. This study quantified COVID-19 risk factors and predicted COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) mortality in South Africa based on machine learning algorithms. Data for this study were obtained from 392 COVID-19 ICU patients enrolled between 26 March 2020 and 10 February 2021. We used an artificial neural network (ANN) and random forest (RF) to predict mortality among ICU patients and a semi-parametric logistic regression with nine covariates, including a grouping variable based on -means clustering. Further evaluation of the algorithms was performed using sensitivity, accuracy, specificity, and Cohen's statistics. From the semi-parametric logistic regression and ANN variable importance, age, gender, cluster, presence of severe symptoms, being on the ventilator, and comorbidities of asthma significantly contributed to ICU death. In particular, the odds of mortality were six times higher among asthmatic patients than non-asthmatic patients. In univariable and multivariate regression, advanced age, PF1 and 2, FiO , severe symptoms, asthma, oxygen saturation, and cluster 4 were strongly predictive of mortality. The RF model revealed that intubation status, age, cluster, diabetes, and hypertension were the top five significant predictors of mortality. The ANN performed well with an accuracy of 71%, a precision of 83%, an F1 score of 100%, Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC) score of 100%, and a recall of 88%. In addition, Cohen's -value of 0.75 verified the most extreme discriminative power of the ANN. In comparison, the RF model provided a 76% recall, an 87% precision, and a 65% MCC. Based on the findings, we can conclude that both ANN and RF can predict COVID-19 mortality in the ICU with accuracy. The proposed models accurately predict the prognosis of COVID-19 patients after diagnosis. The models can be used to prioritize COVID-19 patients with a high mortality risk in resource-constrained ICUs.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Alexander Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada Reviewed by: Tiago Almeida de Oliveira, State University of Paraíba, Brazil; Pengcheng Xi, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada
ISSN:	2624-8212 2624-8212
DOI:	10.3389/frai.2023.1171256