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Severity Assessment of COVID-19 based on Clinical and Imaging Data
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ABSTRACT
ObjectivesThis study aims to develop a machine learning approach for automated severity assessment of COVID-19 patients based on clinical and imaging data. Materials and MethodsClinical data--demographics, signs, symptoms, comorbidities and blood test results--and chest CT scans of 346 patients from two hospitals in the Hubei province, China, were used to develop machine learning models for automated severity assessment of diagnosed COVID-19 cases. We compared the predictive power of clinical and imaging data by testing multiple machine learning models, and further explored the use of four oversampling methods to address the imbalance distribution issue. Features with the highest predictive power were identified using the SHAP framework. ResultsTargeting differentiation between mild and severe cases, logistic regression models achieved the best performance on clinical features (AUC0.848, sensitivity0.455, specificity0.906), imaging features (AUC0.926, sensitivity0.818, specificity0.901) and the combined features (AUC0.950, sensitivity0.764, specificity0.919). The SMOTE oversampling method further improved the performance of the combined features to AUC of 0.960 (sensitivity0.845, specificity0.929). DiscussionImaging features had the strongest impact on the model output, while a combination of clinical and imaging features yielded the best performance overall. The identified predictive features were consistent with findings from previous studies. Oversampling yielded mixed results, although it achieved the best performance in our study. ConclusionsThis study indicates that clinical and imaging features can be used for automated severity assessment of COVID-19 patients and have the potential to assist with triaging COVID-19 patients and prioritizing care for patients at higher risk of severe cases.
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PREPRINT-MEDRXIV
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
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En
Year:
2020
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Preprint