Predicting the 28-day prognosis of acute-on-chronic liver failure patients based on machine learning
Shaotian Qiu1, Yumeng Zhao2, Jiaxuan Hu1
1The School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Union Medical Center Affiliated to Nankai University, Tianjin 300121, China.
Background:
We aimed to establish a prognostic predictive model based on machine learning (ML) methods to predict the 28-day mortality of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) patients, and to evaluate treatment effectiveness.
Methods:
ACLF patients from six tertiary hospitals were included for analysis. Features for ML models' development were selected by LASSO regression. Models' performance was evaluated by area under the curve (AUC) and accuracy. Shapley additive explanation was used to explain the ML model.
Results:
Of the 736 included patients, 587 were assigned to a training set and 149 to an external validation set. Features selected included age, hepatic encephalopathy, total bilirubin, PTA, and creatinine. The eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) model outperformed other ML models in the prognostic prediction of ACLF patients, with the highest AUC and accuracy. Delong's test demonstrated that the XGB model outperformed Child-Pugh score, MELD score, CLIF-SOFA, CLIF-C OF, and CLIF-C ACLF. Sequential assessments at baseline, day 3, day 7, and day 14 improved the predictive performance of the XGB-ML model and can help clinicians evaluate the effectiveness of medical treatment.
Conclusions:
We established an XGB-ML model to predict the 28-day mortality of ACLF patients as well as to evaluate the treatment effectiveness.
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