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Xiaojing Ji¹, Yiran Guo¹, Lujia Tang¹

¹Department of Emergency, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China.

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This study identified two distinct COVID-19 subphenotypes: hypo-inflammatory and hyper-inflammatory. Machine learning accurately classified these phenotypes, aiding in risk stratification and personalized patient care for better outcomes.

Keywords:

COVID-19 K-prototypes clustering machine learning mortality prediction subphenotypes

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Area of Science:

Infectious Diseases
Immunology
Data Science

Background:

COVID-19 presents with significant clinical and biological heterogeneity.
Understanding diverse disease trajectories requires identifying distinct patient phenotypes.
Phenotyping can improve clinical practice and trial design for COVID-19.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify distinct COVID-19 subphenotypes using clinical data.
To develop a machine learning model for accurate subphenotype classification.
To determine key clinical variables for predicting COVID-19 subphenotypes and outcomes.

Main Methods:

Employed k-prototypes clustering on 50 clinical variables from 1376 adult COVID-19 patients.
Utilized machine learning algorithms to identify key classifier variables for phenotype recognition.
Applied the AdaBoost model for subphenotype prediction and performance evaluation.

Main Results:

Identified two distinct subphenotypes: Hypo-inflammatory (59.9%) and Hyper-inflammatory (40.1%).
Hypo-inflammatory patients had lower mortality and shorter hospital stays; Hyper-inflammatory patients were older, male, with higher mortality and organ dysfunction.
The AdaBoost model achieved high accuracy (0.975) in subphenotype prediction, with "CRP", "IL-2R", and "D-dimer" as key predictors.

Conclusions:

Two COVID-19 phenotypes were identified, accurately classifiable by machine learning models.
The identified subphenotypes can guide risk stratification and clinical management strategies.
Key biomarkers like CRP, IL-2R, and D-dimer are crucial for predicting subphenotypes and patient outcomes.