Machine Learning and Prediction of All-Cause Mortality in COPD

Would applying machine learning to clinical and quantitative CT imaging improve mortality prediction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? Among other methods, researchers used models in subjects with moderate to severe COPD from a subset of subjects in Genetic Epidemiology of COPD (COPDGene).

Results showed that performance of machine learning was similar to that of traditional statistical methods.

Reference: Moll M, Qiao D, Regan EA, Hunninghake GM, et al. Machine Learning and Prediction of All-Cause Mortality in COPD. Chest. 2020 Sep;158(3):952-964. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.02.079. Epub 2020 Apr 27. Erratum in: Chest. 2021 May;159(5):2123-2128. PMID: 32353417; PMCID: PMC7478228.

Link to article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32353417/