Chapter 5 Machine Learning

Author: Hubert Baniecki

An ever-growing domain of machine learning decision systems in medicine has crossed ways with the COVID-19 pandemic. Precariously, a vast majority of the proposed predictive models focus on achieving high performance; while overlooking comprehensive validation. Nowadays, providing representative data, model explainability, even bias detection become mandatory for responsible prediction making in high-stakes medical applications.

The following short papers introduce new views into the already published work on the topic of patients’ COVID-19 mortality prognosis using supervised machine learning:

1. Validation and comparison of COVID-19 mortatility prediction models on multi-source data. Michał Komorowski, Przemysław Olender, Piotr Sieńko, Konrad Welkier
2. One model to fit them all: COVID-19 survival prediction using multinational data. Marcelina Kurek, Mateusz Stączek, Jakub Wiśniewski, Hanna Zdulska
3. Transparent machine learning to support predicting COVID-19 infection risk based on chronic diseases. Dawid Przybyliński, Hubert Ruczyński, Kinga Ulasik
4. Comparison of neural networks and tree-based models in the clinical prediction of the course of COVID-19 illness. Jakub Fołtyn, Kacper Grzymkowski, Konrad Komisarczyk