Evaluation of Machine Learning-based Patient Outcome Prediction Using Patient-specific Difficulty and Discrimination Indices
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Given the extensive use of machine learning in patient outcome prediction, and the understanding that the challenging nature of predictions in this field may considerably modify the performance of predictive models, research in this area requires some forms of context-sensitive performance metrics. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), precision, recall, specificity, and F1 are widely used measures of performance for patient outcome prediction. These metrics have several merits: they are easy to interpret and do not need any subjective input from the user. However, they weight all samples equally and do not adequately reflect the ability of predictive models in classifying difficult samples. In this paper, we propose the Difficulty Weight Adjustment (DWA) algorithm, a simple method that incorporates the difficulty level of samples when evaluating predictive models. Using a large dataset of 139,367 unique ICU admissions within the eICU Collaborative Research Database (eICU-CRD), we show that the classification difficulty and the discrimination ability of samples are critical aspects that need to be considered when comparing machine learning models that predict patient outcomes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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