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. 2023 May 19;14:1130139. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1130139

Table 2.

ML applications in PE research.

Reference ML application Input ML technique Main output
(41) Disease prediction Metabolomics data LR AUC = 0.868, Se = 75.1% and Sp = 83.0%
(42) Disease prediction Proteomics data LDA AUC = 0.96, Se = 0.90 and Sp = 0.90 for early-onset cases with maternal vascular malperfusion
(26) Disease prediction Genomics data LR AUC = 0.825, Ac = 83.0%, Se = 81.7% and Sp = 83.3%
(43) Disease prediction Transcriptomics data and biochemical markers LR AUC = 0.940, Se = 86.67% and Sp = 96.67%
(44) Disease prediction Biochemical markers BPNN Ac = 79.8%
(45) Disease prediction Electronic health records Stochastic GB AUC = 0.924, Ac = 0.973, Se = 0.603, Sp = 0.991 and DR = 0.771 for late-onset cases
(46) Disease prediction Electronic health records EN AUC = 0.89, Se = 72.3% and Sp = 91.2% for early-onset cases
(47) Disease prediction Clinical and biochemical factors LR AUC = 0.962, Se = 79.3%, Sp = 97.7%, PPV = 92% and NPV = 93.4%
(48) Disease prediction Clinical and biochemical factors LR AUC = 0.68, Se = 30.6% and Sp = 90% for early-onset cases
(49) Disease prediction Clinical and biochemical factors RF AUC = 0.976, AUPR = 0.958, Ac = 92.6%, Se = 91% and Sp = 93% for placental dysfunction-related disorders
(50) Disease prediction Clinical parameters RF AUC = 0.90, Se = 0.70, Sp = 0.89 and Pr = 0.88
(51) Disease prediction Ultrasound images CNN Se = 70.6% and Sp = 76.6% for hypertension disorders of pregnancy
(52) Biomarker discovery Genomics data SVM IL7R, IL18, CCL2, HLA-DRA, CD247, ITK, CD2, IRF8, CD48, GZMK, CCR7, HLA-DPA1, LEP, IL1B, CD8A, CD3D and GZMA as novel biomarkers
(53) Biomarker discovery Transcriptomics data C4.5, AB and MLP HTRA4, PROCR, MYCN, ERO1A, EAF1, PPP1R16B, CRH, FLNB, PIK3CB, PLAAT3, FBN2, RFLNB, and TKT as novel biomarkers
(54) Risk estimation Food frequency questionnaire data SL 3.2 and 4.0 fewer cases of PE per 100 births for high density fruit and vegetable intake
(55) Drug screening Drug databases information TPOTC Estradiol, estriol, vitamins E and D, lynestrenol, mifrepristone, simvastatin, ambroxol, and some antibiotics and antiparasitics as potential drugs for PE

ML, machine learning; PE, preeclampsia; LR, logistic regression; LDA, linear discriminant analysis; BPNN, back-propagation neural networks; GB, gradient boosting; EN, elastic net; RF, random forest; CNN, convolutional neural networks; SVM, support vector machines; AB, adaptative boosting; MLP, multilayer perceptron; SL, SuperLearner; TPOTC, tree-based pipeline optimization tool classifier; AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; Se, sensitivity; Sp, specificity; Ac, accuracy; DR, detection rate; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value; AUPR, area under the precision-recall curve; Pr, precision.