Table 1.
Related work in the literature.
| Study | Prediction methods | Sample | Sample size, n | Outcomes | AUROCa, best (95% CI) | AUROC, best (outcome) |
| Gupta et al [11], 2022 | Stepwise logistic regression, gradient boosting, and random forest | Pediatric Heart Transplant Society database; aged <18 years; heart transplantation; discernible discharge date; transplanted between January 2005 to December 2018 | 4414 | Prolonged length of stay (>30 days) after transplantation | 0.750 (0.720-0.780) | N/Ab |
| Killian et al [15], 2021 | Logistic regression, multilayer perceptron, sequential minimal optimization algorithm polynomial kernel, random forest, and deep learning | UNOSc data for a single transplant center; aged 0-18 years; heart transplant; transplanted between 1988 and May 31, 2017 | 193 | Hospitalization owing to rejection over 1-, 3-, and 5-year posttransplant periods | N/A | 0.740 (5‐year hospitalization) |
| Miller et al [12], 2019 | Artificial neural networks, classification and regression trees, and random forest | UNOS data; aged <18 years; heart transplant; transplanted between January 2006 and December 2016 | 2802 | Mortality over 1-, 3-, and 5-year posttransplant periods | N/A | 0.720 (1‐year mortality) |
| Miller et al [22], 2022 | Random forest, XGBoostd, and L2 regularized logistic regression | UNOS data; aged <18 years; heart transplant; transplanted between January 1994 and December 2016 | 8349 | 1-year and 90-day all-cause mortality | 0.836 (0.823-0.849) | N/A |
aAUROC: area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.
bN/A: not applicable.
cUNOS: United Network for Organ Sharing.
dXGBoost: extreme gradient boosting.