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. 2016 Jul;13(120):20160266. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0266

Table 1.

Sensitivity and specificity of severity determination. First, biomarkers are added individually, followed by combinations of pairs of the top three performing biomarkers. With five features, LR outperformed RF's sensitivity; with more features, RF delivered both greater sensitivity and specificity.

no. features features list sensitivity specificity
5a RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting 0.85 0.68
5b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting 0.72 0.82
6b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting + CRP 0.89 0.82
6b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting + Lcn2 0.87 0.8
6b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting + Hap 0.88 0.79
6b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting + CD163 0.88 0.77
7b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting + CRP + Lcn2 0.91 0.78
7b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting + CRP + Hap 0.91 0.83
7b RR, HR, Osat, crackles, grunting + Lcn2 + Hap 0.88 0.76

aClassification via LR.

bClassification via RF.