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. 2021 Mar 10;6(6):1–9. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2021.0122

Table 2. Performance Characteristics of Models for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Characteristic Logistic regression LASSO Neural network XGBoost Meta-classifier
Variables included in the model of McNamara et al21
Model performance metrics
AUROC (95% CI) 0.878 (0.875-0.881) 0.874 (0.870-0.879) 0.874 (0.870-0.878) 0.886 (0.882-0.890) 0.886 (0.882-0.890)
Precision-recall AUC 0.372 0.367 0.371 0.395 0.398
F score 0.415 0.408 0.411 0.432 0.432
Sensitivity 0.42 (0.41-0.43) 0.43 (0.42-0.45) 0.41 (0.40-0.42) 0.44 (0.43-0.45) 0.43 (0.42-0.44)
Specificity 0.97 (0.97-0.97) 0.97 (0.97-0.97) 0.97 (0.97-0.97) 0.97 (0.97-0.97) 0.98 (0.97-0.98)
PPV 0.41 (0.40-0.42) 0.38 (0.37-0.39) 0.41 (0.40-0.42) 0.42 (0.41-0.43) 0.44 (0.43-0.45)
NPV 0.97 (0.97-0.97) 0.97 (0.97-0.98) 0.97 (0.97-0.97) 0.98 (0.97-0.98) 0.97 (0.97-0.98)
Brier score
Reliability, mean (SD), ×10−6 28.4 (9.2) 96.3 (16.5) 224.0 (26.1) 9.5 (3.8) 2.3 (2.1)
Resolution, mean (SD), ×10−3 5.6 (0.1) 5.5 (0.1) 5.4 (0.1) 5.8 (0.1) 5.9 (0.1)
Uncertainty 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04
Overall, ×10−2 3.52 3.54 3.56 3.49 3.48
Expanded variables included from the CP-MI Registry
Model performance metrics
AUROC (95% CI) 0.888 (0.884-0.892) 0.886 (0.882-0.890) 0.885 (0.881-0.889) 0.898 (0.894-0.902) 0.899 (0.895-0.903)
Precision-recall AUC 0.421 0.415 0.406 0.451 0.453
F score 0.436 0.436 0.428 0.458 0.459
Sensitivity 0.47 (0.45-0.48) 0.42 (0.41-0.43) 0.43 (0.42-0.44) 0.45 (0.44-0.47) 0.43 (0.42-0.44)
Specificity 0.97 (0.97-0.97) 0.98 (0.98-0.98) 0.97 (0.97-0.98) 0.98 (0.98-0.98) 0.98 (0.98-0.98)
PPV 0.41 (0.40-0.42) 0.45 (0.44-0.46) 0.43 (0.42-0.44) 0.46 (0.45-0.47) 0.49 (0.48-0.50)
NPV 0.98 (0.98-0.98) 0.97 (0.97-0.98) 0.97 (0.97-0.98) 0.98 (0.98-0.98) 0.97 (0.97-0.98)
Brier score
Reliability, mean (SD), ×10−6 229.4 (25.6) 40.6 (10.3) 55.7 (11.2) 6.5 (3.5) 4.3 (2.6)
Resolution, mean (SD), ×10−3 6.0 (0.1) 5.9 (0.1) 5.8 (0.1) 6.4 (0.2) 6.5 (0.2)
Uncertainty 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04
Overall, ×10−2 3.50 3.49 3.50 3.43 3.42

Abbreviations: AUROC, area under the receiver operator characteristic curve; AUC, area under curve; CP-MI Registry, National Cardiovascular Data Registry’s Chest Pain–MI Registry; LASSO, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator; NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value.