Figure 3.

ROC curve of the SVM algorithm to predict 7-day mortality, by excluding infected patients. This curve shows the predictive performance of the SVM algorithm including SAPS II, sex, patient’s origin, type of ICU admission, non-surgical treatment for acute coronary disease, surgical intervention, presence of invasive devices at ICU admission, trauma, impaired immunity, antibiotic therapy in 48 h before or after ICU admission. The parameters applied to the SVM algorithm were C = 2 and $\gamma =0.4$.