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. 2022 Mar 2;37(Suppl 2):248–258. doi: 10.1007/s12028-022-01449-8

Table 2.

Predictive values of the prediction algorithms, including 95% CIs, for the prediction of good and poor outcome at 12 and 24 h after cardiac arrest for the internal and external validation tests

Parameter Internal validation External validation
Logistic regression Random forest Convolutional neural network Logistic regression Random forest Convolutional neural network
Prediction of good outcome
Predictive threshold for > 90% specificity at 12 h 0.79 0.91 0.62 0.79 0.91 0.62
Sensitivity at 12 h in % (CI) 51 (32 to 70) 51 (10 to 92) 67 (34 to 100) 83 (83 to 83) 1 (0 to 4) 78 (52 to 100)
FPR at 12 h in % (CI) 9 (0 to 19) 12 (0 to 29) 13 (0 to 29) 3 (3 to 3) 0 (0 to 0) 12 (0 to 24)
Predictive threshold for > 90% specificity at 24 h 0.71 0.94 0.62 0.71 0.94 0.62
Sensitivity at 24 h in % (CI) 56 (39 to 73) 48 (20 to 75) 71 (59 to 83) 66 (55 to 76) 0 (0 to 0) 81 (72 to 90)
FPR at 24 h in % (CI) 10 (0 to 21) 14 (8 to 20) 14 (3 to 25) 17 (12 to 22) 0 (0 to 0) 22 (14 to 30)
Prediction of poor outcome
Predictive threshold for > 99% specificity at 12 h 0.02 0.06 0.16 0.02 0.06 0.16
Sensitivity at 12 h in % (CI) 51 (30 to 72) 28 (0 to 63) 49 (18 to 81) 75 (75 to 75) 56 (31 to 81) 57 (43 to 71)
FPR at 12 h in % (CI) 1 (0 to 5) 4 (0 to 16) 1 (0 to 4) 3 (3 to 3) 3 (3 to 3) 3 (3 to 3)
Predictive threshold for > 99% specificity at 24 h 0.10 0.03 0.17 0.10 0.03 0.17
Sensitivity at 24 h in % (CI) 40 (24 to 55) 15 (5 to 24) 55 (34 to 76) 33 (33 to 33) 13 (0 to 50) 54 (44 to 64)
FPR at 24 h in % (CI) 1 (0 to 4) 3 (0 to 9) 2 (0 to 9) 0 (0 to 0) 0 (0 to 2) 0 (0 to 2)

CI, Confidence interval, FPR, false positive rate