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Table 3 Statistical assessment of different classifiers [95% CI] at the respective cut-off-values for the XGBoost models

From: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the performance of machine learning algorithms for predicting perioperative mortality

training set

validation parameter

validation set

cut off from training set

pre-pandemic

1st wave

after 1st wave

2nd wave

after 2nd wave

06/2014–03/2020

04/2020–05/2020

06/2020–09/2020

10/2020–05/2021

06/2021–10/2021

pre-pandemic (model 1)

Sensitivity

0.722 [0.664–0.774]

0.773 [0.546–0.922]

0.672 [0.540–0.787]

0.760 [0.675–0.832]

0.677 [0.549–0.788]

0.1611

Specificity

0.927 [0.924–0.930]

0.894 [0.880–0.906]

0.932 [0.925–0.938]

0.921 [0.916–0.926]

0.940 [0.935–0.946]

PPV

0.086 [0.075–0.098]

0.067 [0.039–0.105]

0.085 [0.062–0.114]

0.091 [0.074–0.110]

0.085 [0.062–0.112]

NPV

0.997 [0.996–0.998]

0.997 [0.994–0.999]

0.997 [0.995–0.998]

0.997 [0.996–0.998]

0.997 [0.996–0.998]

F1 Score

0.153 [0.135–0.1723]

0.123 [0.07–0.173]

0.151 [0.107–0.192]

0.163 [0.134–0.191]

0.151 [0.109–0.190]

pre-pandemic + 1st wave (model 2)

Sensitivity

0.730 [0.660–0.792]

0.462 [0.192–0.749]

0.753 [0.685–0.812]

0.662 [0.534–0.774]

0.1805

Specificity

0.915 [0.912–0.919]

0.927 [0.911–0.941]

0.920 [0.916–0.923]

0.933 [0.927–0.938]

PPV

0.065 [0.055–0.076]

0.061 [0.023–0.129]

0.082 [0.069–0.096]

0.074 [0.054–0.099]

NPV

0.998 [0.997–0.998]

0.994 [0.988–0.998]

0.997 [0.997–0.998]

0.997 [0.996–0.998]

F1 Score

0.119 [0.101–0.138]

0.108 [0.027–0.180]

0.148 [0.128–0.179]

0.134 [0.095–0.166]

whole set (model 3)

Sensitivity

0.258 [0.204–0.319]

0.1296

Specificity

0.992 [0.991–0.993]

PPV

0.221 [0.173–0.275]

NPV

0.994 [0.992–0.994]

F1 Score

0.238 [0.185–0.288]