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Table 3 Feature importance rank for the machine learning models. The mean contribution for each feature as percentages is shown in parentheses. The combined contribution of the top 5, 10, and 15 feature are shown in bold face

From: Comparison of correctly and incorrectly classified patients for in-hospital mortality prediction in the intensive care unit

Rank

XGB

ADA

LR

1

Age (0.096)

Age (0.106)

Age (0.096)

2

Vent (0.089)

Vent (0.077)

Source\(^b\) (0.084)

3

Verbal (0.077)

HR (0.068)

Vent (0.075)

4

BUN (0.068)

BUN (0.057)

Adx (0.067)

5

Motor (0.058)

Elective\(^a\) (0.051)

HR (0.061)

Top 5

0.390

0.360

0.382

6

HR (0.055)

Temp (0.051)

Verbal (0.057)

7

RR (0.049)

Verbal (0.050)

RR (0.053)

8

WBC (0.041)

WBC (0.049)

Eyes (0.051)

9

Temp (0.040)

RR (0.049)

BUN (0.045)

10

Adx (0.038)

Source\(^b\) (0.043)

Op/Non-Op (0.040)

Top 10

0.613

0.602

0.628

11

Elective\(^a\) (0.034)

Motor (0.036)

Motor (0.039)

12

Mean BP (0.028)

Adx (0.034)

Albumin (0.038)

13

Source\(^b\) (0.028)

FiO2 (0.29)

WBC (0.030)

14

Creatinine (0.026)

Mean BP (0.029)

Intubated (0.029)

15

Eyes (0.026)

Sodium (0.028)

Temp (0.027)

Top 15

0.754

0.758

0.791

  1. Abbreviations Adx Admission diagnosis, BP Blood pressure, HR Heartrate, Op/Non-Op Operative/Non-operative, RR Respiratory rate, Temp Temperature
  2. \(^a\)Elective surgery, \(^b\)Unit admit source