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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Risk of Hard-to-Heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers in a Chinese Population

Shiqi Wang1 Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of ChinaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-8893View further author information
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Chao Xia2 Department of Orthopedics, Air Force Hospital of Eastern Theater Command, Nanjing, People’s Republic of ChinaView further author information
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Qirui Zheng3 Software Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of ChinaView further author information
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Aiping Wang4 Department of Endocrinology, Air Force Hospital of Eastern Theater Command, Nanjing, People's Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Qian Tan1 Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 3347-3359 | Received 01 Aug 2022, Accepted 20 Oct 2022, Published online: 29 Oct 2022

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Figure 1 (A) Workflow of the study; (B) Flowchart of patient selection.

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve; AdaBoost, adaptive boosting; DFU, diabetic foot ulcer; GLM, generalized linear model; KNN, k-nearest neighbor; NB, naïve Bayes; PAR, percent area reduction; RF, random forest; SVM, support vector machine.
Figure 1 (A) Workflow of the study; (B) Flowchart of patient selection.

Table 1 Differences Between Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Healed and Hard-to-Heal Groups

Table 2 Prediction Factors for Hard-to-Heal in DFUs

Figure 2 Confusion matrix of the risk prediction models with machine learning algorithms. (A) AdaBoost: adaptive boosting; (B) GLM: general linear regression; (C) KNN: k-nearest neighbor; (D) NB: naïve Bayes; (E) RF: random forest; (F) SVM: support vector machine.

Figure 2 Confusion matrix of the risk prediction models with machine learning algorithms. (A) AdaBoost: adaptive boosting; (B) GLM: general linear regression; (C) KNN: k-nearest neighbor; (D) NB: naïve Bayes; (E) RF: random forest; (F) SVM: support vector machine.

Table 3 The Comparisons of Machine Learning Algorithms

Figure 3 ROC curves for predicting hard-to-heal in DFU patients with machine learning algorithms.

Abbreviations: AdaBoost, adaptive boosting; AUC, area under the curve; DFUs, diabetic foot ulcers; GLM, general linear regression; KNN, k-nearest neighbor; NB, naïve Bayesian; RF, random forest; ROC, Receiver operating characteristic; SVM, support vector machine.
Figure 3 ROC curves for predicting hard-to-heal in DFU patients with machine learning algorithms.

Figure 4 The values of evaluation metrics of six machine learning algorithms.

Abbreviations: AdaBoost, adaptive boosting; AUC, area under the curve; GLM, general linear regression; KNN, k-nearest neighbor; NB, naïve Bayesian; RF, random forest; SVM, support vector machine.
Figure 4 The values of evaluation metrics of six machine learning algorithms.

Figure 5 Feature importance ranking of the included feature of the naïve Bayesian model.

Abbreviations: CRP, C-reactive protein.
Figure 5 Feature importance ranking of the included feature of the naïve Bayesian model.

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