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Infectious Diseases

Early diagnosis of candidemia with explainable machine learning on automatically extracted laboratory and microbiological data: results of the AUTO-CAND project

Daniele Roberto Giacobbea Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cristina Marellib Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-1819View further author information
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Sara Morac Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Sabrina Guastavinod Department of Mathematics (DIMA), University of Genoa, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Chiara Russoa Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Giorgia Bruccia Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Alessandro Limongellia Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Antonio Venaa Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Malgorzata Mikulskaa Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Maryam Tayefie Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research, Tromsø, NorwayView further author information
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Stefano Pelusof Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan - Bicocca, Milan, ItalyView further author information
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Alessio Signorig Section of Biostatistics, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Antonio Di Biagioa Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Anna Marcheseh Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics (DISC), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;i Microbiology Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Cristina Campid Department of Mathematics (DIMA), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;j Life Science Computational Laboratory (LISCOMP), IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Mauro Giacominic Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Genoa, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5646-2034View further author information
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Matteo Bassettia Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;b Clinica Malattie Infettive, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, ItalyView further author information
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Article: 2285454 | Received 24 Aug 2023, Accepted 13 Nov 2023, Published online: 27 Nov 2023

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