Research Article

Maximizing Interpretability and Cost-Effectiveness of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Predictive Models Using Feature-Specific Regularized Logistic Regression on Preoperative Temporal Data

Table 2

Summary of SSI classification results for basic lasso model (BLM), full lasso model (FLM), price penalized model (PPM), and XGBoost predictive model.

ModelCRPBLMBLM ()FLMFLM ()PPMPPM ()XGBoost

Nr. features4.435.612.332.628.425.212.1
[4.2, 4.6][33.1, 38.2][11.8, 12.9][30.2, 35.0][27.1, 29.6][22.9, 27.5][11.7, 12.6]

AUC0.7970.9470.9430.9540.9560.9520.9510.954
[0.788, 0.806][0.944, 0.951][0.940, 0.947][0.951, 0.958][0.953, 0.959][0.948, 0.955][0.948, 0.954][0.951, 0.957]

AUPRC0.5500.8090.8100.8190.8210.8130.8170.829
[0.532, 0.568][0.798,0.821][0.799,0.822][0.807, 0.830][0.810, 0.832][0.801,0.824][0.805–0.828][0.818, 0.839]

Threshold0.2040.1880.1790.2210.2160.1910.1710.245
[0.201–0.207][0.183–0.193][0.176–0.182][0.216–0.226][0.211–0.220][0.186–0.196][0.167–0.175][0.237–0.252]

Sensitivity0.6990.8580.8560.8560.8600.8680.8740.836
[0.683, 0.715][0.846, 0.870][0.844, 0.868][0.845, 0.867][0.848, 0.871][0.857, 0.879][0.864, 0.885][0.824, 0.847]

Specificity0.7990.8950.8850.9020.9010.8880.8760.919
[0.791, 0.808][0.891, 0.900][0.879, 0.891][0.896, 0.907][0.895, 0.906][0.882, 0.894][0.869, 0.882][0.915, 0.924]

PPV0.4690.6730.6540.6880.6870.6630.6410.724
[0.454, 0.483][0.661, 0.684][0.640, 0.667][0.673, 0.703][0.673, 0.701][0.647, 0.678][0.628, 0.655][0.710, 0.739]

NPV0.9140.9620.9610.9620.9620.9640.9660.957
[0.910, 0.919][0.958, 0.965][0.958, 0.964][0.958, 0.965][0.959, 0.966][0.961, 0.967][0.963, 0.969][0.954, 0.960]