Comparison of machine learning algorithms applied to symptoms to determine infectious causes of death in children: national survey of 18,000 verbal autopsies in the Million Death Study in India

Table 2 Comparison of the prediction accuracy of ML-based algorithms for six diseases

ML algorithms	Pneumonia	Diarrhoeal diseases	Malaria	Meningitis/ encephalitis	Measles	Fever of unknown origin
SVM	0.90	0.97	0.91	0.80	0.92	0.87
GBM	0.90	0.97	0.92	0.80	0.92	0.79
C5	0.89	0.97	0.90	0.80	0.92	0.87
ANN	0.89	0.96	0.90	0.79	0.93	0.88
kNN	0.89	0.96	0.91	0.75	0.93	0.87
CART	0.87	0.96	0.83	0.75	0.92	0.81

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