A Machine Learning Approach for Mortality Prediction in COVID-19 Pneumonia: Development and Evaluation of the Piacenza Score

Geza Halasz   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Michela Sperti   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Matteo Villani   ³ , MD ;   Umberto Michelucci   ⁴ , PhD ;   Piergiuseppe Agostoni   ⁵ , MD ;   Andrea Biagi   ¹ , MD ;   Luca Rossi   ¹ , MD ;   Andrea Botti   ⁶ , MD ;   Chiara Mari   ⁶ , MD ;   Marco Maccarini   ⁷ , MSc ;   Filippo Pura   ⁷ , MSc ;   Loris Roveda   ⁷ , MSc ;   Alessia Nardecchia   ⁸ , PhD ;   Emanuele Mottola   ⁹ , BA ;   Massimo Nolli   ³ , MD ;   Elisabetta Salvioni   ⁵ , MD ;   Massimo Mapelli   ⁵ , MD ;   Marco Agostino Deriu   ² , PhD ;   Dario Piga   ⁷ , PhD ;   Massimo Piepoli   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Cardiology, Guglielmo Da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy

² PolitoBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

³ Anesthesiology and ICU Department, Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy

⁴ TOELT LLC - AI Research and Development, Dubendorf, Switzerland

⁵ Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Milano, Italy

⁶ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

⁷ Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Università della Svizzera italiana/Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

⁸ Istituto Istruzione Superiore, Casalpusterlengo, Italy

⁹ 7HC SRL, Rome, Italy

*these authors contributed equally