A Questionnaire-Based Ensemble Learning Model to Predict the Diagnosis of Vertigo: Model Development and Validation Study

Fangzhou Yu   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Peixia Wu   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Haowen Deng   ^{3 *} , BMS ;   Jingfang Wu   ^{1, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Shan Sun   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Huiqian Yu   ^{1, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Jianming Yang   ⁷ , MMed ;   Xianyang Luo   ⁸ , MMed ;   Jing He   ⁸ , MMed ;   Xiulan Ma   ⁹ , MD ;   Junxiong Wen   ⁹ , MMed ;   Danhong Qiu   ¹⁰ , MMed ;   Guohui Nie   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Rizhao Liu   ¹¹ , MMed ;   Guohua Hu   ¹² , PhD ;   Tao Chen   ¹² , PhD ;   Cheng Zhang   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Huawei Li   ^{1, 4, 5, 6, 13 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

² Nursing Department, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

³ Department of Information Management and Information Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

⁴ State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Ministry of Education Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

⁵ National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Hearing Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

⁶ Institutes of Brain Science and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

⁸ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

⁹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

¹⁰ Department of Otolaryngology, Shanghai Pudong Hospital, Shanghai, China

¹¹ Department of Otolaryngology, Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China

¹² Department of Otolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

¹³ Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

*these authors contributed equally