Development and Validation of an Interpretable Conformal Predictor to Predict Sepsis Mortality Risk: Retrospective Cohort Study

Meicheng Yang   ¹ , PhD ;   Hui Chen   ² , MD ;   Wenhan Hu   ² , PhD ;   Massimo Mischi   ³ , PhD ;   Caifeng Shan   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Jianqing Li   ^{1, 6 *} , PhD ;   Xi Long   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Chengyu Liu   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

² Department of Critical Care Medicine, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

³ Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

⁴ College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

⁵ School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

⁶ School of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

*these authors contributed equally