Review Article

Modern Machine-Learning Predictive Models for Diagnosing Infectious Diseases

Table 1

Comparison of related systematic reviews and our systematic review.

ReferenceFocusDifferences

[5](i) Diagnosing COVID-19 and predicting severity and mortality risks(i) The review is based only on clinical and laboratory data.
[6](i) Diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19 from prediction models.(i) The review focuses more on preprints
(ii) It covers all types of models including risk prediction, diagnosis of severity, and diagnosis from images
[7](i) Diagnosing hepatitis(i) It covers only clinical tests.
[8](i) Detecting pneumonia(i) It is based only on signs and symptoms
(ii) Performance measures are not covered
[9](i) Diagnosing tuberculosis(i) It covers diverse AI approaches using clinical signs and symptoms and radiological images.
[10](i) Diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis(i) It covers AI methods based on chest X-ray images.
[11](i) Diagnosing tuberculous meningitis(i) It is based only on clinical and laboratory data.
[12](i) Predicting phenotypic characteristics of influenza virus(i) It is based on genomic or proteomic input.
[13](i) Diagnosing HIV, HCV, and chlamydia(i) It implements different digital technology but does not include any kind of AI technique.
[14](i) Diagnosing COVID-19, hepatitis, sepsis, malaria, Lyme disease, and tuberculosis(i) It covers data coming from EMR.
[15](i) Automatic diagnosis of several infections such as sepsis, general infections, and Clostridium difficile infection through ML and expert system(i) It covers papers based on physiological data.
[16](i) Diagnosing infectious and noninfectious diseases through ML(i) It explains in detail all reviewed ML algorithms but does not mention datasets or performance measures.
Our review(i) ML diagnosis of all available human infectious disease papers(i) It covers different kinds of ML techniques, several types of datasets, and performance measures.

HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; HCV: hepatitis C virus; EMR: electronic medical record.