Evaluation of the Need for Intensive Care in Children With Pneumonia: Machine Learning Approach

Yun-Chung Liu   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Hao-Yuan Cheng   ^{1, 3 *} , MD, MSc ;   Tu-Hsuan Chang   ⁴ , MD ;   Te-Wei Ho   ⁵ , PhD ;   Ting-Chi Liu   ^{6, 7} , MSc ;   Ting-Yu Yen   ¹ , MD ;   Chia-Ching Chou   ^{6 *} , PhD ;   Luan-Yin Chang   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Feipei Lai   ^{2, 8, 9} , PhD

¹ Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

² Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

³ Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Taipei City, Taiwan

⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, Taiwan

⁵ Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

⁶ Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

⁷ Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

⁸ Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

⁹ Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

*these authors contributed equally