A Machine Learning Approach to Differentiate Cold and Hot Syndrome in Viral Pneumonia Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Modern Medicine: Machine Learning Model Development and Validation

Xiaojie Jin   ^{1, 2 *} , Prof Dr ;   Yanru Wang   ^{1 *} , Dr med ;   Jiarui Wang   ^{3 *} , MM ;   Qian Gao   ² , MSc ;   Yuhan Huang   ¹ , MM ;   Lingyu Shao   ⁴ , MM ;   Jiali Zhao   ¹ , MM ;   Jintian Li   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Ling Li   ^{1 *} , Prof Dr ;   Zhiming Zhang   ^{5 *} , Prof Dr Med ;   Shuyan Li   ^{4 *} , Prof Dr ;   Yongqi Liu   ^{1 *} , Prof Dr, Prof Dr Med

¹ Key Laboratory of Dunhuang Medicine, Ministry of Education, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China

² College of Pharmacy, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China

³ The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China

⁴ School of Medical Information and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China

⁵ Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China

*these authors contributed equally