Predicting End-Stage Renal Disease and Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease Using Machine Learning: Retrospective Cohort Study

Tz-Heng Chen   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Kuan-Hsun Lin   ^{4, 5} ;   Yang Ho   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Wei-Cheng Tseng   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Yuan-Chia Chu   ^{4, 5, 6 *} , PhD ;   Der-Cherng Tarng   ^{2, 7 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

² School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

³ Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

⁴ Department of Information Management, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

⁵ Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science, Taipei, Taiwan

⁶ Big Data Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

⁷ Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

*these authors contributed equally