Communications Medicine (Jan 2022)

Development and preliminary validation of a machine learning system for thyroid dysfunction diagnosis based on routine laboratory tests

  • Min Hu,
  • Chikashi Asami,
  • Hiroshi Iwakura,
  • Yasuyo Nakajima,
  • Ryousuke Sema,
  • Tsuyoshi Kikuchi,
  • Tsuyoshi Miyata,
  • Koji Sakamaki,
  • Takumi Kudo,
  • Masanobu Yamada,
  • Takashi Akamizu,
  • Yasubumi Sakakibara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00071-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Hu et al. develop a machine learning approach for diagnosis of thyroid disorders based on routine clinical laboratory measurements. The approach is tested on data from multiple institutions and can distinguish patients with hyper- or hypothyroidism from controls with high accuracy.