2019 International Conference on Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Emerging Applications, Deep-ML 2019, İstanbul, Turkey, 26 - 28 August 2019, pp.61-66
© 2019 IEEE.We have investigated the risk factors that lead to severe retinopathy of prematurity using statistical analysis and logistic regression as a form of generalized additive model (GAM) with pairwise interaction terms (GA2M). In this process, we discuss the trade-off between accuracy and interpretability of these machine learning techniques on clinical data. We also confirm the intuition of expert neonatologists on a few risk factors, such as gender, that were previously deemed as clinically not significant in RoP prediction.