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The burden is especially high in low-income regions, where early diagnosis and treatment are critical for mitigating its impact. This study investigates the effectiveness of various machine learning (ML) techniques in predicting patient outcomes in HBV infection.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Chi-squared test was used for feature selection to find the most important factors, which were later applied to train and evaluate various ML models. To address the class imbalance in the dataset, the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) was used to balance the data. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME) were used to improve the models\u2019 interpretability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among individual models, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Logistic Regression (LR) each achieved an accuracy of 92.5%. By implementing a Voting Classifier that combined SVM and LR, the overall accuracy was improved to 95%. 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