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Accurate and early risk detection will provide more information for early management and better decision making. This study aimed to build prediction models using patients\u2019 characteristics, laboratory data, and comorbidities for early detection of acute respiratory failure, ventilator dependence, and mortality in patients with COPD after hospitalization. We retrospectively collected the electronic medical records of 5061 patients with COPD in three hospitals of the Chi Mei Medical Group, Taiwan. After data cleaning, we built three prediction models for acute respiratory failure, ventilator dependence, and mortality using seven machine learning algorithms. Based on the AUC value, the best model for mortality was built by the XGBoost algorithm (AUC = 0.817), the best model for acute respiratory failure was built by random forest algorithm (AUC = 0.804), while the best model for ventilator dependence was built by LightGBM algorithm (AUC = 0.809). A web service application was implemented with the best models and integrated into the existing hospital information system for physician\u2019s trials and evaluations. Our machine learning models exhibit excellent predictive quality and can therefore provide physicians with a useful decision-making reference for the adverse prognosis of COPD patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics11122396","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,20]],"date-time":"2021-12-20T08:43:32Z","timestamp":1639989812000},"page":"2396","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Acute Respiratory Failure, Ventilator Dependence, and Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4364-8248","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kuang-Ming","family":"Liao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Chiali 72263, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chung-Feng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chia-Jung","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Systems, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu-Ting","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cheng, S.L., and Lin, C.H. 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