Hybrid feature-selection and diversity-guided stacking framework for interpretable ensemble learning: Application to COVID-19 mortality prediction

• Farideh Mohtasham ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farideh Mohtasham, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6927-9589

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• Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farideh Mohtasham, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health & Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran

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• Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Center, Hearing Sciences, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Kaveh Kavousi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kkavousi@ut.ac.ir

  Affiliation Laboratory of Complex Biological Systems and Bioinformatics (CBB), Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1906-3912

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• Mohammad Reza Zali

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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