Table 2 The performance of the SAPS 3 model and the ANN model for different primary ICU diagnoses based on the test set (n = 36,214)

Test set

36,214

0.850 (0.846–0.855)

0.889 (0.885–0.893)

<10⁻¹⁵

Cardiac arrest

1,651

0.858 (0.835–0.881)

0.893 (0.875–0.912)

<10⁻⁷

Septic shock

1,481

0.846 (0.821–0.870)

0.889 (0.869–0.909)

<10⁻⁸

Respiratory failure

1,467

0.830 (0.804–0.856)

0.878 (0.855–0.900)

<10⁻⁸

Gastrointestinal haemorrhage

1,324

0.878 (0.858–0.900)

0.910 (0.892–0.927)

<10⁻⁵

SIRS

1,320

0.836 (0.811–0.862)

0.884 (0.863–0.906)

<10⁻⁸

Trauma

1,301

0.844 (0.820–0.869)

0.882 (0.860–0.903)

<10⁻⁵

Bacterial pneumonia

1,173

0.856 (0.830–0.882)

0.895 (0.874–0.916)

<10⁻⁷

Seizures

797

0.847 (0.814–0.880)

0.892 (0.865–0.918)

<10⁻⁴

Head injury

760

0.833 (0.796–0.869)

0.888 (0.860–0.916)

<10⁻⁵