Comparing three machine learning approaches to design a risk assessment tool for future fractures: predicting a subsequent major osteoporotic fracture in fracture patients with osteopenia and osteoporosis.
B C S de VriesJohannes H HegemanWieke S NijmeijerJeroen GeerdinkChristin SeifertCatharina G M Groothuis-OudshoornPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2021)
We show that predicting the risk of MOF in patients who already sustained a fracture can be done with adequate discriminative performance. We developed a user-friendly tool for risk calculation of subsequent MOF in patients with osteopenia.