Python program that implements a machine learning algorithm for predicting ferritin levels using clinical laboratory data
1 min readJan 15, 2023
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
# Load the data
data = pd.read_csv("patient_data.csv")
# Split the data into features (other test results) and target (ferritin test result)
X = data.drop("ferritin", axis=1)
y = data["ferritin"]
# Split the data into training and testing sets
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2)
# Create and train the model
model = RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators=100)
model.fit(X_train, y_train)
# Make predictions on the test data
y_pred = model.predict(X_test)
# Evaluate the model
acc = accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred)
print("Accuracy:", acc)
This code uses the RandomForestRegressor algorithm from scikit-learn library to train a model that predicts ferritin results based on other test results. The program loads the data from a CSV file, splits it into features and target, and splits it again into training and testing sets. The model is trained on the training set, and then used to make predictions on the test set. Finally, the program evaluates the model by calculating the accuracy between the predicted and true ferritin test results.