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Environmental and social determinants of health enhance machine learning models for pneumonia readmission

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  • Jack A. Cummins

  • Feifan Liu

  • June 15, 2026

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    Choi et al. incorporated residential greenness, measured by NDVI, into machine learning models predicting pneumonia readmissions.

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    NDVI was included among the final 21 predictors after a rigorous three-step feature selection process involving 22,600 patients.

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    Ablation analysis is suggested to evaluate the performance gain from NDVI integration in predictive models.

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    NDVI serves as a proxy for social determinants of health, highlighting disparities in residential greenness across socioeconomic contexts.

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    Future research should explore NDVI's impact on model performance across sociodemographic subgroups to address equity in health predictions.

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Environmental and social determinants of health enhance machine learning models for pneumonia readmission

  • by Jack A. Cummins, Feifan Liu

  • June 15, 2026

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