Machine Learning Can Predict Deaths in Patients with Diverticulitis During their Hospital Stay Fahad Shabbir Ahmed 1,8 , Raza-Ul-Mustafa 2,3,8 , Liaqat Ali 4 , Imad-ud-Deen 1 , Tahir Hameed 5 , Asad Ikram 5 , Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari 7,* 1 Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA 2 Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation (DCA) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), Unicamp, Brazil 3 Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus, Pakistan. 4 School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China 5 Girard School of Business Merrimack College North Andover, MA, USA 6 Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM USA 7 Division of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science (Healthcare Informatics), St. John's University, NYC Co-first *Corresponding should be addressed to Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari (bukharis@stjohns.edu ) All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted February 18, 2020. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020222 doi: medRxiv preprint