A machine-learning-based method to predict adverse events in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and severely reduced ejection fractions

Autor: Shenglei Shu, Xiao-Yue Zhou, Ziming Hong, Tianjng Zhang, Qinmu Peng, Jing Wang, Chuansheng Zheng
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Br J Radiol
ISSN: 1748-880X
Popis: Objective: Patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and severely reduced left ventricular ejection fractions (LVEFs) are at very high risks of experiencing adverse cardiac events. A machine learning (ML) method could enable more effective risk stratification for these high-risk patients by incorporating various types of data. The aim of this study was to build an ML model to predict adverse events including all-cause deaths and heart transplantation in DCM patients with severely impaired LV systolic function. Methods: One hundred and eighteen patients with DCM and severely reduced LVEFs (Results: Twelve patients died, and 17 patients underwent heart transplantation during the median follow-up of 508 days. The ML model included systolic blood pressure, left ventricular end-systolic and end-diastolic volume indices, and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) extents on CMR imaging, and a support vector machine was selected as a classifier. The model showed excellent performance in predicting adverse events in DCM patients with severely reduced LVEF (the AUC and accuracy values were 0.873 and 0.763, respectively). Conclusions: This ML technique could effectively predict adverse events in DCM patients with severely reduced LVEF. Advances in knowledge: The ML method has superior ability in risk stratification in severe DCM patients.
Databáze: OpenAIRE