Abstract
Abstract
Background
Carotid atherosclerosis (CAS), an important factor in the development of stroke, is a major public health concern. The aim of this study was to establish and validate machine learning (ML) models for early screening of CAS using routine health check-up indicators in northeast China.
Methods
A total of 69,601 health check-up records from the health examination center of the First Hospital of China Medical University (Shenyang, China) were collected between 2018 and 2019. For the 2019 records, 80% were assigned to the training set and 20% to the testing set. The 2018 records were used as the external validation dataset. Ten ML algorithms, including decision tree (DT), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), logistic regression (LR), naive Bayes (NB), random forest (RF), multiplayer perceptron (MLP), extreme gradient boosting machine (XGB), gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), linear support vector machine (SVM-linear), and non-linear support vector machine (SVM-nonlinear), were used to construct CAS screening models. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (auROC) and precision-recall curve (auPR) were used as measures of model performance. The SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) method was used to demonstrate the interpretability of the optimal model.
Results
A total of 6315 records of patients undergoing carotid ultrasonography were collected; of these, 1632, 407, and 1141 patients were diagnosed with CAS in the training, internal validation, and external validation datasets, respectively. The GBDT model achieved the highest performance metrics with auROC of 0.860 (95% CI 0.839–0.880) in the internal validation dataset and 0.851 (95% CI 0.837–0.863) in the external validation dataset. Individuals with diabetes or those over 65 years of age showed low negative predictive value. In the interpretability analysis, age was the most important factor influencing the performance of the GBDT model, followed by sex and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Conclusions
The ML models developed could provide good performance for CAS identification using routine health check-up indicators and could hopefully be applied in scenarios without ethnic and geographic heterogeneity for CAS prevention.
Funder
Major project of Ministry of science and technology
CAMS Innovation funding for Medical Sciences
Liaoning Natural Science Foundation Project
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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