scholarly journals Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Prediction of Hospitalization in Heart Failure Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Lorenzoni ◽  
Stefano Santo Sabato ◽  
Corrado Lanera ◽  
Daniele Bottigliengo ◽  
Clara Minto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Data Imputation ◽  
Missing Data Imputation ◽  
Heart Failure Patients ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Using Data

The present study aims to compare the performance of eight Machine Learning Techniques (MLTs) in the prediction of hospitalization among patients with heart failure, using data from the Gestione Integrata dello Scompenso Cardiaco (GISC) study. The GISC project is an ongoing study that takes place in the region of Puglia, Southern Italy. Patients with a diagnosis of heart failure are enrolled in a long-term assistance program that includes the adoption of an online platform for data sharing between general practitioners and cardiologists working in hospitals and community health districts. Logistic regression, generalized linear model net (GLMN), classification and regression tree, random forest, adaboost, logitboost, support vector machine, and neural networks were applied to evaluate the feasibility of such techniques in predicting hospitalization of 380 patients enrolled in the GISC study, using data about demographic characteristics, medical history, and clinical characteristics of each patient. The MLTs were compared both without and with missing data imputation. Overall, models trained without missing data imputation showed higher predictive performances. The GLMN showed better performance in predicting hospitalization than the other MLTs, with an average accuracy, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of 81.2%, 87.5%, and 75%, respectively. Present findings suggest that MLTs may represent a promising opportunity to predict hospital admission of heart failure patients by exploiting health care information generated by the contact of such patients with the health care system.

scholarly journals Detecting Congestive Heart Failure by Extracting Multimodal Features and Employing Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lal Hussain ◽  
Imtiaz Ahmed Awan ◽  
Wajid Aziz ◽  
Sharjil Saeed ◽  
Amjad Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Congestive Heart Failure ◽  
Lower Bound ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Multimodal Features

The adaptability of heart to external and internal stimuli is reflected by the heart rate variability (HRV). Reduced HRV can be a predictor of negative cardiovascular outcomes. Based on the nonlinear, nonstationary, and highly complex dynamics of the controlling mechanism of the cardiovascular system, linear HRV measures have limited capability to accurately analyze the underlying dynamics. In this study, we propose an automated system to analyze HRV signals by extracting multimodal features to capture temporal, spectral, and complex dynamics. Robust machine learning techniques, such as support vector machine (SVM) with its kernel (linear, Gaussian, radial base function, and polynomial), decision tree (DT), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), and ensemble classifiers, were employed to evaluate the detection performance. Performance was evaluated in terms of specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). The highest performance was obtained using SVM linear kernel (TA = 93.1%, AUC = 0.97, 95% CI [lower bound = 0.04, upper bound = 0.89]), followed by ensemble subspace discriminant (TA = 91.4%, AUC = 0.96, 95% CI [lower bound 0.07, upper bound = 0.81]) and SVM medium Gaussian kernel (TA = 90.5%, AUC = 0.95, 95% CI [lower bound = 0.07, upper bound = 0.86]). The results reveal that the proposed approach can provide an effective and computationally efficient tool for automatic detection of congestive heart failure patients.

Early Stage Detection of Heart Failure Using Machine Learning Techniques

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Zulfikar Alom ◽  
Mohammad Abdul Azim ◽  
Zeyar Aung ◽  
Matloob Khushi ◽  
Josip Car ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Techniques

Homeland Security Data Mining and Link Analysis

2011 ◽  
pp. 566-569
Author(s):  
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Link Analysis ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Data Mining Technique ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Terrorist Events

Data mining is the process of posing queries to large quantities of data and extracting information often previously unknown using mathematical, statistical, and machine-learning techniques. Data mining has many applications in a number of areas, including marketing and sales, medicine, law, manufacturing, and, more recently, homeland security. Using data mining, one can uncover hidden dependencies between terrorist groups as well as possibly predict terrorist events based on past experience. One particular data-mining technique that is being investigated a great deal for homeland security is link analysis, where links are drawn between various nodes, possibly detecting some hidden links.

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