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Roohallah Alizadehsani1, Jafar Habibi, Behdad Bahadorian
1Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Insights
This study developed a new method to identify blocked coronary arteries using risk factors and clinical data when ECG changes are minimal. The approach achieved up to 74% accuracy in diagnosing stenosis in individual coronary arteries.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Medical Informatics
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
Background:
- Cardiovascular diseases, particularly Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), are a leading cause of mortality worldwide.
- Early diagnosis of CAD is crucial for effective treatment and reducing deaths.
- Current diagnostic methods are limited, especially in cases with subtle or absent ECG abnormalities, and few studies analyze stenosis in individual coronary vessels.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a method for identifying the specific lesioned coronary artery in patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) when ECG changes are not significant.
- To utilize risk factors, physical examination, and paraclinical data for diagnosing coronary artery stenosis.
- To evaluate the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in pinpointing stenosed vessels based on comprehensive patient data.
Main Methods:
- A novel dataset of 303 patients from Tehran's Shaheed Rajaei Cardiovascular, Medical and Research Centre was utilized, featuring comprehensive data without missing values.
- Key features included Function Class, Dyspnoea, Q Wave, ST Elevation, ST Depression, and T inversion.
- Data was processed using C4.5, Naïve Bayes, and k-nearest neighbour (KNN) algorithms, with accuracy assessed via tenfold cross-validation.
Main Results:
- The study achieved diagnostic accuracies of 74.20 ± 5.51% for Left Anterior Descending (LAD) artery stenosis, 63.76 ± 9.73% for Left Circumflex artery, and 68.33 ± 6.90% for Right Coronary Artery using the best-performing method.
- Identification of effective features contributing to the stenosis diagnosis for each specific vessel was accomplished.
- Machine learning models demonstrated capability in differentiating stenosis across individual coronary arteries.
Conclusions:
- The developed approach shows promise for diagnosing coronary artery stenosis, particularly in challenging cases lacking clear ECG indicators.
- Risk factors and paraclinical data, when analyzed with machine learning, can effectively identify specific lesioned coronary arteries.
- This method offers a valuable tool for improving the early and precise diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).
Abstract:
Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common diseases that cause a large number of deaths each year. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the most common type of these diseases worldwide and is the main reason of heart attacks. Thus early diagnosis of CAD is very essential and is an important field of medical studies. Many methods are used to diagnose CAD so far. These methods reduce cost and deaths. But a few studies examined stenosis of each vessel separately. Determination of stenosed coronary artery when significant ECG abnormality exists is not a difficult task. Moreover, ECG abnormality is not common among CAD patients. The aim of this study is to find a way for specifying the lesioned vessel when there is not enough ECG changes and only based on risk factors, physical examination and Para clinic data. Therefore, a new data set was used which has no missing value and includes new and effective features like Function Class, Dyspnoea, Q Wave, ST Elevation, ST Depression and Tinversion. These data was collected from 303 random visitor of Tehran's Shaheed Rajaei Cardiovascular, Medical and Research Centre, in 2011 fall and 2012 winter. They processed with C4.5, Naïve Bayes, and k-nearest neighbour (KNN) algorithms and their accuracy were measured by tenfold cross validation. In the best method the accuracy of diagnosis of stenosis of each vessel reached to 74.20 ± 5.51% for Left Anterior Descending (LAD), 63.76 ± 9.73% for Left Circumflex and 68.33 ± 6.90% for Right Coronary Artery. The effective features of stenosis of each vessel were found too.
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