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Leveraging free-text clinical records for heart disease classification through structured feature mapping
1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yanbu Industrial College, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Insights
Machine learning accurately identifies heart disease risk factors like hypertension and diabetes using clinical data. This aids early intervention and personalized patient care, improving health outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Medical Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Cardiovascular Disease Research
Background:
- Hypertension and diabetes are primary risk factors for heart disease, a leading cause of death globally.
- Effective management of heart disease relies on early identification and monitoring of these risk factors.
- Machine learning offers potential for automated risk factor detection and personalized preventive strategies.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate a machine learning model for automatic extraction of heart disease risk factors.
- To predict the presence or absence of heart disease using multimodal data sources.
- To enhance early intervention and patient management for cardiovascular diseases.
Main Methods:
- Utilized a combination of unstructured clinical narratives (PrevComp corpus) and structured datasets (UCI heart disease dataset).
- Employed the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) algorithm for classification.
- Developed a model to predict the presence or absence of heart disease based on extracted risk factors.
Main Results:
- The LightGBM classification model achieved a predictive accuracy of 83% for heart disease.
- Demonstrated robust performance in identifying patients at high risk for heart disease.
- The model's accuracy supports its potential for improving clinical decision-making.
Conclusions:
- Machine learning, specifically LightGBM, can effectively identify heart disease risk factors from diverse data.
- The developed model shows promise for accurate patient risk stratification.
- This approach can significantly contribute to personalized medicine and improved cardiovascular outcomes.
Abstract:
Hypertension and diabetes are major risk factors for heart disease, which remains among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Heart disease includes heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, and atherosclerosis. The identification and monitoring of these risk factors are crucial for early intervention and effective management. Machine learning techniques have the potential to improve the management and prevention of heart disease by enabling the automatic detection of risk factors, which in turn can help doctors personalize treatment and facilitate preventive interventions. In this study, heart disease risk factors were automatically extracted using a combination of multimodal data: both unstructured clinical narratives (e.g., the PrevComp corpus) and structured datasets (e.g., the UCI heart disease dataset) were used to predict the presence or absence of heart disease. The classification model is based on the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM), a state-of-the-art implementation of the gradient boosting framework that employs tree-based learning algorithms. The developed classification model demonstrated a robust predictive accuracy of 83% for the presence/absence of heart disease, supporting its potential to accurately identify high-risk patients and improve clinical outcomes.
