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Cardiovascular disease risk prediction using automated machine learning: A prospective study of 423,604 UK Biobank participants

PloS one, 2019-05, Vol.14 (5), p.e0213653-e0213653 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Cardiovascular disease risk prediction using automated machine learning: A prospective study of 423,604 UK Biobank participants
Author: Alaa, Ahmed M ; Bolton, Thomas ; Di Angelantonio, Emanuele ; Rudd, James H F ; van der Schaar, Mihaela
Aalto-Setala, Katriina
Subjects: Algorithms ; Analysis ; Artificial intelligence ; Bioinformatics ; Biological Specimen Banks ; Blood pressure ; Body mass ; Body mass index ; Body size ; Calibration ; Cardiology ; Cardiovascular disease ; Cardiovascular diseases ; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology ; Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology ; Care and treatment ; Computer and Information Sciences ; Diabetes ; Diabetes mellitus ; Family medical history ; Female ; Genomics ; Hazards ; Health risk assessment ; Health risks ; Heart ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Internal medicine ; Laboratories ; Learning algorithms ; Machine Learning ; Male ; Mathematical models ; Medical research ; Medicine ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Model accuracy ; Modelling ; Novels ; Patient outcomes ; Performance enhancement ; Performance prediction ; Physical Sciences ; Population Surveillance ; Practice guidelines (Medicine) ; Prediction models ; Primary care ; Prognosis ; Proportional Hazards Models ; Prospective Studies ; Public health ; Reproducibility of Results ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Retirement benefits ; Risk analysis ; Risk Assessment ; Risk Factors ; Smoking ; Subgroups ; United Kingdom - epidemiology ; Variables
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2019-05, Vol.14 (5), p.e0213653-e0213653
Description: Identifying people at risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is a cornerstone of preventative cardiology. Risk prediction models currently recommended by clinical guidelines are typically based on a limited number of predictors with sub-optimal performance across all patient groups. Data-driven techniques based on machine learning (ML) might improve the performance of risk predictions by agnostically discovering novel risk predictors and learning the complex interactions between them. We tested (1) whether ML techniques based on a state-of-the-art automated ML framework (AutoPrognosis) could improve CVD risk prediction compared to traditional approaches, and (2) whether considering non-traditional variables could increase the accuracy of CVD risk predictions. Using data on 423,604 participants without CVD at baseline in UK Biobank, we developed a ML-based model for predicting CVD risk based on 473 available variables. Our ML-based model was derived using AutoPrognosis, an algorithmic tool that automatically selects and tunes ensembles of ML modeling pipelines (comprising data imputation, feature processing, classification and calibration algorithms). We compared our model with a well-established risk prediction algorithm based on conventional CVD risk factors (Framingham score), a Cox proportional hazards (PH) model based on familiar risk factors (i.e, age, gender, smoking status, systolic blood pressure, history of diabetes, reception of treatments for hypertension and body mass index), and a Cox PH model based on all of the 473 available variables. Predictive performances were assessed using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC). Overall, our AutoPrognosis model improved risk prediction (AUC-ROC: 0.774, 95% CI: 0.768-0.780) compared to Framingham score (AUC-ROC: 0.724, 95% CI: 0.720-0.728, p < 0.001), Cox PH model with conventional risk factors (AUC-ROC: 0.734, 95% CI: 0.729-0.739, p < 0.001), and Cox PH model with all UK Biobank variables (AUC-ROC: 0.758, 95% CI: 0.753-0.763, p < 0.001). Out of 4,801 CVD cases recorded within 5 years of baseline, AutoPrognosis was able to correctly predict 368 more cases compared to the Framingham score. Our AutoPrognosis model included predictors that are not usually considered in existing risk prediction models, such as the individuals' usual walking pace and their self-reported overall health rating. Furthermore, our model improved risk prediction in potentially relevant sub-populations, such as in individuals with history of diabetes. We also highlight the relative benefits accrued from including more information into a predictive model (information gain) as compared to the benefits of using more complex models (modeling gain). Our AutoPrognosis model improves the accuracy of CVD risk prediction in the UK Biobank population. This approach performs well in traditionally poorly served patient subgroups. Additionally, AutoPrognosis uncovered novel predictors for CVD disease that may now be tested in prospective studies. We found that the "information gain" achieved by considering more risk factors in the predictive model was significantly higher than the "modeling gain" achieved by adopting complex predictive models.
Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213653
PMID: 31091238
Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
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