Identifying Ventricular Arrhythmias and Their Predictors by Applying Machine Learning Methods to Electronic Health Records in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM-VAr-Risk Model)

Moumita Bhattacharya, Dai Yin Lu, Shibani M. Kudchadkar, Gabriela Villarreal Greenland, Prasanth Lingamaneni, Celia P. Corona-Villalobos, Yufan Guan, Joseph E. Marine, Jeffrey E. Olgin, Stefan Zimmerman, Theodore P. Abraham, Hagit Shatkay, Maria Roselle Abraham

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Abstract

Clinical risk stratification for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) employs rules derived from American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association (ACCF/AHA) guidelines or the HCM Risk-SCD model (C-index ∼0.69), which utilize a few clinical variables. We assessed whether data-driven machine learning methods that consider a wider range of variables can effectively identify HC patients with ventricular arrhythmias (VAr) that lead to SCD. We scanned the electronic health records of 711 HC patients for sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. Patients with ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (n = 61) were tagged as VAr cases and the remaining (n = 650) as non-VAr. The 2-sample ttest and information gain criterion were used to identify the most informative clinical variables that distinguish VAr from non-VAr; patient records were reduced to include only these variables. Data imbalance stemming from low number of VAr cases was addressed by applying a combination of over- and undersampling strategies. We trained and tested multiple classifiers under this sampling approach, showing effective classification. We evaluated 93 clinical variables, of which 22 proved predictive of VAr. The ensemble of logistic regression and naïve Bayes classifiers, trained based on these 22 variables and corrected for data imbalance, was most effective in separating VAr from non-VAr cases (sensitivity = 0.73, specificity = 0.76, C-index = 0.83). Our method (HCM-VAr-Risk Model) identified 12 new predictors of VAr, in addition to 10 established SCD predictors. In conclusion, this is the first application of machine learning for identifying HC patients with VAr, using clinical attributes. Our model demonstrates good performance (C-index) compared with currently employed SCD prediction algorithms, while addressing imbalance inherent in clinical data.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1681-1689
Number of pages9
JournalAmerican Journal of Cardiology
Volume123
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - May 15 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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