Non-Laboratory-Based Risk Factors for Automated Heart Disease Detection
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- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT, 2018, 2018-March
- Issue Date:
- 2018-12-11
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© 2018 IEEE. Developing a heart disease detection model using simple non-laboratory risk factors plays an important role in preventive care, especially for high risk subjects. The model allows physicians/epidemiologists to effectively diagnose a person as having heart disease. In this work, we aim to develop a non-invasive risk prediction model for automated heart disease detection that involves age, gender, rest blood pressure, maximum heart rate, and rest electrocardiography. We examine four public datasets from 1071 participants who were referred for a special X-ray of the heart's arteries (i.e., to see if they are narrowed or blocked). The subjects also undertook a physical examination and three non-invasive tests. To estimate the heart disease status, we apply a generalized linear model with regularization paths via coordinate descent. Even without laboratory-based data (e.g., serum cholesterol, fasting blood sugar), we observed a prediction accuracy as high as 72%, compared with 76% of other comprehensive models. This observation suggests that few non-invasive factors utilizing recent advances in data analytics can replace the current practices of heart disease risk assessment.
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