A random forest machine learning model using routine echocardiographic measurements detected cardiac amyloidosis with an AUC of 0.84, sensitivity of 0.82, and specificity of 0.73.
Case-Control (n=636)
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Does a random forest machine learning model using routine echocardiographic measurements accurately detect cardiac amyloidosis?
Machine learning applied to routine echocardiographic parameters can accurately detect cardiac amyloidosis, highlighting features like global longitudinal strain and mitral A peak velocity as major diagnostic contributors.
Effect estimate: AUC 0.84
BACKGROUND: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an underdiagnosed, progressive and lethal disease. Machine learning applied to common measurements derived from routine echocardiogram studies can inform suspicion of CA. OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to test a random forest (RF) model in detecting CA. METHODS: We used 3603 echocardiogram studies from 636 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to train an RF model to predict CA from echocardiographic parameters. 231 patients with CA were compared with 405 control patients with negative pyrophosphate scans or clinical diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 19 common echocardiographic measurements from echocardiogram reports were used as input into the RF model. Data was split by patient into a training data set of 2882 studies from 486 patients and a test data set of 721 studies from 150 patients. The performance of the model was evaluated by area under the receiver operative curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value (PPV) on the test data set. RESULTS: The RF model identified CA with an AUC of 0.84, sensitivity of 0.82, specificity of 0.73 and PPV of 0.76. Some echocardiographic measurements had high missingness, suggesting gaps in measurement in routine clinical practice. Features that were large contributors to the model included mitral A-wave velocity, global longitudinal strain (GLS), left ventricle posterior wall diameter end diastolic (LVPWd) and left atrial area. CONCLUSION: Machine learning on echocardiographic parameters can detect patients with CA with accuracy. Our model identified several features that were major contributors towards identifying CA including GLS, mitral A peak velocity and LVPWd. Further study is needed to evaluate its external validity and application in clinical settings.
Chang et al. (Sun,) conducted a case-control in Cardiac amyloidosis (n=636). Random forest machine learning model using routine echocardiographic measurements vs. Control patients with negative pyrophosphate scans or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was evaluated on Detection of cardiac amyloidosis (AUC 0.84). A random forest machine learning model using routine echocardiographic measurements detected cardiac amyloidosis with an AUC of 0.84, sensitivity of 0.82, and specificity of 0.73.
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