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Machine Learning approaches for the mortality risk assessment of patients undergoing hemodialysis

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THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN CHRONIC DISEASE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/20406223221119617

Keywords

feature selection; hemodialysis; machine learning; risk assessment; survival analysis

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  1. National Science and Technology Council, R.O.C. [111-2221-E-165001-MY3]

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This study aimed to assess the all-cause mortality risk in hemodialysis (HD) patients and compared the performance of different Cox proportional hazards (CoxPH) models. The whale optimization algorithm (WOA)-CoxPH model showed the highest concordance index and provided better risk assessment compared to other models. Patients with seven or more risk characteristics of eight selected parameters were found to have a potentially increased risk of all-cause mortality in the HD population.
Introduction: Mortality is a major primary endpoint for long-term hemodialysis (HD) patients. The clinical status of HD patients generally relies on longitudinal clinical observations such as monthly laboratory examinations and physical examinations. Methods: A total of 829 HD patients who met the inclusion criteria were analyzed. All patients were tracked from January 2009 to December 2013. Taken together, this study performed full-adjusted-Cox proportional hazards (CoxPH), stepwise-CoxPH, random survival forest (RSF)-CoxPH, and whale optimization algorithm (WOA)-CoxPH model for the all-cause mortality risk assessment in HD patients. The model performance between proposed selections of CoxPH models were evaluated using concordance index. Results: The WOA-CoxPH model obtained the highest concordance index compared with RSF-CoxPH and typical selection CoxPH model. The eight significant parameters obtained from the WOA-CoxPH model, including age, diabetes mellitus (DM), hemoglobin (Hb), albumin, creatinine (Cr), potassium (K), Kt/V, and cardiothoracic ratio, have also showed significant survival difference between low- and high-risk characteristics in single-factor analysis. By integrating the risk characteristics of each single factor, patients who obtained seven or more risk characteristics of eight selected parameters were dichotomized as high-risk subgroup, and remaining is considered as low-risk subgroup. The integrated low- and high-risk subgroup showed greater discrepancy compared with each single risk factor selected by WOA-CoxPH model. Conclusion: The study findings revealed WOA-CoxPH model could provide better risk assessment performance compared with RSF-CoxPH and typical selection CoxPH model in the HD patients. In summary, patients who had seven or more risk characteristics of eight selected parameters were at potentially increased risk of all-cause mortality in HD population.

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