Development of an electronic medical record (EMR) registry and machine learning (ML) model for prediction of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) using clinical data
摘要
The development of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) to digitalise the storage process of patients’ records is needed since it is an integral part of the health care system. Deploying machine learning approaches, the occurrence of DKD in type 2 diabetes patients is predicted, and identified the risk parameters that will assist in prediction procedure.
MethodsThe medical records of 297 patients are collected from the hospital over seven months. The 297 patients’ raw data is pre-processed. Seven different machine learning approaches are applied on the data set to train different models for prediction. The models are evaluated using several evaluation metrics, and compared their performances to find an appropriate model for DKD prediction. The degree of significance of the risk factors that influence DKD is determined through the SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) technique. Calibration curves and decision curves are plotted to define the clinical utility of the model.
ResultsAmong all models, the Random Forest has given better performance with 81.11% accuracy and 0.86 Area Under Curve of the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (ROC-AUC). Applying the SHAP technique, high urine protein, Urine Albumin Creatinine Ratio (UACR), Post Prandial Blood Sugar (PPBS), sodium, potassium, and uric acid are identified as the attributes influencing DKD. This model showed a good calibration and positive net benefit across clinically meaningful thresholds.
ConclusionWe have concluded that machine learning models like Random Forest can predict DKD with different levels of accuracy, and using SHAP techniques, the risk factors for DKD can be identified.