Introduction: Our aim was to use the constructed machine learning (ML) models as auxiliary diagnostic tools to improve the diagnostic accuracy of non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI).
Materials and methods: A total of 2878 patients were included in this retrospective study, including 1409 patients with NSTEMI and 1469 patients with unstable angina pectoris. The clinical and biochemical characteristics of the patients were used to construct the initial attribute set. SelectKBest algorithm was used to determine the most important features. A feature engineering method was applied to create new features correlated strongly to train ML models and obtain promising results. Based on the experimental dataset, the ML models of extreme gradient boosting, support vector machine, random forest, naïve Bayesian, gradient boosting machines and logistic regression were constructed. Each model was verified by test set data, and the diagnostic performance of each model was comprehensively evaluated.
Results: The six ML models based on the training set all play an auxiliary role in the diagnosis of NSTEMI. Although all models taken for comparison performed differences, the extreme gradient boosting ML model performed the best in terms of accuracy rate (0.95±0.014), precision rate (0.94±0.011), recall rate (0.98±0.003) and F-1 score (0.96±0.007) in NSTEMI.
Conclusions: The ML model constructed based on clinical data can be used as an auxiliary tool to improve the accuracy of NSTEMI diagnosis. According to our comprehensive evaluation, the performance of the extreme gradient boosting model was the best.
Keywords: cardiology; coronary heart disease; myocardial infarction.
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