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PubMed: 36292142 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12102454

Machine Learning Models for the Prediction of Renal Failure in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Diagnostics (Basel) 12(10)

Authors: Chuan-Tsung Su, Yi-Ping Chang, Yuh-Ting Ku, Chih-Ming Lin

Affiliations

  • Department of Healthcare Information and Management, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
  • Department of Nephrology, Taoyuan Branch of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taoyuan 330, Taiwan.

Abstract

This study assessed the feasibility of five separate machine learning (ML) classifiers for predicting disease progression in patients with pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD). The study enrolled 858 patients with CKD treated at a veteran's hospital in Taiwan. After classification into early and advanced stages, patient demographics and laboratory data were processed and used to predict progression to renal failure and important features for optimal prediction were identified. The random forest (RF) classifier with synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) had the best predictive performances among patients with early-stage CKD who progressed within 3 and 5 years and among patients with advanced-stage CKD who progressed within 1 and 3 years. Important features identified for predicting progression from early- and advanced-stage CKD were urine creatinine and serum creatinine levels, respectively. The RF classifier demonstrated the optimal performance, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values of 0.96 for predicting progression within 5 years in patients with early-stage CKD and 0.97 for predicting progression within 1 year in patients with advanced-stage CKD. The proposed method resulted in the optimal prediction of CKD progression, especially within 1 year of advanced-stage CKD. These results will be useful for predicting prognosis among patients with CKD.

MeSH

Kidney Diseases, Creatinine, Cohort Studies, Machine Learning, Renal Dialysis

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