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Artificial Intelligence for the Diagnosis of Heart Failure

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Choi, Dong-Ju, Park, Jin Joo, Ali, Taqdir, Lee, Sungyoung·2020·npj Digital Medicine

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The diagnosis of heart failure can be difficult, even for heart failure specialists. Artificial Intelligence-Clinical Decision Support System (AI-CDSS) has the potential to assist physicians in heart failure diagnosis. The aim of this work was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of an AI-CDSS for heart failure. AI-CDSS for cardiology was developed with a hybrid (expert-driven and machine-learning-driven) approach of knowledge acquisition to evolve the knowledge base with heart failure diagnosis. A retrospective cohort of 1198 patients with and without heart failure was used for the development of AI-CDSS (training dataset, n = 600) and to test the performance (test dataset, n = 598). A prospective clinical pilot study of 97 patients with dyspnea was used to assess the diagnostic accuracy of AI-CDSS compared with that of non-heart failure specialists. The concordance rate between AI-CDSS and heart failure specialists was evaluated. In retrospective cohort, the concordance rate was 98.3% in the test dataset. The concordance rate for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and no heart failure was 100%, 100%, 99.6%, and 91.7%, respectively. In a prospective pilot study of 97 patients presenting with dyspnea to the outpatient clinic, 44% had heart failure. The concordance rate between AI-CDSS and heart failure specialists was 98%, whereas that between non-heart failure specialists and heart failure specialists was 76%. In conclusion, AI-CDSS showed a high diagnostic accuracy for heart failure. Therefore, AI-CDSS may be useful for the diagnosis of heart failure, especially when heart failure specialists are not available.

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Authors
Choi, D.-J., Park, J. J., Ali, T., & Lee, S.
Affiliations
  • Seoul National University (KR)
  • Kyung Hee University (KR)
Corresponding author
  • Choi, Dong-Ju
  • Lee, Sungyoung
Venue
npj Digital Medicine
Published
2020-04-08
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
54-54
ISSN
2398-6352 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3015932015
Cited by
163
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 6
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15.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • npj Digital Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Iran Telecommunication Research Center (IITP-2017-0-01629)
  • Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (IITP-2017-0-01629)
  • Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP-2017-0-01629)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Failure Treatment and Management
Keywords
heart failure diagnosis, artificial intelligence, clinical decision support systems, diagnostic accuracy, dyspnea, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, mid-range ejection fraction

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