Can machine-learning improve cardiovascular risk prediction using routine clinical data?

BACKGROUND:Current approaches to predict cardiovascular risk fail to identify many people who would benefit from preventive treatment, while others receive unnecessary intervention. Machine-learning offers opportunity to improve accuracy by exploiting complex interactions between risk factors. We as...

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Main Authors: Stephen F Weng, Jenna Reps, Joe Kai, Jonathan M Garibaldi, Nadeem Qureshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5380334?pdf=render