Data Analysis of Impaired Renal and Cardiac Function Using a Combination of Standard Classifiers

• Published in: Journal of personalized medicine Vol. 13; no. 3; p. 437
• Main Authors: Tasic, Danijela, Furundzic, Drasko, Djordjevic, Katarina, Galovic, Slobodanka, Dimitrijevic, Zorica, Radenkovic, Sonja
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 28.02.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Analysis; Artificial intelligence; Biomarkers; Cardiovascular diseases; Chronic kidney failure; Classification; Clinical medicine; Cognition & reasoning; Creatinine; Cystatin C; Diagnosis; Fuzzy logic; Heart; Heart failure; Kidney diseases; Machine learning; Mathematical models; Medicine; Neural networks; Patient compliance; Patients; Potassium; Precision medicine; Renal function; Variables; Serbia; Taiwan; kidney; naive Bayes classifier; neural networks; forecasting ensembles; k-nearest neighbor; machine learning; markers; heart
• ISSN: 2075-4426; 2075-4426
• DOI: 10.3390/jpm13030437

We examine the significance of the predictive potential of EPI cystatin C (EPI CysC) in combination with NTproBNP, sodium, and potassium in the evaluation of renal function in patients with cardiorenal syndrome using standard mathematical classification models from the domain of artificial intelligence. The criterion for the inclusion of subjects with combined impairment of heart and kidney function in the study was the presence of newly discovered or previously diagnosed clinically manifest cardiovascular disease and acute or chronic kidney disease in different stages of evolution. In this paper, five standard classifiers from the field of machine learning were used for the analysis of the obtained data: ensemble of neural networks (MLP), ensemble of k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) and naive Bayes classifier, decision tree, and a classifier based on logistic regression. The results showed that in MLP, k-NN, and naive Bayes, EPI CysC had the highest predictive potential. Thus, our approach with utility classifiers recognizes the essence of the disorder in patients with cardiorenal syndrome and facilitates the planning of further treatment.