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Chapter 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7122-3.ch011
ABSTRACT
Heart diseases and stroke are the number one cause of death and disability among people with type 2
diabetes (T2D). Clinicians and health authorities for many years have expressed interest in identifying
individuals at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Our main objective is to develop a prog-
nostic workflow of CHD in T2D patients using a Holter dataset. This workflow development will be based
on machine learning techniques by testing a variety of classifiers and subsequent selection of the best
performing system. It will also assess the impact of feature selection and bootstrapping techniques over
these systems. Among a variety of classifiers such as Naive Bayes (NB), Random Forest (RF), Support
Vector Machine (SVM), Alternating Decision Tree (ADT), Random Tree (RT) and K-Nearest Neighbour
(KNN), the best performing classifier is NB. We achieved an area under receiver operating characteristics
curve (AUC) of 68,06% and 74,33% for a prognosis of 3 and 4 years, respectively.
Coronary Heart Disease
Prognosis Using Machine-
Learning Techniques
on Patients With Type
2 Diabetes Mellitus
Angela Pimentel
FCT-UNL, Portugal
Hugo Gamboa
FCT-UNL, Portugal
Isa Maria Almeida
APDP-ERC, Portugal
Pedro Matos
APDP-ERC, Portugal
Rogério T. Ribeiro
APDP-ERC, Portugal
João Raposo
APDP-ERC, Portugal