An astounding 2.6 million Canadian adults aged 20 and over reside with identified coronary heart illness. Nonetheless, the variety of new diagnoses has declined from 217,600 to 162,730. Early detection and administration of circumstances like hypertension, diabetes, chest ache, and excessive ldl cholesterol can proceed to considerably cut back coronary heart illness threat and diagnoses (Canada, 2022).
Preventative care lies on the forefront of right this moment’s healthcare system, and I hope that this evaluation can present insights into the early detection of various kinds of chest ache in older sufferers to offer correct diagnoses and enhance general affected person care and outcomes.
The Query I Will Be Analyzing:
Can the kind of chest ache and age predict the presence of coronary heart illness in new sufferers?
I will likely be taking a more in-depth have a look at variables corresponding to age, chest ache, and whether or not or not there’s a presence of coronary heart illness. It is a classification drawback and can use knn algorithms to foretell outcomes.
By: Niharika Dwivedi
For this challenge, I will likely be utilizing the Coronary heart Illness dataset from the UCI Machine Studying Repository.
Variables:
- Age
- Chest Ache Sort (cp):
- 1: Typical angina
- 2: Atypical angina
- 3: Non-anginal ache
- 4: Asymptomatic
- Goal (num): The presence of coronary heart illness, the place 0 signifies no coronary heart illness and 1 signifies the presence of coronary heart illness.
I will likely be strolling you thru my evaluation within the following steps.
Information Cleansing and Preprocessing:
- I dealt with “?” by assigning it to NA and changing variables to applicable sorts. Used set.seed(123) for reproducibility and break up knowledge into 75% coaching and 25% testing.
- Here’s a nearer have a look at the coaching knowledge body
- I summarized knowledge by grouping the heart_train dataset by chest ache sort and coronary heart illness standing, then calculated the imply age for every group. Used this abstract for the third plot.
- I created 3 graphs: Age distribution vs chest ache sort for insights into age teams and chest ache sorts. P.c of coronary heart illness vs chest ache sort to establish which chest ache sorts correlate with coronary heart illness. Common age vs chest ache sort by coronary heart illness analysis to point out age distribution amongst completely different chest ache sorts and coronary heart illness standing.
Recipe, Specification and Cross-Validation:
- Recipe contains response variable as num and predictors as cp and age
- Used 5-fold cross-validation with stratification by num to keep up the proportion of coronary heart illness in every fold.
- Outlined a k-NN mannequin with tune() to optimize the variety of neighbors (okay).
- I selected the optimum okay worth by performing a grid search over a spread of k-values (from 1 to 50) and utilizing 5-fold cross-validation to guage mannequin efficiency, in the end deciding on the okay that supplied the best accuracy on the validation units.
Underfitting/Overfitting:
- I addressed potential underfitting and overfitting by tuning the KNN mannequin with a spread of okay values, plotting accuracy estimates to establish the optimum variety of neighbors.
Tuning and Analysis:
- Carried out grid search with a spread of k-values (1 to 50) to seek out the optimum variety of neighbors.
- Mixed the recipe and mannequin right into a workflow.
- Tuned the mannequin utilizing tune_grid() on the cross-validation folds.
- Collected and analyzed the metrics to pick out the most effective mannequin primarily based on accuracy.
- Finalized the workflow with the most effective parameters and fitted the ultimate mannequin on the coaching knowledge.
- Evaluated the ultimate mannequin on the testing set to evaluate its efficiency.
- Abstract of my findings:
- 0 = No presence of Coronary heart illness
- 1 = Presence of Coronary heart illness
- The mannequin carried out with an accuracy of 76%, precision of 80.55% and recall of 72.5%
2. Interpretation of my findings:
- 76% accuracy looks like a reasonable measurement, nevertheless, it’s necessary to notice that accuracy alone doesn’t inform the entire story
- With 80% precision, the mannequin within reason good at figuring out true instances of coronary heart illness amongst all predicted optimistic instances. Which means that 80% of the sufferers predicted to have coronary heart illness even have it, minimizing pointless therapies for sufferers who shouldn’t have the situation.
- The recall of 72% signifies that the mannequin is profitable in figuring out 72% of all precise coronary heart illness instances. That is essential as a result of lacking a affected person with coronary heart illness (false adverse) might have critical well being penalties.
- Healthcare suppliers could use such a mannequin as an preliminary screening instrument to prioritize sufferers for additional diagnostic exams. A better recall would guarantee fewer instances of coronary heart illness are missed, doubtlessly resulting in earlier remedy and higher affected person outcomes.
3. Is that this what you anticipated to seek out?
- Sure, that is what I anticipated to seek out. After doing analysis on-line, chest ache and age are a number of the key predictors of coronary heart illness. My mannequin is in line with my preliminary analysis and may additional assist docs use this as an preliminary screening instrument to assist analysis and remedy plans.
The anticipated outcomes included discovering that chest ache sorts non-anginal ache and asymptomatic (3 and 4) and older ages are linked to greater coronary heart illness threat. As talked about within the earlier part, utilizing this mannequin underscores the significance of preventative care and the early detection of threat elements like chest ache and age, which might cut back the burden of coronary heart illness within the inhabitants and healthcare system.
Future questions:
- What’s the influence of different variables like gender(intercourse) or life-style (smoking or no smoking) on coronary heart illness threat and prevention?
- How generalizable are these findings to various affected person populations and healthcare settings?
- How can I enhance the accuracy, precision or recall to make docs extra assured in utilizing my mannequin for preliminary screening plans?
Canada, P. H. A. of. (2022, July 28). Authorities of Canada. Canada.ca. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/heart-disease-canada.html
Detrano, R., Janosi, A., Steinbrunn, W., & Pfisterer, M. (1988). Coronary heart illness. UCI Machine Studying Repository. https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/45/heart+disease
Janosi, A., Steinbrunn, W., Pfisterer, M., & Detrano, R. (1988). Coronary heart illness. UCI Machine Studying Repository. https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/45/heart+disease
Timbers, T., Campbell, T., & Lee, M. (2023, December 23). Information science. Information Science. https://datasciencebook.ca/
This challenge report was executed for DSCI 100 supervised by Dr. Vivian Meng at Univeristy of British Columbia. Loads of inspiration for this challenge is taken from the textbook, lecture slides and assist from TAs. A honest thanks to you, the reader, for following alongside my first knowledge science challenge!
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