Predictors of 30-Day Mortality Using Machine Learning Approach following Carotid Endarterectomy: An Insight from National Surgical Quality Database
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Abstract
Abstract BACKGROUND: Pre-operative prognostication of 30-day mortality in patients with carotid endarterectomy (CEA) can optimize surgical risk stratification and guide the decision-making process to improve survival. To develop and validate a set of predictive variables of 30-day mortality following CEA.METHODS: The patient cohort was identified from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (2005-2016). We performed logistic regression (enter, stepwise and forward) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) method for selection of variables, which resulted in 28-candidate models. The final model was selected based upon clinical knowledge and numerical results.RESULTS: Statistical analysis included 65,807 patients with 30-day mortality in 0.7% (n=466) patients. The median age of our cohort was 71.0 years (range, 16-89 years). The model with 9-predictive factors which included: age, body mass index, functional health status, American society of anesthesiologist grade, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, preoperative serum albumin, preoperative hematocrit, preoperative serum creatinine and preoperative platelet count—performed best on discrimination, calibration, Brier score and decision analysis to develop a machine learning algorithm. Logistic regression showed higher AUCs than LASSO across these different models. The predictive probability derived from the best model was converted into an open-accessible scoring system.CONCLUSION: Machine learning algorithms show promising results for predicting 30-day mortality following CEA. These algorithms can be useful aids for counseling patients, assessing pre-operative medical risks, and predicting survival after surgery.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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