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ArticleScientific reports2021

Impact of train/test sample regimen on performance estimate stability of machine learning in cardiovascular imaging.

Vikash Singh, Michael Pencina, Andrew J Einstein, Joanna X Liang, Daniel S Berman, Piotr Slomka

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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6 authors.

Vikash SinghUniversity of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Michael PencinaDuke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.
Andrew J EinsteinDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Joanna X LiangDivision of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Cardiology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Boulevard, Ste. A047N, Los Angeles, CA, 8700, USA.
Daniel S BermanDivision of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Cardiology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Boulevard, Ste. A047N, Los Angeles, CA, 8700, USA.
Piotr SlomkaUniversity of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Piotr.Slomka@cshs.org.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As machine learning research in the field of cardiovascular imaging continues to grow, obtaining reliable model performance estimates is critical to develop reliable baselines and compare different algorithms. While the machine learning community has generally accepted methods such as k-fold stratified cross-validation (CV) to be more rigorous than single split validation, the standard research practice in medical fields is the use of single split validation techniques. This is especially concerning given the relatively small sample sizes of datasets used for cardiovascular imaging. We aim to examine how train-test split variation impacts the stability of machine learning (ML) model performance estimates in several validation techniques on two real-world cardiovascular imaging datasets: stratified split-sample validation (70/30 and 50/50 train-test splits), tenfold stratified CV, 10 × repeated tenfold stratified CV, bootstrapping (500 × repeated), and leave one out (LOO) validation. We demonstrate that split validation methods lead to the highest range in AUC and statistically significant differences in ROC curves, unlike the other aforementioned approaches. When building predictive models on relatively small data sets as is often the case in medical imaging, split-sample validation techniques can produce instability in performance estimates with variations in range over 0.15 in the AUC values, and thus any of the alternate validation methods are recommended.

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Machine LearningArea Under CurveCardiovascular DiseasesDatabases, FactualHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMyocardial Perfusion ImagingReproducibility of Results

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PMID34262098
PMCPMC8280147

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