ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026
Performance and Fairness of a Peripheral Artery Disease Detection Model Across Patient Phenotypes and Health Systems.
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Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a major cause of cardiovascular events but remains underdiagnosed. Electronic health record (EHR)-based machine learning models show promise for earlier detection, but developing generalizable and fair models across diverse populations remains challenging. Methods: Using the University of California Health Data Warehouse, containing EHR data from five health systems, we identified patients with and without PAD. We used unsupervised clustering to define PAD phenotypes and trained a LightGBM classifier using 14,023 features spanning demographics, comorbidities, medications, laboratory values, healthcare utilization, and diagnosis, procedure, and medication codes. We evaluated performance overall and across demographic groups and phenotypes, and assessed fairness using selection rates and subgroup differences in true- and false-positive rates. Results: The study included 33,739 cases and 33,739 matched controls. Clustering identified four phenotypes: patients with limited healthcare documentation (cluster 1), younger patients with severe metabolic disease (cluster 2), patients with a traditional atherosclerotic risk profile (cluster 3), and frail elderly patients with multimorbidity (cluster 4). Overall, the model demonstrated consistent performance across institutions (AUROC 0.76-0.79; AUC-PR 0.76-0.79) with well-calibrated probabilities. Performance was similar across genders, with modest variation by race and age, and was stronger in clusters 2-4. Cluster 2 demonstrated the highest sensitivity (TPR 0.87, 95% CI 0.87-0.88), while cluster 1 showed the lowest performance (TPR 0.40, 95% CI 0.39-0.41). Conclusions: The EHR-based PAD detection model demonstrated consistent performance across five health systems. Phenotypic clustering revealed clinically meaningful differences in model performance adding an additional consideration in ML fairness and performance evaluations.
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