Early Mortality Prediction in ICU Patients with Hypertensive Kidney Disease Using Interpretable Machine Learning

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Main Authors: Si, Yong, Fan, Junyi, Sun, Li, Chen, Shuheng, Ahmadi, Minoo, Pishgar, Elham, Alaei, Kamiar, Placencia, Greg, Pishgar, Maryam
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author Si, Yong
Fan, Junyi
Sun, Li
Chen, Shuheng
Ahmadi, Minoo
Pishgar, Elham
Alaei, Kamiar
Placencia, Greg
Pishgar, Maryam
author_facet Si, Yong
Fan, Junyi
Sun, Li
Chen, Shuheng
Ahmadi, Minoo
Pishgar, Elham
Alaei, Kamiar
Placencia, Greg
Pishgar, Maryam
contents Background: Hypertensive kidney disease (HKD) patients in intensive care units (ICUs) face high short-term mortality, but tailored risk prediction tools are lacking. Early identification of high-risk individuals is crucial for clinical decision-making. Methods: We developed a machine learning framework to predict 30-day in-hospital mortality among ICU patients with HKD using early clinical data from the MIMIC-IV v2.2 database. A cohort of 1,366 adults was curated with strict criteria, excluding malignancy cases. Eighteen clinical features-including vital signs, labs, comorbidities, and therapies-were selected via random forest importance and mutual information filtering. Several models were trained and compared with stratified five-fold cross-validation; CatBoost demonstrated the best performance. Results: CatBoost achieved an AUROC of 0.88 on the independent test set, with sensitivity of 0.811 and specificity of 0.798. SHAP values and Accumulated Local Effects (ALE) plots showed the model relied on meaningful predictors such as altered consciousness, vasopressor use, and coagulation status. Additionally, the DREAM algorithm was integrated to estimate patient-specific posterior risk distributions, allowing clinicians to assess both predicted mortality and its uncertainty. Conclusions: We present an interpretable machine learning pipeline for early, real-time risk assessment in ICU patients with HKD. By combining high predictive performance with uncertainty quantification, our model supports individualized triage and transparent clinical decisions. This approach shows promise for clinical deployment and merits external validation in broader critical care populations.
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spellingShingle Early Mortality Prediction in ICU Patients with Hypertensive Kidney Disease Using Interpretable Machine Learning
Si, Yong
Fan, Junyi
Sun, Li
Chen, Shuheng
Ahmadi, Minoo
Pishgar, Elham
Alaei, Kamiar
Placencia, Greg
Pishgar, Maryam
Machine Learning
Background: Hypertensive kidney disease (HKD) patients in intensive care units (ICUs) face high short-term mortality, but tailored risk prediction tools are lacking. Early identification of high-risk individuals is crucial for clinical decision-making. Methods: We developed a machine learning framework to predict 30-day in-hospital mortality among ICU patients with HKD using early clinical data from the MIMIC-IV v2.2 database. A cohort of 1,366 adults was curated with strict criteria, excluding malignancy cases. Eighteen clinical features-including vital signs, labs, comorbidities, and therapies-were selected via random forest importance and mutual information filtering. Several models were trained and compared with stratified five-fold cross-validation; CatBoost demonstrated the best performance. Results: CatBoost achieved an AUROC of 0.88 on the independent test set, with sensitivity of 0.811 and specificity of 0.798. SHAP values and Accumulated Local Effects (ALE) plots showed the model relied on meaningful predictors such as altered consciousness, vasopressor use, and coagulation status. Additionally, the DREAM algorithm was integrated to estimate patient-specific posterior risk distributions, allowing clinicians to assess both predicted mortality and its uncertainty. Conclusions: We present an interpretable machine learning pipeline for early, real-time risk assessment in ICU patients with HKD. By combining high predictive performance with uncertainty quantification, our model supports individualized triage and transparent clinical decisions. This approach shows promise for clinical deployment and merits external validation in broader critical care populations.
title Early Mortality Prediction in ICU Patients with Hypertensive Kidney Disease Using Interpretable Machine Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18866