A Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Peripheral Artery Disease Prediction and Real-Time Applications
Received: 26 January 2025 | Revised: 28 February 2025 | Accepted: 6 March 2025 | Online: 4 June 2025
Corresponding author: Srikantaswamy Mallikarjunaswamy
Abstract
Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is a common and serious circulatory problem for which early and definite diagnosis is necessary to prevent further health complications. The existing diagnostic techniques of Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) and Doppler ultrasound have several disadvantages: the examination is operator-dependent, the processing times are long, and may be inapplicable or have adaptability in complicated cases. The use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques, such as Support Vector Machines and Random Forest, to overcome these issues, may face problems handling real-time application and non-homogeneous data. The research at hand overcomes such challenges by proposing a Hybrid ML Algorithm for Peripheral Artery Prediction (HMAPAP) based on GBM combined with LSTM networks. The proposed method improved the diagnostic accuracy by 0.25%, processing efficiency by 0.20%, and real-time adaptability by 0.30%, of the traditional ML methods.
Keywords:
peripheral artery disease, hybrid machine learning, prediction model, gradient boosting, LSTM, real-time diagnosis, healthcare analytics, hybrid MLDownloads
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