Machine learning-based phenogrouping in heart failure to identify responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy : Machine learning-based approach to patient selection for CRT

Cikes, Maja;Sanchez-Martinez, Sergio;Claggett, Brian;Duchateau, Nicolas;Bijnens, Bart;et.al.
(2019) European Journal of Heart Failure — Vol. 21, n° 1, p. 74-85 (2019)

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  • Cikes, Maja
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  • Sanchez-Martinez, Sergio
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  • Claggett, Brian
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  • Duchateau, Nicolas
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  • Pouleur, Anne-CatherineUCLouvain
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  • Bijnens, Bart
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AIMS: We tested the hypothesis that a machine learning (ML) algorithm utilizing both complex echocardiographic data and clinical parameters could be used to phenogroup a heart failure (HF) cohort and identify patients with beneficial response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). METHODS AND RESULTS: We studied 1106 HF patients from the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT) (left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 30%, QRS ≥ 130 ms, New York Heart Association class ≤ II) randomized to CRT with a defibrillator (CRT-D, n = 677) or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD, n = 429). An unsupervised ML algorithm (Multiple Kernel Learning and K-means clustering) was used to categorize subjects by similarities in clinical parameters, and left ventricular volume and deformation traces at baseline into mutually exclusive groups. The treatment effect of CRT-D on the primary outcome (all-cause death or HF event) and on volume response was compared among these groups. Our analysis identified four phenogroups, significantly different in the majority of baseline clinical characteristics, biomarker values, measures of left and right ventricular structure and function and the primary outcome occurrence. Two phenogroups included a higher proportion of known clinical characteristics predictive of CRT response, and were associated with a substantially better treatment effect of CRT-D on the primary outcome [hazard ratio (HR) 0.35; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.19-0.64; P = 0.0005 and HR 0.36; 95% CI 0.19-0.68; P = 0.001] than observed in the other groups (interaction P = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: Our results serve as a proof-of-concept that, by integrating clinical parameters and full heart cycle imaging data, unsupervised ML can provide a clinically meaningful classification of a phenotypically heterogeneous HF cohort and might aid in optimizing the rate of responders to specific therapies.
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Cikes, M., Sanchez-Martinez, S., Claggett, B., Duchateau, N., Piella, G., Butakoff, C., Pouleur, A.-C., Knappe, D., Biering-Sørensen, T., Kutyifa, V., Moss, A., Stein, K., Solomon, S. D., & Bijnens, B. (2019). Machine learning-based phenogrouping in heart failure to identify responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy : Machine learning-based approach to patient selection for CRT. European Journal of Heart Failure, 21(1), 74-85. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1333 (Original work published 2019)