TY - JOUR AU - Chicco, Davide AU - Jurman, Giuseppe PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/03 TI - Machine learning can predict survival of patients with heart failure from serum creatinine and ejection fraction alone JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 16 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Cardiovascular diseases kill approximately 17 million people globally every year, and they mainly exhibit as myocardial infarctions and heart failures. Heart failure (HF) occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the needs of the body.Available electronic medical records of patients quantify symptoms, body features, and clinical laboratory test values, which can be used to perform biostatistics analysis aimed at highlighting patterns and correlations otherwise undetectable by medical doctors. Machine learning, in particular, can predict patients’ survival from their data and can individuate the most important features among those included in their medical records. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-1023-5 DO - 10.1186/s12911-020-1023-5 ID - Chicco2020 ER -