Paper by Maria Athanasiou, Konstantina Sfrintzeri, Konstantia Zarkogianni, Anastasia Thanopoulou, and Konstantina Nikita receives the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE BIBE 2020
A paper entitled “An Explainable XGBoost-Based Approach Towards Assessing the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” was presented on October 28, 2020, in the [20th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics And BioEngineering (BIBE)](https://www.ieeebibe2020.org/), and received the Best Student Paper Award. The paper proposes an explainable personalized risk prediction model for the fatal or non-fatal CVD incidence in individuals with Type 2 Diabetes. An explainable approach based on the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and the Tree SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) method is deployed for the calculation of the 5-year CVD risk and the generation of individual explanations on the model’s decisions. Data from the 5- year follow up of 560 patients with T2DM are used for development and evaluation purposes. The obtained results (AUC=71.13%) indicate the potential of the proposed approach to handle the unbalanced nature of the used dataset, while providing clinically meaningful insights about the model’s decision process.
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