TY - JOUR
T1 - Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Kaplan–Meier Analyses Estimating Survival after Elective Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
AU - Kiessling, Jonas
AU - Brunnberg, Aston
AU - Holte, Gustaf
AU - Eldrup, Nikolaj
AU - Sörelius, Karl
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2023-03-06
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2019-CRG8-4033.2
Acknowledgements: This work was partially supported by the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award numbers OSR-2019-CRG8-4033.2
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2023/1/21
Y1 - 2023/1/21
N2 - Objective: Long term differences in survival after elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) between open surgical repair (OSR) and endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) are unclear, and hitherto artificial intelligence has not been used for this purpose. The aim was to compare the precision of survival estimates between the Kaplan–Meier (KM) method and the artificial intelligence derived method Neural Multi-Task Logistic Regression (N-MTLR), and to compare survival estimates as a function of patient age and time since surgery between OSR and EVAR using N-MTLR.
Methods: All AAAs between 2003 and 2018 in Denmark were identified in the Danish vascular registry. Survival was estimated using the KM and N-MTLR methods, and prediction performance was estimated with the Brier score.
Results: 7 912 patients were included in the study, n = 6 569 (83%) men, median age 72 years (range 35 – 92), with a median follow-up time of 45.7 months (range 0 – 120). The two treatment cohorts, OSR n = 5 495 (69%), and EVAR n = 2 417 (31%), differed significantly in patient characteristics. The Brier score for KM increased from 0.044 to 0.244, and for N-MTLR from 0.044 to 0.206, from 90 days to 10 years. The N-MTLR method was more accurate than KM from 90 days to 10 years after surgery, p ≤ .025. N-MTLR demonstrated significant increased probability for survival for OSR in patients aged 58 – 76 years at five years, and 65 – 73 at 10 years after surgery, and the opposite was found for the benefit of EVAR in patients aged 72 – 85 years at one year, 85 – 90 years at five years, and for 85 – 90 year olds at 10 years after surgery.
Conclusion: N-MTLR outperforms KM for the entire post-operative follow-up time. This N-MTLR model has the potential to render more precise patient specific survival estimates and establish survival differences between subgroups of patients that KM is unable to detect, demonstrated here for different age groups.
AB - Objective: Long term differences in survival after elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) between open surgical repair (OSR) and endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) are unclear, and hitherto artificial intelligence has not been used for this purpose. The aim was to compare the precision of survival estimates between the Kaplan–Meier (KM) method and the artificial intelligence derived method Neural Multi-Task Logistic Regression (N-MTLR), and to compare survival estimates as a function of patient age and time since surgery between OSR and EVAR using N-MTLR.
Methods: All AAAs between 2003 and 2018 in Denmark were identified in the Danish vascular registry. Survival was estimated using the KM and N-MTLR methods, and prediction performance was estimated with the Brier score.
Results: 7 912 patients were included in the study, n = 6 569 (83%) men, median age 72 years (range 35 – 92), with a median follow-up time of 45.7 months (range 0 – 120). The two treatment cohorts, OSR n = 5 495 (69%), and EVAR n = 2 417 (31%), differed significantly in patient characteristics. The Brier score for KM increased from 0.044 to 0.244, and for N-MTLR from 0.044 to 0.206, from 90 days to 10 years. The N-MTLR method was more accurate than KM from 90 days to 10 years after surgery, p ≤ .025. N-MTLR demonstrated significant increased probability for survival for OSR in patients aged 58 – 76 years at five years, and 65 – 73 at 10 years after surgery, and the opposite was found for the benefit of EVAR in patients aged 72 – 85 years at one year, 85 – 90 years at five years, and for 85 – 90 year olds at 10 years after surgery.
Conclusion: N-MTLR outperforms KM for the entire post-operative follow-up time. This N-MTLR model has the potential to render more precise patient specific survival estimates and establish survival differences between subgroups of patients that KM is unable to detect, demonstrated here for different age groups.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/689991
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S107858842300062X
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148701710&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejvs.2023.01.028
DO - 10.1016/j.ejvs.2023.01.028
M3 - Article
C2 - 36693560
SN - 1078-5884
JO - European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
JF - European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
ER -