The study evaluates several machine‑learning classifiers for predicting heart disease using two public datasets, each with 14 health‑related attributes. Performance metrics such as MAE, RAE, accuracy, precision, recall, and F‑measure were used, revealing that SVM performed best on the UCI data while Simple Cart excelled on the Kaggle data. The authors conclude that well‑tuned ML models can aid early heart‑disease diagnosis and suggest future work on hybrid methods and newer datasets.
By Sami Ullah, Muhammad Mohsin Khan
arXiv:2606. 16337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive modeling for clinical tabular data is central to clinical decision support and therefore requires not only strong predictive performance but also transparent decision logic.
By Wei Xu, Ke Yang, Gang Luo, Keli Zheng, Lingyan Hu, Jing Wang, Kefeng Li
arXiv:2601. 00175v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Objective: Develop and evaluate machine learning (ML) models for predicting incident liver cirrhosis (LC) one and two years prior to diagnosis using routinely collected electronic health record (EHR) data and benchmark their performance against the FIB-4 and APRI clinical scores.
By Zhuqi Miao, Ahmed G Qasem, Sujan Ravi, Jason T. Cheng, Abdulaziz Ahmed, Courtney W. Houchen, Sumayah Abed, Dilorom Azimdjanovna Zuparova, Abdulaziz Ahmed
arXiv:2607. 00472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiovascular disease is still one of the main causes of death around the world.
By Sagnik Ghosh
arXiv:2601. 22324v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern clinical practice relies on evidence-based guidelines implemented as compact scoring systems composed of a small number of interpretable decision rules.
By Silas Ruhrberg Est\'evez, Christopher Chiu, Mihaela van der Schaar
arXiv:2603. 02221v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In clinical tabular prediction, classical machine learning models with feature engineering often outperform neural methods.
By Zizheng Zhang, Yiming Li, Justin Xu, Jinyu Wang, Rui Wang, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, David W Eyre, Jingjing Fu
arXiv:2607. 15394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box models limit the adoption of artificial intelligence in medicine due to their lack of interpretability and reproducibility.
By Antony Garcia, Adrian Noriega, Gabrielle Britton, Xinming Huang
The paper introduces a statistically grounded framework for interpretable, rule-based clinical classification using Bernoulli Naïve Bayes (BNB). It employs supervised chi‑square‑guided binarization to convert continuous medical variables into binary indicators, enabling BNB to handle continuous data while maintaining transparency. On three benchmark datasets—Pima Indians Diabetes, Wisconsin Breast Cancer, and Heart Failure Prediction—the method achieved AUCs of 0.800, 0.984, and 0.919, respectively, and demonstrated reliable probability calibration through cross‑validated analysis and post‑hoc beta calibration.
By Antony Garcia, Adrian Noriega, Gabrielle Britton, Xinming Huang
The paper introduces a four-step pipeline that mines decision rules in the latent space of an FT-Transformer and then translates those rules back into measurable clinical features. By treating embedding dimensions that separate patient groups as latent biomarkers, small decision trees are used to extract rules, which are then mapped to raw features using gradient-input saliency and CLS attention attribution. Across six public clinical datasets, the translated rules generally outperformed raw-feature rules, achieving significant AUROC gains, though some high-performing latent rules could not be fully captured by simple raw-feature conditions.
By Majid Lotfian Delouee, Hamed Ayoobi, Sjors G. J. G. In 't Veld, Martijn C. Schut
arXiv:2607. 08299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and timely diagnoses are essential for quality patient care.
By Abu Rafe Md Jamil, Nayan Malakar
arXiv:2606. 26561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by a virus, which results in mild to severe inflammation of the liver.
By Abrar Alotaibi, Lujain Alnajrani, Nawal Alsheikh, Alhatoon Alanazy, Salam Alshammasi, Meshael Almusairii, Shoog Alrassan, Aisha Alansari
arXiv:2606. 20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models are predominantly evaluated through predictive performance metrics such as ranking quality, prediction error, or classification accuracy.
By Guillaume Olivier Delplanque (LIG), Pierre Genev\`es (LIG), Nabil Laya\"ida (LIG,TYREX), Zephirin Faure