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May 22, 2026Digital HealthOpen Access

Advancing ST-elevated myocardial infarction mortality risk prediction in Asian populations through explainable and calibrated machine learning

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Why the study?

Do explainable machine learning models improve in-hospital mortality prediction compared to the TIMI risk score in Asian STEMI patients?

Population

49,574 Asian STEMI patients in the Malaysian National Cardiovascular Disease registry (2006–2021)

Comparison

Explainable, well-calibrated machine learning… vs TIMI risk score

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

in-hospital

Authors

SKS KasimLFLim Bing FengPRPutri Nur Fatin Amir Rudin

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Overview

Calibrated ML models outperform TIMI for Asian STEMI in-hospital mortality prediction; extends explainable, calibrated tools for risk stratification in underrepresented populations.

Structured PICO

Do explainable machine learning models improve in-hospital mortality prediction compared to the TIMI risk score in Asian STEMI patients?

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Population
49,574 Asian STEMI patients in the Malaysian National Cardiovascular Disease registry (2006–2021)
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Intervention
Explainable, well-calibrated machine learning models (including calibrated logistic regression)
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Comparator
TIMI risk score
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Outcome
In-hospital mortality predictionhard clinical

A calibrated logistic regression model with SHAP-based explainability significantly outperformed the traditional TIMI score for predicting in-hospital mortality in Asian STEMI patients.

Cite This Study

Kasim et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0ff327d674f7c03778bb2ahttps://doi.org/10.1177/20552076261426306
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