Improved propensity matching for heart failure using neural gas and self-organizing maps

Leif E. Peterson, Sameer Ather, Vijay Divakaran, Anita Deswal, Biykem Bozkurt, Douglas L. Mann

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Abstract

We studied heart failure mortality and hospitalization of N=7,788 subjects in the Digitalis Intervention Group (DIG) clinical trial. Cases were defined as subjects with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV symptoms, while controls were defined as subjects with NYHA class I-II symptomatology. Controls were propensity matched with cases using logits from logistic regression, best winning nodes for neural gas and self-organizing maps, and k-means cluster analysis. Cox proportional hazards (PH) regression models were ran to determine the all-cause mortality and hospitalization hazard ratio (HR) for having NYHA functional class III-IV. Unmatched data resulted in a mortality HR of 1.28 (95% CI, 1.17-1.41), while logitbased propensity matching resulted in a mortality HR of 1.29 (95% CI, 1.15-1.44). When neural gas (NG) was used for propensity matching with normalized and standardized features, the mortality HR was 1.34 (95% CI, 1.19-1.50) and 1.05 (95% CI, 0.94-1.17), respectively. Propensity matching with self-organized maps (SOM) and normalized and standardized features yielded mortality HRs of 1.31 (95% CI, 1.16-1.46) and 1.05 (95% CI, 0.94-1.17), respectively. Crisp K-means cluster-based matching performed worse and biased the HRs towards the null value of HR=1. The strongest influence of matching was observed for NG when normalized features were used.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2009
Pages2517-2524
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2009 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: Jun 14 2009Jun 19 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Conference

Conference2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period06/14/0906/19/09

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