Predicting Progression of Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease
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Author(s)
Li, Jonathan
Advisor(s)
Szolovits, Peter
Date Issued
May 2025
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This work focuses on the progression from metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, a more serious prognosis that can lead to liver failure and death. Additional adverse progressed outcomes include hepatic failure, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and malignant neoplasm of liver and intrahepatic bile ducts. We explore the possibility of using different machine learning techniques, including logistic regression, XGBoost, random forest, and decision trees to predict the likelihood of progression. We use data from Massachusetts General Brigham to train our models, incorporating demographics, physical measurements, lab results, and doctor notes. As a result of this project, we our best model was an XGBoost classifier with an AUROC of 0.800 with random forest at a similar performance of 0.786. However, all of our models had low AUPRC and sensitivity, indicating both overfitting and an imbalanced dataset.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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