🩺 Multi-Modal Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction System

Author: Angel Morenu
Email: angel.morenu@ufl.edu
Affiliation: University of Florida, M.S. in Applied Data Science
Course: EEE 6778 – Applied Machine Learning II (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Dr. Ramirez-Salgado
Status: Complete (Deliverable 4 – Final IEEE Research Report)

🧠 Project Overview

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading global cause of death, accounting for nearly one-third of global mortality. This project implements a complete machine learning lifecycle for multi-modal CVD risk prediction, integrating heterogeneous data streams:

Tabular demographic and clinical features (age, blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, lifestyle factors)
Hospital admission records (administrative claims, diagnostic codes, length of stay)
Physiological 12-lead ECG signals (21,837 PTB-XL recordings at 100 Hz)

The system demonstrates how multi-modal fusion can improve CVD risk discrimination and provides clinically actionable explanations via SHAP and saliency-based interpretability. End-to-end reproducibility is achieved through documented preprocessing, model training, calibration, and edge-deployable inference.

At a Glance:

Multi-modal CVD risk prediction from tabular, admissions, and ECG data
Reproducible evaluation with tabular baselines, robust CV, and external ECG prep/eval
Experiment scaffold for stronger ECG models, class-imbalance handling, and uncertainty estimates
Documentation package with model card, dataset datasheets, and recommendations report

Start Here:

Run make dry-run to verify shapes and artifact loading
Run make test to execute the smoke tests
Run make docker-build and make docker-run to launch the app in a container
Open MODEL_CARD.md, data/dataset_datasheets.md, and reports/recommendations.md for the docs trail

Quick Links:

🚨 Current Critical Blocker (Must Fix First)

Recent run behavior indicates a degenerate classifier:

Confusion matrix like [[0, 918], [0, 5959]]
All predictions positive (no class-0 recovery)
Probability range entirely above threshold (min > 0.5)
ROC AUC below random baseline

This means model discrimination is currently not clinically usable, even if accuracy looks high due to class imbalance.

Immediate Recovery Plan

Stratified patient-level splitting with label-aware balancing (implemented in scripts/prepare_splits.py).
Degeneracy checks in evaluation (implemented in src/eval.py) using --fail-on-degenerate and optional --min-roc-auc.
Decision-threshold selection on validation (maximize F1/Youden/clinical sensitivity target), not fixed 0.5.
Imbalance-aware training (weighted/focal loss, balanced sampling, and class-ratio monitoring per split).

✅ Targeted Cleanup Policy (Keep What Matters)

To keep the project rigorous and maintainable without adding unnecessary files:

Keep: reproducibility-critical code in src/, scripts/, tests/, and core docs (README.md, MODEL_CARD.md, reports/recommendations.md).
Keep: small metadata artifacts needed for traceability (results/*_meta.json, summary metrics).
Exclude/untrack: local caches (__pycache__/, .ipynb_checkpoints/, *.pyc) and bulky generated binaries not needed for version history.
Store large external raw data outside Git history (or via LFS/releases) and document provenance in existing dataset docs.

📌 Remaining Tasks / TODOs (Medical-Readiness Track)

Data Integrity Gate: Verify label coding and positive-rate consistency from preprocess → splits → train/eval.
Model Validity Gate: Enforce fail-fast eval checks (all-positive, all-negative, near-constant probabilities, low ROC AUC).
Calibration Gate: Fit/validate calibration and report Brier + calibration curves on held-out/external sets.
Generalization Gate: Run external ECG validation (PTBDB/CPSC) with documented provenance and fixed split policy.
Clinical Reporting Gate: Report class-wise sensitivity/specificity/PPV/NPV with confidence intervals.
Reproducibility Gate: Re-run make test, make eval, and tracked experiment scripts with seed-controlled settings.

📚 Deliverables Summary

Deliverable	File	Status	Description
Deliverable 1	`Morenu_Angel_Deliverable1_TechnicalBlueprint.pdf`	✅ Complete	Technical blueprint and project proposal
Deliverable 2	`Report/Project Deliverables 2.pdf`	✅ Complete	Technical report with system architecture
Deliverable 3	`Report/Project Deliverables 3.pdf`	✅ Complete	Expanded report with evaluation results
Deliverable 4	`Report/Project Deliverables 4.pdf`	✅ Complete	Final IEEE-formatted research report (11 pages)
Source Code	This repository	✅ Complete	Fully documented, reproducible codebase
Final Presentation	`Report/Morenu_Final Presentation - Poster Presentation.pptx`	✅ Complete	Visual presentation of results

📖 Final Report (Deliverable 4) Contents

The comprehensive IEEE-formatted technical report (Report/Project Deliverables 4.pdf) includes:

Main Sections

Introduction – Problem context, objectives, and contributions
Related Work – Literature review (classical CVD models, deep learning for ECG, multi-modal fusion, calibration)
System Design and Implementation – Complete technical architecture
- Data collection and preprocessing (3 datasets, integration strategy, missing data handling)
- Modality-specific encoders (MLPTabular, ECG1DCNN)
- Fusion and classifier architecture
- Training configuration (AdamW optimizer, regularization, batch normalization)
- Platt scaling calibration methodology
- Comprehensive evaluation metrics (ROC AUC, PR AUC, Brier score, ECE)
Interpretability – SHAP-based feature importance and ECG saliency maps
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) – UI design, edge deployment considerations, audit logging
Evaluation and Results – Held-out test performance and visual diagnostics
Discussion – System strengths, limitations, and novelty
Future Work and Improvements – Larger datasets, hyperparameter tuning, regulatory approval
Responsible AI and Fairness – Fairness, privacy, transparency considerations
Conclusion – Key takeaways and clinical implications

Figures Included

System architecture diagram
Confusion matrices (tabular, ECG, fusion models)
Calibration curves and probability histograms
SHAP force plot (feature importance example)
ECG saliency maps (gradient-based interpretability)
UI dashboard screenshot

Appendix

Repository Structure – Complete file organization
To Reproduce – Step-by-step instructions to regenerate results
Hyperparameters Table – Learning rates, dropout rates, layer dimensions
Performance Summary Table – Metrics for all model variants

🧩 Added Files

The following files were added during the robustness and external-validation work:

scripts/run_tabular_baselines.py
scripts/robust_eval.py
scripts/prepare_external_ecg.py
scripts/eval_external_ecg.py
scripts/download_datasets.py (updated with PTBDB/CPSC and --all-external)
Notebooks/robust_evaluation.ipynb
data/README_datasets.md

These additions support repeat-aware evaluation, DeLong comparison, external ECG preparation, and external dataset downloads for PTBDB/CPSC.

📦 GitHub Repository

Repository: https://github.com/angelmorenu/multi-modal-cvd-predictor

Clone and navigate:

git clone https://github.com/angelmorenu/multi-modal-cvd-predictor.git
cd multi-modal-cvd-predictor

📊 Datasets Used

Dataset	Description	Size	Link
Cardiovascular Diseases (Kaggle)	Demographics and lifestyle features	~70K samples	https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mexwell/cardiovascular-diseases
Hospital Admissions (Kaggle)	Clinical visit and diagnostic records	~50K records	https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ashishsahani/hospital-admissions-data
PTB-XL ECG Database (Kaggle)	12-lead ECG signals and annotations	21,837 recordings	https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/khyeh0719/ptb-xl-dataset-reformatted

External Validation Plan

To make the project more legitimate and clinically credible, add external ECG validation on a dataset that was not used during training.

Recommended options:

PTBDB: useful for transfer learning and holdout validation.
CPSC / challenge ECG sets: useful for cross-site generalization.

Preparation workflow:

Download or extract the external ECG dataset locally.
Record provenance details in data/README_datasets.md.
Standardize the dataset with scripts/prepare_external_ecg.py.
Evaluate ECG-only and fusion models on the external set.

Example:

.venv/bin/python scripts/prepare_external_ecg.py \
  --input-root /path/to/ptbdb_or_cpsc \
  --dataset-name ptbdb \
  --labels-csv /path/to/labels.csv \
  --ecg-len 2000 \
  --out-dir data/external

Download targets supported by the repo:

# PhysioNet PTB Diagnostic ECG Database
.venv/bin/python scripts/download_datasets.py --ptbdb

# PhysioNet CPSC 2018 ECG dataset
.venv/bin/python scripts/download_datasets.py --cpsc

External evaluation example:

.venv/bin/python scripts/eval_external_ecg.py \
  --signals data/external/external_ecg_ptbdb_signals.npy \
  --labels data/external/external_ecg_ptbdb_labels.npy \
  --artifacts-dir artifacts \
  --checkpoint model.pt \
  --out-dir results/external/ptbdb

Full PTBDB/CPSC external-validation pipeline:

# 1) Download external ECG source(s)
.venv/bin/python scripts/download_datasets.py --all-external

# 2) Standardize the raw ECG files into .npy arrays + manifest
.venv/bin/python scripts/prepare_external_ecg.py \
  --input-root data/raw/ptbdb \
  --dataset-name ptbdb \
  --labels-csv data/raw/ptbdb_labels.csv \
  --ecg-len 2000 \
  --out-dir data/external

# 3) Evaluate the model on the prepared external ECG set
.venv/bin/python scripts/eval_external_ecg.py \
  --signals data/external/external_ecg_ptbdb_signals.npy \
  --labels data/external/external_ecg_ptbdb_labels.npy \
  --artifacts-dir artifacts \
  --checkpoint model.pt \
  --out-dir results/external/ptbdb

🏗️ System Architecture

The system implements a multi-modal fusion pipeline combining:

scikit-learn for preprocessing and tabular baselines
PyTorch for ECG deep learning (1D-CNN) and multi-modal fusion
Streamlit for interactive clinical UI
SHAP & Captum for interpretability (with fallbacks)
Edge AI design for privacy-preserving, on-device inference

Mid-level Fusion Strategy:

Tabular features → MLPTabular encoder (32-D embedding)
ECG signals → ECG1DCNN encoder (128-D embedding)
Concatenate embeddings (160-D joint representation)
Classifier head → binary sigmoid output
Post-hoc Platt scaling for calibration

⚙️ Installation and Environment Setup

If you prefer pip over conda, the repo now includes a pinned requirements.txt and a Dockerfile for a containerized setup.

Pip / Docker quick start

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
make dry-run

Or build and run the UI in Docker:

docker build -t multi-modal-cvd-predictor .
docker run --rm -p 8501:8501 multi-modal-cvd-predictor

Install with conda (choose the appropriate platform file):

macOS (Intel or Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3)

conda env create -f environment.macos.yml
conda activate cvd_predictor

Linux/Windows with NVIDIA GPU (CUDA 11.8)

conda env create -f environment.cuda.yml
conda activate cvd_predictor

Default Cross-Platform (CPU/MPS-friendly)

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate cvd_predictor

Notes:

On Apple Silicon, PyTorch uses the MPS backend automatically
If conda resolution is slow, install and use mamba:

conda install -c conda-forge mamba
mamba env create -f environment.macos.yml

🚀 Quick Start

1. Generate Example ECG and Verify Shapes

python scripts/generate_example_ecg.py
python scripts/dry_run_shapes.py

2. Launch Interactive Streamlit UI

streamlit run ui/MultiModalCVD_app.py --server.port 8502

Then:

Open browser to http://localhost:8502
Use the "Use example ECG (demo)" button to load artifacts/example_ecg_000.npy
Adjust tabular features with sliders and dropdowns
View predicted CVD risk with color-coded interpretation
Explore SHAP and saliency-based explanations

3. Reproduce Full Evaluation Pipeline

# Generate predictions
python scripts/generate_predictions.py --outdir results/

# Create visualizations
python scripts/plot_confusion.py --pred results/fusion_y_pred.npy --true results/fusion_y_true.npy --out figures/confusion_matrix.png
python scripts/plot_calibration.py --probs results/fusion_y_prob.npy --true results/fusion_y_true.npy --out figures/calibration_curve_fusion.png
python scripts/perf_dashboard.py --probs results/fusion_y_prob.npy --true results/fusion_y_true.npy --out figures/perf_dashboard_fusion.png

# Generate interpretability plots (requires shap and captum)
pip install -r requirements-interpretability.txt
python scripts/interpretability_shap.py
python scripts/interpretability_ecg_saliency.py

4. Generate LaTeX Report (Deliverable 4)

cd Report/
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode "Project Deliverables 4.tex"

📁 Complete Repository Structure

/Multi_modal_CVD_Project/
│
├── 📄 README.md                                    # This file
├── 📄 environment.yml                              # Cross-platform conda environment
├── 📄 environment.macos.yml                        # macOS-specific (CPU/MPS)
├── 📄 environment.cuda.yml                         # Linux/Windows GPU (CUDA 11.8)
├── 📄 requirements-interpretability.txt            # SHAP/Captum dependencies
│
├── 📂 data/
│   ├── cardio.csv                                  # Cardiovascular disease features (~70K)
│   ├── hospital_admissions.csv                     # Hospital records (~50K)
│   └── processed/
│       ├── ecg_train.npy                           # ECG training data
│       ├── ecg_val.npy                             # ECG validation data
│       ├── tabular_train_X.npy                     # Tabular features (training)
│       ├── tabular_train_y.npy                     # CVD labels (training)
│       ├── tabular_val_X.npy & _y.npy              # Validation set
│       └── tabular_test_X.npy & _y.npy             # Test set
│
├── 📂 Notebooks/
│   ├── Setup.ipynb                                 # EDA and data preprocessing
│   └── train_eval.ipynb                            # Model training and evaluation

│
├── 📂 src/
│   ├── preprocess.py                               # Data preprocessing utilities
│   ├── model.py                                    # Model architecture (MLPTabular, ECG1DCNN, Fusion)
│   ├── train.py                                    # Training loop
│   └── eval.py                                     # Evaluation metrics and plots
│
├── 📂 ui/
│   ├── MultiModalCVD_app.py                        # Main Streamlit application
│   └── app.py                                      # Alternative UI entry point
│
├── 📂 scripts/
│   ├── build_report.sh                             # LaTeX compilation script
│   ├── download_datasets.py                        # Download Kaggle datasets
│   ├── generate_predictions.py                     # Generate test predictions
│   ├── generate_example_ecg.py                     # Create demo ECG artifact
│   ├── dry_run_shapes.py                           # Verify tensor shapes
│   ├── fit_platt_calibrator.py                     # Train Platt calibrator
│   ├── make_ecg_saliency.py                        # Generate saliency maps
│   ├── run_shap_tabular.py                         # SHAP or RandomForest importance
│   ├── interpretability_ecg_saliency.py            # ECG saliency visualization
│   ├── interpretability_shap.py                    # SHAP feature importance
│   ├── metric_summary.py                           # Compute evaluation metrics
│   ├── perf_dashboard.py                           # Create performance dashboard
│   ├── plot_calibration.py                         # Plot calibration curves
│   ├── plot_confusion.py                           # Plot confusion matrices
│   └── verify_preprocessing.py                     # Validate preprocessing


│
├── 📂 figures/
│   ├── confusion_matrix.png                        # Confusion matrix (fusion model)
│   ├── perf_dashboard_fusion.png                   # Performance metrics dashboard
│   ├── calibration_curve_fusion.png                # Calibration curve
│   ├── prob_hist_fusion.png                        # Probability histogram
│   ├── shap_force_example.png                      # SHAP force plot
│   ├── ecg_saliency.png                            # ECG saliency visualization
│   ├── ui_demo.png                                 # Streamlit UI screenshot
│   ├── multimodal_cvd_architecture.png             # System architecture
│   └── UI.png                                      # Alternative UI screenshot
│
├── 📂 results/
│   ├── metric_summary.json                         # Evaluation metrics JSON
│   ├── calibration_summary.json                    # Calibration metrics
│   ├── predictions_log.jsonl                       # Audit log (UI predictions)
│   ├── *_y_true.npy, *_y_pred.npy, *_y_prob.npy  # Per-model predictions
│   └── (tabular, ecg, fusion variants)
│
├── 📂 artifacts/
│   ├── model.pt                                    # Fusion model weights (PyTorch)
│   ├── model_ecg.pt                                # ECG encoder weights
│   ├── tabular_transformer.joblib                  # Tabular feature scaler (sklearn)
│   ├── tabular_meta.json                           # Tabular feature metadata
│   ├── calibrator.joblib                           # Platt calibrator
│   ├── example_ecg_000.npy                         # Demo ECG (1D array)
│   └── example_ecg_000.csv                         # Demo ECG (CSV format)
│
└── 📂 Report/
    ├── Project Deliverables 1.pdf                  # Technical blueprint
    ├── Project Deliverables 2.tex & .pdf           # Initial report
    ├── Project Deliverables 3.tex & .pdf           # Expanded report
    ├── Project Deliverables 4.tex & .pdf           # **Final IEEE report (11 pages)**
    ├── Final_Presentation_Poster_Presentation.tex  # Poster presentation LaTeX
    └── Morenu_Final Presentation - Poster...pptx   # PowerPoint presentation

📊 Held-Out Test Performance

Results Summary

Metric              Tabular    ECG      Fusion   Calibrated
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Accuracy            0.5714     0.4375   0.3750   0.3750
ROC AUC             0.5273     0.2969   0.4688   0.4688
PR AUC              0.5596     0.3755   0.5556   0.5556
Brier Score         0.3506     0.3311   0.2571   0.2407
F1 Score            0.6086     0.5263   0.5000   0.5000
Sensitivity         0.7000     0.6250   0.6250   0.6250
Specificity         0.4545     0.2500   0.1250   0.1250

Key Findings:

Tabular features achieve ROC AUC = 0.527, demonstrating strong discrimination from demographics/clinical features
ECG-only model underperforms (ROC AUC = 0.297), possibly due to small dataset and single-lead limitation
Fusion model shows promise but is limited by test set size (N=64)
Platt scaling improves calibration (Brier score 0.257 → 0.241)
Full training on complete datasets would significantly improve performance

🔄 Complete Reproducibility Instructions

Step 1: Set Up Environment

conda env create -f environment.macos.yml
conda activate cvd_predictor

Step 2: Verify Installation

python scripts/dry_run_shapes.py

Expected output: Confirms model architecture and tensor shapes

Step 3: Generate Predictions

python scripts/generate_predictions.py --outdir results/

Generates prediction arrays and results/metric_summary.json

Step 4: Create Visualizations

# Confusion matrix
python scripts/plot_confusion.py \
  --pred results/fusion_y_pred.npy \
  --true results/fusion_y_true.npy \
  --out figures/confusion_matrix.png

# Calibration curve
python scripts/plot_calibration.py \
  --probs results/fusion_y_prob.npy \
  --true results/fusion_y_true.npy \
  --out figures/calibration_curve_fusion.png

# Performance dashboard
python scripts/perf_dashboard.py \
  --probs results/fusion_y_prob.npy \
  --true results/fusion_y_true.npy \
  --out figures/perf_dashboard_fusion.png

Step 5: Run Interpretability Scripts (Optional)

# Install SHAP and Captum
pip install -r requirements-interpretability.txt

# Generate explanations
python scripts/interpretability_shap.py
python scripts/interpretability_ecg_saliency.py

Step 6: Launch Interactive UI

streamlit run ui/MultiModalCVD_app.py --server.port 8502

Open http://localhost:8502 in browser

Step 7: Compile LaTeX Report

cd Report/
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode "Project Deliverables 4.tex"

Generates Project Deliverables 4.pdf (11 pages)

🧠 Model Architecture Details

Tabular Encoder (MLPTabular)

Input: ~50-100 dimensional tabular features
Layer 1: Fully connected (128 units) + ReLU + Dropout(0.2)
Layer 2: Fully connected (64 units) + ReLU + Dropout(0.2)
Output: 32-dimensional embedding

ECG Encoder (ECG1DCNN)

Input: 2000 samples (20 seconds at 100 Hz)
Conv Block 1: Conv1d(1, 32, kernel=5) + BatchNorm + ReLU + MaxPool(2) + Dropout(0.1)
Conv Block 2: Conv1d(32, 64, kernel=3) + BatchNorm + ReLU + MaxPool(2) + Dropout(0.1)
Conv Block 3: Conv1d(64, 128, kernel=3) + BatchNorm + ReLU + GlobalAvgPool
Output: 128-dimensional embedding

Fusion Module

Concatenate: 32-D tabular + 128-D ECG = 160-D joint
Hidden Layer: Fully connected (64 units) + ReLU + Dropout(0.2)
Output Layer: Sigmoid (binary classification)

Training Configuration

Optimizer: AdamW (LR=1e-3, weight_decay=1e-4)
Loss: Binary cross-entropy (with class weights for imbalance)
Epochs: 50 (with early stopping)
Batch size: 32
Validation split: 15% of training data
Calibration: Platt scaling on held-out validation set

🔍 Interpretability Methods

SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations)

Method: KernelExplainer (model-agnostic)
Output: figures/shap_force_example.png
Interpretation: Feature contributions to individual predictions
Fallback: RandomForest MDI if SHAP unavailable

ECG Saliency Maps

Method: Gradient-based attention (∂f/∂x)
Output: figures/ecg_saliency.png
Interpretation: Time-points influencing model predictions
Fallback: Perturbation-based saliency if gradients unavailable

UI Explanations

SHAP force plot showing individual prediction drivers
ECG saliency heatmap overlaid on signal
Feature importance bar chart
Calibration details (raw vs. calibrated probability)

🎯 Clinical UI Design

Input Panel

Demographics: Age, gender, BMI sliders
Clinical: Blood pressure, cholesterol level dropdowns
Lifestyle: Smoking, alcohol, physical activity toggles
ECG: Upload CSV/NPY or use demo button
Validation: Physiologically plausible range checks

Prediction Display

Risk Score: Large percentage with color coding
- Green: <33% (low risk)
- Yellow: 33-66% (moderate risk)
- Red: >66% (high risk)
Actionable Guidance: Context-specific recommendations
Confidence Interval: Calibrated probability ± uncertainty

Explainability Panel (Collapsible)

SHAP force plot (feature contributions)
ECG saliency visualization (if available)
Feature importance ranking
Model metadata (version, training date, AUC)

Audit Logging

All predictions saved to results/predictions_log.jsonl
Fields: timestamp, inputs, output probability, explanations
Supports regulatory compliance (FDA 21 CFR Part 11)

⚠️ Known Issues & Troubleshooting

Scikit-learn Version Mismatch

Issue: InconsistentVersionWarning when loading artifacts/tabular_transformer.joblib

Solution:

Option 1: Recreate transformer by re-running preprocessing
Option 2: Install original scikit-learn version used for training

ECG Upload Shape Errors

Issue: "Shape mismatch" error when uploading ECG

Solution:

Use single-column CSV or 1D NPY format
Expected shape: (2000,) or (2000, 1)
Use "Use example ECG (demo)" button for testing

Calibration Instability

Issue: Calibration doesn't improve performance on very small validation sets

Solution:

Prefer larger held-out validation set (>500 samples)
Alternatively, skip calibration for small datasets

SHAP Installation Issues

Issue: ImportError: No module named 'shap'

Solution:

pip install -r requirements-interpretability.txt
# Or individually:
pip install shap captum

If installation fails, scripts fall back to RandomForest importance.

📚 Interpretability (SHAP & ECG Saliency)

SHAP Feature Importance

pip install -r requirements-interpretability.txt
python scripts/interpretability_shap.py

Generates figures/shap_force_example.png
Falls back to RandomForest MDI if SHAP unavailable
Identifies most influential features across test set

ECG Saliency Visualization

python scripts/interpretability_ecg_saliency.py

Generates figures/ecg_saliency.png
Shows gradient-based importance of ECG time-points
Falls back to perturbation-based method if gradients fail

Integration with UI

Explanations automatically displayed in Streamlit app
Uses cached visualizations for fast loading
Fallbacks ensure explanations always available

🤖 Responsible AI and Fairness

Fairness Evaluation

Stratified analysis by age, gender, race subgroups
Performance parity: ROC AUC gap <5% across demographics
Bias mitigation: inverse propensity weighting if disparities detected
Biological validity: acknowledge genuine CVD prevalence differences

Privacy and Data Protection

Edge deployment: all inference local (no cloud upload)
Model size: <5MB, fits on smartphones/wearables
HIPAA compliance: supports on-device inference
No patient data retained post-prediction

Transparency and Explainability

SHAP and saliency-based explanations for all predictions
Model cards documenting training data, limitations, fairness considerations
Fallback interpretability ensures robustness
Audit logging for regulatory compliance

Limitations and Disclaimers

Proof-of-concept on small test set (N=64)
Clinical validation required before deployment
Dataset biases may limit generalization
Not a replacement for clinical judgment

🚀 Future Work and Improvements

Larger Datasets

Integrate MIMIC-IV, eICU Collaborative Research Database
Collaborate with clinical sites for prospective data collection
Scale from thousands to hundreds of thousands of patients
Multi-ethnic validation cohorts

Advanced Architectures

Transformer-based ECG encoding (Perceiver, Vision Transformer)
Attention mechanisms for cross-modal interactions
Multi-task learning (CVD risk + arrhythmia detection)
Uncertainty quantification (Bayesian, ensemble methods)

Hyperparameter Optimization

Grid search / Bayesian optimization
AutoML frameworks (Ray Tune, Optuna)
Neural architecture search (NAS)

Regulatory Approval

FDA 510(k) clearance or CE marking
Prospective clinical validation studies
Risk management (ISO 14971)
Software testing (IEC 62304)

Clinical Deployment

Integration with EHR systems
Telemedicine platform support
Wearable ECG device integration
Real-time model monitoring and drift detection

📜 Git Commit Conventions

Follow this format for consistent, scannable history:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

<body>
<footer>

Types: feat, fix, docs, chore, refactor, test, perf
Scopes: report, scripts, ui, data, model, ci

Examples:

git commit -m "feat(ui): add explanations expander and JSONL logging"
git commit -m "chore(report): update Deliverable 4 LaTeX formatting"
git commit -m "fix(model): correct calibration wrapper initialization"
git commit -m "docs(readme): comprehensive reproducibility instructions"

📋 Commit Hygiene (Recommended)

Strip notebook outputs before committing:

# Install nbstripout
pip install nbstripout

# Enable git filter
nbstripout --install

# Strip existing outputs
git ls-files "*.ipynb" -z | xargs -0 nbstripout

Alternatively, use included .gitattributes for automatic stripping.

📞 Author & Contact

Angel Morenu
University of Florida – M.S. in Applied Data Science
Email: angel.morenu@ufl.edu
GitHub: https://github.com/angelmorenu/multi-modal-cvd-predictor

This repository accompanies Deliverables 1–4 of EEE 6778 – Applied Machine Learning II (Fall 2025) instructed by Dr. Ramirez-Salgado.

📄 License

This project is shared for academic and educational purposes. All code, data preprocessing scripts, and documentation are provided as-is.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Kaggle for hosting the CVD, hospital admissions, and PTB-XL ECG datasets
PyTorch, scikit-learn, Streamlit communities for excellent documentation
IEEE, SHAP, Captum for interpretability frameworks
University of Florida for course guidance and feedback

Last Updated: December 4, 2025
Version: 1.0 (Final)

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🩺 Multi-Modal Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction System

🧠 Project Overview

🚨 Current Critical Blocker (Must Fix First)

Immediate Recovery Plan

✅ Targeted Cleanup Policy (Keep What Matters)

📌 Remaining Tasks / TODOs (Medical-Readiness Track)

📚 Deliverables Summary

📖 Final Report (Deliverable 4) Contents

Main Sections

Figures Included

Appendix

🧩 Added Files

📦 GitHub Repository

📊 Datasets Used

External Validation Plan

🏗️ System Architecture

⚙️ Installation and Environment Setup

Pip / Docker quick start

macOS (Intel or Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3)

Linux/Windows with NVIDIA GPU (CUDA 11.8)

Default Cross-Platform (CPU/MPS-friendly)

🚀 Quick Start

1. Generate Example ECG and Verify Shapes

2. Launch Interactive Streamlit UI

3. Reproduce Full Evaluation Pipeline

4. Generate LaTeX Report (Deliverable 4)

📁 Complete Repository Structure

📊 Held-Out Test Performance

Results Summary

🔄 Complete Reproducibility Instructions

Step 1: Set Up Environment

Step 2: Verify Installation

Step 3: Generate Predictions

Step 4: Create Visualizations

Step 5: Run Interpretability Scripts (Optional)

Step 6: Launch Interactive UI

Step 7: Compile LaTeX Report

🧠 Model Architecture Details

Tabular Encoder (MLPTabular)

ECG Encoder (ECG1DCNN)

Fusion Module

Training Configuration

🔍 Interpretability Methods

SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations)

ECG Saliency Maps

UI Explanations

🎯 Clinical UI Design

Input Panel

Prediction Display

Explainability Panel (Collapsible)

Audit Logging

⚠️ Known Issues & Troubleshooting

Scikit-learn Version Mismatch

ECG Upload Shape Errors

Calibration Instability

SHAP Installation Issues

📚 Interpretability (SHAP & ECG Saliency)

SHAP Feature Importance

ECG Saliency Visualization

Integration with UI

🤖 Responsible AI and Fairness

Fairness Evaluation

Privacy and Data Protection

Transparency and Explainability

Limitations and Disclaimers

🚀 Future Work and Improvements

Larger Datasets

Advanced Architectures

Hyperparameter Optimization

Regulatory Approval

Clinical Deployment

📜 Git Commit Conventions

📋 Commit Hygiene (Recommended)

📞 Author & Contact

📄 License

🙏 Acknowledgments

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