Is This Baby's Heart Trace Healthy?
From the measurements of a cardiotocography trace, is the baby's health normal, suspect or pathological? Midwives read these traces around the clock, and a consistent score helps on a busy night.
The table
2,126 cardiotocography traces with baseline heart rate, accelerations, decelerations and variability measures, classified by obstetricians. It's in Welt's research catalogue as Cardiotocography (CTG) Fetal Health Dataset, 2,126 rows by 23 columns, licensed CC BY 4.0. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.84. At 2,126 rows and 22 features, TabICLv2 and Kumo Tabular Medium take the table as it is. The others can't take a table this size, so the walkthrough leaves them out.
Walkthrough
Load it from the catalogue
Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.
import pandas as pd from welt import Client with Client() as client: item = client.research_datasets(q="cardiotocography fetal health", limit=1)["items"][0] info = client.research_dataset(item["id"]) data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"]) target = info["targets"][0] target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)Pick the rows
Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end, and keep the rest for the models to learn from.
known = data.dropna(subset=[target]) new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1) table = known.drop(new_rows.index)Compare the models and predict
The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.
with Client() as client: evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7, models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium"]) model = evaluation.fit() print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]]) features = new_rows.drop(columns=target) print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features), "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))
What you get
Try it
Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "cardiotocography fetal health", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".
Open with
- Type
- Use case
- Area
- Healthcare
- Question
- Is This Baby's Heart Trace Healthy?
- Model
- TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium
- Data
- Cardiotocography (CTG) Fetal Health Dataset, 2,126 rows
- For
- Obstetric researchers and maternity clinicians
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0