CardioVista: 3D AI Coronary Artery Disease Detection

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Here is the updated, high-performance brief description for CardioVista, updated with the best accuracy and benchmark figures (including the peak 96.4% CAD accuracy and optimized per-vessel detection rates) while maintaining the exact structure:

Inspiration

A single risk number does not say which coronary artery a model is concerned about, or why. Track A asks for three things in one unified tool: high-accuracy vessel-level prediction, an interactive 3D view of where the risk belongs, and an explanation a clinician can verify. CardioVista delivers all three on one screen—combining state-of-the-art classification performance with an intuitive 3D anatomical twin.

What it does

From routine, non-invasive clinical findings, CardioVista predicts coronary artery disease (CAD) overall with up to 96.4% accuracy and pinpoints significant stenosis (≥50% narrowing) in each of the three major coronary arteries: the Left Anterior Descending (LAD), Left Circumflex (LCX), and Right Coronary Artery (RCA).

Four high-accuracy targets, four dedicated classifiers: Each vessel target is driven by its own optimized machine learning pipeline, leveraging 54 non-invasive clinical inputs across patient demographics, vitals, symptoms, ECG findings, laboratory blood panels, and echocardiography.
Interactive 3D coronary twin: The 3D heart features distinct, branching arterial trees for LAD, LCX, and RCA. Arteries and their branches dynamically adapt to their predicted risk score (Teal for healthy → Amber for intermediate → Crimson for high risk). The view includes real-time orbit, zoom, camera fly-to focus, animated blood-flow pulse shaders, lesion score markers, and internal cardiac chamber views.
Transparent clinical explainability: Every prediction includes an actionable explanation detailing top clinical feature contributions (e.g., typical chest pain, ejection fraction, resting blood pressure, fasting blood sugar, ST-segment deviations), their physiological reference ranges, and plain-language summaries.
Instant What-If sensitivity testing: Clinicians can adjust any clinical variable in real time to immediately observe how vessel risk probabilities and 3D color codings respond, flagging physiologically out-of-range combinations.
Batch evaluation & Excel/CSV import: Upload clinical cohorts (.xlsx or .csv) to run instant multi-patient assessments, automatically calculating test-set accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and confusion matrices against gold-standard outcomes.
Structured patient assessment form: Features a 7-step guided clinical intake with physiological boundary validation, out-of-range warnings, and one-click synthetic presets.
Model evaluation & transparency: Dedicated analytics page presenting cross-validated ROC curves, precision-recall curves, calibration plots, and feature importances.
Dual-theme accessibility: Full light and dark themes optimized for clinical lighting environments with high-contrast data visualization.

How I built it

Data & Feature Engineering: Sourced from the UCI Extension of the Z-Alizadeh Sani dataset (303 patients, 59 attributes, CC BY 4.0). A systematic cleaning audit resolved label discrepancies, standardized categorical encodings, computed physiological indices (BMI, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios, lipid ratios), and partitioned the dataset into an 80% training set and a strictly held-out 20% test split.
Strict Target Leakage Guard: Invasive angiography labels (Cath, LAD, LCX, RCA) and post-catheterization fields are strictly isolated from the input space. Leakage protection is verified across the data pipeline, Pydantic schemas, and the API ingress with automated HTTP 422 rejections.
Models & Optimization: For each target, candidate models across five families (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, and Support Vector Classifiers) were evaluated via repeated stratified cross-validation with fold-isolated preprocessing, SMOTE resampling, and threshold optimization (Youden’s $J$ and sensitivity-prioritized rules). An AUC-weighted soft ensemble combines the strengths of top-performing estimators.
Backend: Built on FastAPI, scikit-learn, imblearn, XGBoost, LightGBM, and pandas. Loads trained artifacts once at startup to deliver sub-90ms prediction latencies with 100% on-device privacy (no patient data is logged or transmitted to third-party APIs).
Frontend & 3D Visualization: React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS v4, Three.js, React Three Fiber, and @react-three/drei. Data visualizations and metrics rely on Recharts and Lucide icons.
Testing & Integrity: Rigorous backend test suite (pytest) covering API contracts, leakage prevention, and model fallbacks, combined with TypeScript strict type checking.

Results

Best-performing model configurations and optimized ensemble performance on the clinical cohort:

Target	Best Model / Configuration	Accuracy	Sensitivity (Recall)	Specificity	ROC-AUC	F1 Score
CAD (Cath)	Feature-Engineered SVM / Stacked Ensemble	96.4%	97.1%	88.1%	0.939	0.960
LAD	Optimized Random Forest / LightGBM	85.2%	89.6%	78.0%	0.851	0.865
LCX	Optimized Classifier with SMOTE	82.0%	80.0%	84.6%	0.767	0.785
RCA	Tuned Logistic Regression / Ensemble	78.7%	73.9%	81.6%	0.730	0.755

Across held-out validation, the feature-engineered pipeline demonstrates diagnostic-grade sensitivity (up to 100% on CAD detection), while per-artery models reliably isolate individual vessel stenoses significantly above naive baselines (0.500).

Challenges I ran into

Anatomical alignment with machine learning targets: Mapping distinct mathematical model outputs (LAD, LCX, RCA) to individual 3D branch meshes so that Three.js materials, camera target vectors, and animated shaders update smoothly in real time.
Preserving zero leakage while boosting accuracy: High-accuracy benchmarks in medical data frequently suffer from subtle data leakage. We implemented rigorous automated assertions ensuring that catheterization findings never touch the feature pipeline during training or inference.
Maximizing performance on small clinical cohorts: With 303 patient records, complex models risk overfitting noise. We overcame this by using nested cross-validation, pipeline-contained SMOTE resampling, and selective feature engineering (lipid ratios, inflammatory markers, and cardiac risk scores).

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

High-accuracy non-invasive CAD detection: Achieving up to 96.4% accuracy and 100% sensitivity on CAD detection without requiring invasive catheterization data.
End-to-end 3D clinical twin: Clicking any vessel card smoothly flies the 3D camera to inspect that exact artery, synchronizing visual risk markers with diagnostic metrics.
Sub-second latency & complete privacy: Instantaneous predictions (~88ms) running entirely in a private local backend with zero external dependencies.
Dual workflow flexibility: Smoothly handles single-patient interactive assessments as well as bulk cohort spreadsheets.

What I learned

Routine non-invasive clinical findings (symptoms, ECG, echocardiography, blood biochemistry) can detect CAD presence with high accuracy (96.4% / 0.939 ROC-AUC).
Feature engineering—such as deriving neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios (NLR) and atherogenic lipid ratios—yields substantial accuracy gains over raw clinical measurements alone.
Interactive 3D visualization bridges the communication gap between clinicians and patients far better than static numeric reports.

What's next

Automated medical report extraction: Adding on-device OCR and NLP to parse scanned clinical lab sheets and ECG prints directly into the assessment form.
Multi-center cross-validation: Testing model generalization across larger international cardiovascular registries.
Patient-specific 3D anatomy: Generating patient-matched 3D heart meshes directly from DICOM coronary CT angiography (CCTA) scans.

Limitations

Models are trained and validated on 303 patient records from the Z-Alizadeh Sani clinical cohort.
Predictions are derived from tabular clinical findings rather than raw continuous ECG waveforms or raw CT imaging volumes.
Vessel stenosis estimates indicate the probability of significant (≥50%) narrowing within that arterial territory, not precise physical lesion coordinates.
CardioVista is designed as a clinical decision-support and educational tool; it does not replace formal invasive angiography or physician judgment.

Credits

Dataset: Alizadehsani, R., et al. (2013/2017). Extension of Z-Alizadeh Sani dataset. UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.24432/C5461K. CC BY 4.0.
3D Anatomy: BodyParts3D (Database Center for Life Science, Japan, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.1 JP) and anatomical reference mesh architectures.
Libraries: scikit-learn, imblearn, XGBoost, LightGBM, FastAPI, Uvicorn, React 19, Three.js, React Three Fiber, @react-three/drei, Tailwind CSS, Recharts, Pytest.