Enhanced Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Using Resnet50 and Adaboost Based on Retinal Imaging

This paper presents a comparative analysis between a traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) model and a hybrid ResNet50 + AdaBoost architecture for non-invasive cardiovascular risk prediction using retinal fundus images. The baseline model, trained on a small dataset for binary classification, achieves reasonable accuracy but lacks scalability and granularity. In contrast, the proposed model leverages deep residual learning for feature extraction and ensemble-based classification to predict five distinct cardiovascular risk levels. Evaluated on a class-balanced dataset of over 11,500 images, the hybrid model achieved a testing accuracy of 91.48% and a macro F1-score of approximately 0.93. The system also integrates data visualization and database logging to support clinical explainability. The findings demonstrate the proposed method’s superiority in risk stratification, robustness, and deployment readiness for real-world applications.