Clinical decision support using machine learning and natriuretic peptides for the diagnosis of acute heart failure.

Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: N.L.M. is supported by a Research Excellence Award (RE/24/130012) and a Chair Award (CH/F/21/90010) from the British Heart Foundation and reports research grants awarded to the University of Edinburgh from Abbott Diagnostics, Roche Diagnostics, and Siemens Healthineers outside the submitted work, and honoraria from Abbott Diagnostics, Siemens Healthineers, Roche Diagnostics, LumiraDx, and Psyros Diagnostics. K.K.L., D.D., and N.L.M. are employed by the University of Edinburgh, who have filed a patent on the CoDE-HF score (patent reference: PCT/GB2021/051470).