Abstract:Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a kind of high burden disease caused by atherosclerosis and affecting the peripheral arteries of the whole body. The precise risk stratification of adverse events (amputation, reintervention, death, etc.) is crucial to clinical decision-making. Machine learning models provide a new means for personalized risk prediction of PAD patients, which can compensate for the shortcomings of traditional statistical methods in capturing complex nonlinear relationships. This article systematically reviews the application of machine learning methods including Logistic regression, XGBoost, random forest and neural networks in the risk prediction of adverse events of PAD, and the predictive performance and applicable scenarios of different models were compared. And further explored key challenges such as model interpretability, data privacy, and ethics, aiming to provide methodological references for accurate risk prediction of adverse events in PAD and indicate directions for future research.