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Score performance was assessed by area under the curve (AUC) analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 500 patients (mean age: 60 \u00b1 10; 53.8% male subjects) referred for CCTA, 416 patients have met inclusion criteria, 46 patients with early (&amp;lt;90 days) cardiac evaluation (due to the inability to clarify the reason for the assessment, deterioration of the symptoms vs. the CCTA result), and 38 patients because of missed follow-up were not enrolled in the final analysis. Forty-six patients (11.0%) developed MACE within 20.5 \u00b1 7.9 months of follow-up. Compared to conventional scores, ML models showed better performance, except only one model which is eXtreme Gradient Boosting had lower performance than conventional scoring systems (AUC:0.824, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.701\u20130.947). Between ML models, random forest, ensemble with generalized linear, and ensemble with naive Bayes were shown to have higher prognostic performance (AUC: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.85\u20130.99, AUC: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.81\u20130.98, and AUC: 0.89, 95% CI: 0.82\u20130.97), respectively. Coronary artery calcium score (CACS) had the highest correlation with MACE.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Compared to the conventional scoring system, ML models using CCTA scans show improved prognostic prediction for MACE. 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