It is a beautiful topic for further future research. There are some good studies related to your query, e.g., https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2019.00172/full
https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(19)31386-3/fulltext which may interest you.
to me it seems like you have a classification problem here. Machine Learning is very powerful for classification problems and i think you can use some classic approaches like the Support Vector Machine or kNN method. If you need to understand the basic principles of ML you can have a look at your University course "AI in Automotive Technology" and check out the first lecture. Then you will get an idea of where and how you can use ML