arXiv AI
Sep 24

A Leakage-Aware Multimodal Evaluation Framework for Early Intraoperative Acute Kidney Injury Prediction

The study introduces SynerT, a waveform-only hybrid temporal model that uses a causal dilated TCN and dilated recurrent layers to predict early intraoperative acute kidney injury (AKI). Two extensions, SynerT-MM and SynerT-Stack, incorporate hemodynamic summaries, preoperative covariates, and a leakage-safe stacked ensemble to improve discrimination and calibration. Evaluated on the VitalDB database with a strict 60‑minute prediction window, SynerT-Stack achieved the best performance across AUROC, AUPRC, and F1‑max, and demonstrated the greatest net clinical benefit after recalibration.

By Quang Minh Nguyen, Duc Minh Le, Ho Nhat Minh Nguyen, Thuy Quynh Nguyen, Trong Nghia Nguyen
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Rolling Day-Wise Mortality Prediction in Critically Ill Patients With AKI on CRRT Utilizing Machine Pressure Waveforms

This study develops a rolling day‑wise mortality prediction model for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury on continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) by incorporating minute‑level machine pressure waveforms alongside electronic health record (EHR) data. After cleaning the raw machine data—aligning it with therapy intervals, removing priming and downtime minutes, and denoising artifacts—the authors trained a transformer‑based stacked ensemble that fuses a sequence transformer with classical models using circuit‑instability features and clinical variables. In a multi‑center benchmark of 976 patients, the combined model achieved a one‑day mortality AUROC of 0.766, outperforming machine‑only (0.625) and EHR‑only (0.717) models, and SHAP analysis highlighted key pressure‑related features such as filter pressure, transmembrane pressure, and access‑to‑return difference. whyItMatters":"By integrating previously discarded CRRT machine data, the study provides a continuous, real‑time risk signal that could enable earlier detection of patient deterioration and improve mortality prediction in a high‑risk population."

By Shehan Irteza Pranto, Joanna Yang, Joshua Lambert, Stuart L. Goldstein, Lili Chan, Girish N. Nadkarni, Tiago K. Colicchio, Javier A. Neyra, Jin Chen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 13

Intervention-Aware Clinical World Model for Post-Op Outcome Forecasting in Cardiology

Many clinical prediction models treat post-intervention outcomes as a one-step mapping from baseline measurements to a future endpoint. However, recovery after a procedure often unfolds as an irregular trajectory: clinical observations, medication changes, repeat interventions, and physiological measurements are recorded asynchronously and can change risk assessment over time.

arXiv AI
Aug 24

Curriculum-Aware Interpolate-then-Refine: Learned Physiological Time-Series Imputation under Realistic Missingness

The paper introduces Curriculum‑Aware Interpolate‑then‑Refine (CAIR), a two‑stage framework for imputing physiological time‑series data. CAIR first learns a coarse base curve with a bidirectional‑GRU interpolator and then refines it through three Transformer passes, trained under a random‑gap curriculum that mimics realistic missingness. Evaluations on continuous glucose monitoring and arterial pressure datasets show CAIR outperforms all baselines across MCAR, MAR, and NMAR mechanisms, especially for long gaps and value‑dependent dropout, while also preserving clinically relevant burden metrics.

By Yu-Chao Huang, Haochen Zhang, Nicholas Konz, Tianlong Chen