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Differentiation of Fungal, Viral, and Bacterial Sepsis using Multimodal Deep Learning

Boussina, A.; Ramesh, K.; Arora, H.; Ratadiya, P.; Nemati, S.

2023-04-11 health informatics
10.1101/2023.04.10.23288378 medRxiv
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Sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and is caused by bacterial infection in a majority of cases. However, fungal sepsis often carries a higher mortality rate both due to its prevalence in immunocompromised patients as well as delayed recognition. Using chest x-rays, associated radiology reports, and structured patient data from the MIMIC-IV clinical dataset, the authors present a machine learning methodology to differentiate between bacterial, fungal, and viral sepsis. Model performance shows AUCs of 0.81, 0.83, 0.79 for detecting bacterial, fungal, and viral sepsis respectively, with best performance achieved using embeddings from image reports and structured clinical data. By improving early detection of an often missed causative septic agent, predictive models could facilitate earlier treatment of non-bacterial sepsis with resultant associated mortality reduction.

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