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Representing Injuries in Trauma Patients: Development and Evaluation of Embeddings for Injuries

2026-01-06 emergency medicine Title + abstract only
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWO_ST_ABSBackgroundC_ST_ABSTrauma patients present with heterogeneous injury patterns that are challenging to represent in statistical models. Traditional approaches either use high-dimensional one-hot encoding, resulting in sparse features, or aggregate injuries into summary scores that lose patient-specific detail. This study developed data-driven ICD-10 embeddings for trauma injuries and evaluated their ability to preserve injury information. MethodsUsing the National ...

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