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Facial photographs reveal mortality risk beyond triage

2026-02-15 emergency medicine Title + abstract only
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Rapid risk stratification is essential in the clinic, yet vital signs, laboratory tests, and triage scores may not fully capture risk at presentation. We investigated whether facial photographs taken after emergency admission provide an additional mortality signal. Using 27,660 smartphone facial photographs, we trained deep neural networks to identify mortality risk with a Cox proportional hazards framework. Face-derived risk scores strongly stratified short- and long-term mortality, outperformi...

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