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Improving Clinical Applicability of Heart Failure Readmission Prediction via Automated Feature Engineering

2026-02-28 health informatics Title + abstract only
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Heart failure (HF) readmission prediction models often rely on manually curated, cross-sectional features and show limited discrimination and calibration. We evaluated whether automated feature engineering via Deep Feature Synthesis (DFS) improves the clinical applicability of HF readmission prediction from lon-gitudinal electronic health record data. Using 355,217 HF hospitalizations from a large U.S. safety-net health system (2010-2025), we compared a clinician-curated baseline feature set to ...

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