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An Interpretable Gradient Boosting Machine Approach for Forecasting In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Sepsis-Induced Myocardial Injury: A Multicenter Development, Validation, and Online Clinical Application

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  • Lina Chen

  • Qianru Yuan

  • Yitong Ma

  • July 1, 2026

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Clinical Scorecard: An Interpretable Gradient Boosting Machine Approach for Forecasting In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Sepsis-Induced Myocardial Injury: A Multicenter Development, Validation, and Online Clinical Application

At a Glance

CategoryDetail
ConditionSepsis-Induced Myocardial Injury (SIMI)
Key MechanismsImpaired cardiac contractility, elevated cardiac biomarkers, systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction.
Target PopulationPatients diagnosed with septic myocardial injury.
Care SettingMulticenter critical care settings.

Key Highlights

  • The GBM model achieved an internal validation AUC of 0.751.
  • External validation yielded AUCs of 0.924 and 0.703 in different cohorts.
  • Key predictors included APS III Score, Hypertension, Albumin, Diabetes, SOFA Score, ALT, RBC, and Lactate.
  • A simplified model with five variables achieved an AUC of 0.789.
  • The model is deployed on a user-friendly platform for real-time risk assessment.

Guideline-Based Recommendations

Diagnosis

  • Diagnosis of SIMI requires meeting Sepsis-3.0 criteria and elevated cTnT levels.

Management

  • Utilize the developed GBM model for risk stratification in SIMI patients.

Monitoring & Follow-up

  • Monitor key predictors such as SOFA score and cardiac biomarkers.

Risks

  • In-hospital mortality rates for SIMI patients can reach 35%.

Patient & Prescribing Data

Patients with septic myocardial injury from multiple databases.

The model aids in early risk assessment to potentially improve patient outcomes.

Clinical Best Practices

  • Incorporate machine learning models for enhanced risk stratification in critical care.
  • Utilize multi-center validation to ensure model generalizability.

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Interpretable gradient boosting machine model for predicting in-hospital mortality in sepsis-induced myocardial injury: a multicenter development, validation, and web-based clinical implementation

  • by Lina Chen, Qianru Yuan, Yitong Ma

  • July 1, 2026

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