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Towards clinically interpretable machine learning in emergency surgery: feature importance and insights across clinical time points in abdominal pain cases

  • By

  • Jonas Henn

  • Simon Hatterscheidt

  • Svetozar Nesic

  • Sebastian Nowak

  • Wolfgang Block

  • Johannes Röttgen

  • Ingo Gräff

  • Jörg C. Kalff

  • Alois M. Sprinkart

  • Andreas Buness

  • Hanno Matthaei

  • June 16, 2026

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    AI and machine learning are increasingly utilized for clinical decision-making in surgery and emergency medicine.

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    Limited interpretability and transparency of predictions hinder the clinical adoption of machine learning models.

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    The study focuses on acute abdominal pain, a common and critical condition requiring timely surgical decisions.

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    A random-forest classifier was evaluated for urgent abdominal surgery, linking predictive accuracy to feature importance.

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    The study aims to enhance trust in machine learning by providing timepoint-specific explanations for clinical predictions.

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Towards clinically interpretable machine learning in emergency surgery: feature importance and insights across clinical time points in abdominal pain cases

  • by Jonas Henn, Simon Hatterscheidt, Svetozar Nesic, Sebastian Nowak, Wolfgang Block, Johannes Röttgen, Ingo Gräff, Jörg C. Kalff, Alois M. Sprinkart, Andreas Buness, Hanno Matthaei

  • June 16, 2026

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