Modeling trajectories of routine blood tests as dynamic biomarkers for outcome in spinal cord injury

Routinely collected blood tests can reflect underlying pathophysiological processes. We demonstrate that the dynamics of routinely collected blood tests hold prediction validity in acute Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Using MIMIC data (n¿=¿2615) for modeling and TRACK-SCI study data (n¿=¿137) for validat...

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Autores: Rizi, Marzieh Mussavi, Fernández Martínez, Daniel|||0000-0003-0012-2094, Kramer, John L.K., Saigal, Rajiv, DiGiorgio, Anthony M., Beattie, Michael S., Ferguson, Adam R., Kyritsis, Nikos, Torres Espín, Abel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/451782
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/451782
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01782-0
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Biomarkers
Health care
Medical research
Neurological disorders
Neurology
Predictive markers
Statistics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica aplicada a les ciències
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Sumario:Routinely collected blood tests can reflect underlying pathophysiological processes. We demonstrate that the dynamics of routinely collected blood tests hold prediction validity in acute Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Using MIMIC data (n¿=¿2615) for modeling and TRACK-SCI study data (n¿=¿137) for validation, we identified multiple trajectories for common blood markers. We developed machine learning models for the dynamic prediction of in-hospital mortality, SCI occurrence in spine trauma patients, and SCI severity (motor complete vs. incomplete). The in-hospital mortality model achieved an out-of-train ROC-AUC of 0.79 [0.77–0.81] day one post-injury, improving to 0.89 [0.88–0.89] by day 21. For detecting the presence of SCI after spine trauma, the highest ROC-AUC was 0.71 [0.69–0.72] achieved by day 21. By day seven, the ROC-AUC for SCI severity was 0.81 [0.77–0.85]. Our full models outperformed the severity score SAPS II following seven days of hospitalization.