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ArticleAMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science2025

Predicting survival time for critically ill patients with heart failure using conformalized survival analysis.

Xiaomeng Wang, Zhimei Ren, Jiancheng Ye

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Article in AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Digital health technology burden and frustration among patients with multimorbidity.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026
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  2. Foundation models for cardiovascular diseases and medicine.European heart journal. Digital health · 2026
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Xiaomeng WangDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA.
Zhimei RenDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jiancheng YeWeill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) is a significant public health challenge, especially among critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs). Predicting survival outcomes for these patients with calibrated uncertainty is both challenging and essential for guiding subsequent treatments. This study introduces conformalized survival analysis (CSA) as a novel method for predicting survival times in critically ill HF patients. CSA enhances each predicted survival time with a statistically rigorous lower bound, providing valuable uncertainty quantification. Using the MIMIC-IV dataset, we demonstrate that CSA effectively delivers calibrated uncertainty quantification for survival predictions, in contrast to parametric models like the Cox or Accelerated Failure Time models. Through the application of CSA to a large, real-world dataset, this study underscores its potential to improve decision-making in critical care, offering a more precise and reliable tool for prognosis in a setting where accurate predictions and calibrated uncertainty can profoundly impact patient outcomes.

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Conformalized Survival AnalysisHeart FailureIntensive Care UnitPredictive Modeling, MIMIC-IVPrognostication

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PMID40502254
PMCPMC12150701

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