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Predicting ICU in-hospital mortality from text-encoded structured EHR data using adaptive transformer layer fusion.

Han Wang, Guoguang Lao, Ruoyun He, Ting Liu, Hejiao Luo, Changqi Qin, Hongying Luo, Yingqi Liu, Junmin Huang, Zihan Wei and 10 more

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Han WangDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524000, China.
Guoguang LaoDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524000, China.
Ruoyun HeDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524000, China.
Ting LiuDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524000, China.
Hejiao LuoDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Changqi QinCICU, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
Hongying LuoGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Major Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
Yingqi LiuFirst Clinical College, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Junmin HuangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Major Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
Zihan WeiGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Major Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
Lu ChenGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Major Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
Yongzhi XuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Major Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
Ziqian BiBeijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
Junhao SongChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China.
Tianyang WangXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Xin Liang ChiaJTB Technology Corp., Tainan 741, Taiwan.
Xuanhe HouDepartment of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO), GROW - Research Institute for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Huafeng LiuGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Major Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
Junfeng HaoGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Major Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
Chunjie TianDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524000, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early identification of ICU patients at high mortality risk is essential for triage and timely intervention. We present adaptive layer fusion with intelligent attention (ALFIA), a modular architecture that jointly trains low-rank adaptation (LoRA) adapters and an adaptive layer-weighting mechanism to fuse multi-layer semantic features from a pretrained transformer backbone. ALFIA operates on

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