BMC medical informatics and decision making

01 17 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03915-1

Predicting Length of Hospital stay for patients undergoing discectomy surgery using clinical and surgical parameters via machine learning

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Faezeh Mehdipour, Behzad Imani, Alireza Jafarkhani et al.

02 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03917-z

Construction and validation of an intelligent pertussis identification model based on routine blood parameters and machine learning algorithms

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Jing Yang, Siying Sun, Wenjing Deng et al.

Background: Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease whose early symptoms often resemble those of common respiratory tract infections, posing challenges for timely diagnosis. This study aimed to develop machine learning model...

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03 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03909-z

CNN-based multi-head attention with explainability via LIME for myocardial diagnosis in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

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Nilofar Shekarzaban, Behnam Barzegar

04 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03889-0

XGBoost–SHAP-based interpretable predictive website for postoperative in-hospital mortality in patients with acute aortic dissection

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Yu-Chuan Jin, Xin Zhang, Min Fang et al.

05 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03873-8

Integrating dynamic lactate trends and clinical variables using an LSTM deep learning model to predict acute kidney injury in ICU patients

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Jian Xu, Yeping Bian, Yalin Hong et al.

06 15 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03916-0

Diagnostic classification of hepatocellular carcinoma in the Vietnamese population using clinical and biochemical data: explainable machine learning approaches

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Thi Thuy Pham, Thi Hong Tham Pham, Huu Phong Nguyen et al.

07 15 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03902-6

Analyzing determinants of biological age through systematic review of prediction models

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Adrijana Svenšek, Lucija Gosak, Leon Bedrač et al.

08 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03903-5

Multimodal temporal deep learning for postoperative complication risk stratification in colorectal surgery: a transformer-based analysis of inflammatory–metabolic dynamics

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Liying Xia, Kaili Xu, Junying Xu et al.

09 13 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03906-2

What influences patients’ perspectives on the fairness of AI decision-making tools in healthcare? A cross sectional survey in the UK

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Elizabeth Remfry, Giulia Tomba, Michael R. Barnes et al.

Background: Whilst the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is growing, with promises that AI will reduce costs and improve efficiency, there is also concern that AI systems can perpetuate health inequalities. Prior work has...

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10 13 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12911-026-03857-8

Phenotype harmonisation for multi-study genomics collaborations: lessons learned from African research initiatives

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Katherine Johnston, Lyndon Zass, Gaston Kuzamunu et al.

The importance of phenotype harmonisation has been highlighted by the need for an increase in the number of large-scale collaborations aiming to capitalise and make the best use of existing data resources. Phenotype harmonisation, a sub-...

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