MediFusion-Flex: An Adaptive Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Clinical Deterioration Prediction in Emergency Medicine
摘要
Rapid and accurate prediction of clinical deterioration in emergency medicine is challenging due to heterogeneous data modalities, severe class imbalance, and complex temporal dynamics. We present MediFusion-Flex, an adaptive multimodal deep learning framework that integrates time-series physiological signals, categorical demographic and clinical features, and unstructured clinical notes through specialized encoders and a dynamic multihead attention fusion mechanism. A novel composite loss function combining focal, dice, and contrastive losses addresses class imbalance and enhances the quality of representation. Evaluated on three large-scale datasets: CNUH, MIMIC-III and eICU, our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance with average AUROC scores of 0.730, 0.968 and 0.858 and AUPRC of 0.172, 0.522 and 0.571, respectively. The framework reduces late alarm rates by 34% while maintaining sensitivity above 72%, demonstrating superior early warning capabilities compared to traditional clinical scores and contemporary machine learning baselines.