Evaluation Strategy Affects Sepsis Prediction Performance
Researchers applied machine-learning sepsis prediction models pretrained on MIMIC‑IV to BerlinICU, a German multicenter ICU dataset of 40,132 admissions (2012–2021) with 4,134 sepsis cases (10.3%), and compared evaluation strategies. A temporal convolutional network achieved AUROC 0.67 (continuous, 6‑hour horizon) on BerlinICU versus 0.84 on MIMIC‑IV; fixed-horizon AUROC was 0.61. The authors find evaluation choice substantially alters reported performance and recommend continuous evaluation for real-time monitoring.
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