Stable Prediction of Adverse Events in Medical Time-Series Data

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Main Authors: Keoliya, Mayank, Choi, Seewon, Alur, Rajeev, Naik, Mayur, Wong, Eric
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author Keoliya, Mayank
Choi, Seewon
Alur, Rajeev
Naik, Mayur
Wong, Eric
author_facet Keoliya, Mayank
Choi, Seewon
Alur, Rajeev
Naik, Mayur
Wong, Eric
contents Early event prediction (EEP) systems continuously estimate a patient's imminent risk to support clinical decision-making. For bedside trust, risk trajectories must be accurate and temporally stable, shifting only with new, relevant evidence. However, current benchmarks (a) ignore stability of risk scores and (b) evaluate mainly on tabular inputs, leaving trajectory behavior untested. To address this gap, we introduce CAREBench, an EEP benchmark that evaluates deployability using multi-modal inputs-tabular EHR, ECG waveforms, and clinical text-and assesses temporal stability alongside predictive accuracy. We propose a stability metric that quantifies short-term variability in per-patient risk and penalizes abrupt oscillations based on local-Lipschitz constants. CAREBench spans six prediction tasks such as sepsis onset and compares classical learners, deep sequence models, and zero-shot LLMs. Across tasks, existing methods, especially LLMs, struggle to jointly optimize accuracy and stability, with notably poor recall at high-precision operating points. These results highlight the need for models that produce evidence-aligned, stable trajectories to earn clinician trust in continuous monitoring settings. (Code: https://github.com/SeewonChoi/CAREBench.)
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spellingShingle Stable Prediction of Adverse Events in Medical Time-Series Data
Keoliya, Mayank
Choi, Seewon
Alur, Rajeev
Naik, Mayur
Wong, Eric
Machine Learning
Early event prediction (EEP) systems continuously estimate a patient's imminent risk to support clinical decision-making. For bedside trust, risk trajectories must be accurate and temporally stable, shifting only with new, relevant evidence. However, current benchmarks (a) ignore stability of risk scores and (b) evaluate mainly on tabular inputs, leaving trajectory behavior untested. To address this gap, we introduce CAREBench, an EEP benchmark that evaluates deployability using multi-modal inputs-tabular EHR, ECG waveforms, and clinical text-and assesses temporal stability alongside predictive accuracy. We propose a stability metric that quantifies short-term variability in per-patient risk and penalizes abrupt oscillations based on local-Lipschitz constants. CAREBench spans six prediction tasks such as sepsis onset and compares classical learners, deep sequence models, and zero-shot LLMs. Across tasks, existing methods, especially LLMs, struggle to jointly optimize accuracy and stability, with notably poor recall at high-precision operating points. These results highlight the need for models that produce evidence-aligned, stable trajectories to earn clinician trust in continuous monitoring settings. (Code: https://github.com/SeewonChoi/CAREBench.)
title Stable Prediction of Adverse Events in Medical Time-Series Data
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14286