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Bin Wang¹, Kaipan Qu²

¹Navy 971st Hospital of PLA, Qingdao, China.

Frontiers in Medicine

|April 29, 2026

Summary

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Keywords:

SHAP image machine learning post-traumatic nonunion prediction model

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Area of Science:

Orthopedic surgery
Biomedical engineering
Radiology

Background:

Delayed union or nonunion of long bone fractures can lead to prolonged morbidity and healthcare costs.
Accurate early risk stratification is crucial for optimizing treatment strategies and patient management.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a machine learning model for predicting post-traumatic nonunion in long bone fractures.
To identify key clinical and radiological predictors of fracture healing.
To support early risk stratification and clinical decision-making in fracture management.

Main Methods:

Retrospective analysis of 343 patients with unilateral closed long bone fractures treated with internal fixation.
Collection of clinico-radiological variables including Injury Severity Index, fracture gap width, cystic changes, callus growth rate, and RUST score.
Application of LASSO regression for predictor selection, followed by multivariable logistic regression and machine learning algorithms (random forest, gradient boosting machine) with 10-fold cross-validation.

Main Results:

Five independent predictors were identified: Injury Severity Index, maximum fracture gap width, and cystic change volume (risk factors); callus growth rate and RUST score (protective factors).
The gradient boosting machine model demonstrated high predictive accuracy with an AUC of 0.866 (training) and 0.858 (validation).
The model showed satisfactory calibration and superior net benefit in decision curve analysis, with SHAP analysis enhancing interpretability.

Conclusions:

A validated machine learning model integrating clinical and imaging data can effectively predict post-traumatic nonunion.
The model exhibits strong discriminative ability and can assist in personalized treatment planning for fracture patients.
This tool has the potential to improve early risk stratification and guide clinical decision-making in orthopedic trauma care.