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A Data-Driven Approach to Quantifying Immune States in Sepsis
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FEDERATED LEARNING OF ROBUST INDIVIDUALIZED DECISION RULES WITH APPLICATION TO HETEROGENEOUS MULTIHOSPITAL SEPSIS

Xinlei Chen1, Victor B Talisa2, Xiaoqing Tan1

  • 1Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, University of Pittsburgh.

The Annals of Applied Statistics
|June 12, 2026
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This study introduces a new federated learning method to create individualized decision rules (IDRs) for sepsis management. The approach improves patient survival rates across diverse hospital settings, even with limited data sharing.

Area of Science:

  • Computational biology
  • Health informatics
  • Machine learning in healthcare

Background:

  • Sepsis affects millions annually, necessitating personalized treatment strategies.
  • Electronic health records from multiple hospitals offer rich data for sepsis management.
  • Existing methods struggle with data heterogeneity across hospitals, limiting generalizability of decision rules.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop individualized decision rules (IDRs) for sepsis management adaptable across diverse hospital settings.
  • To address data heterogeneity and data sharing restrictions in multi-hospital electronic health record data.
  • To enhance sepsis patient outcomes through robust, universally applicable decision-making tools.

Main Methods:

  • Introduced a novel conditional maximin objective function for robust IDR learning.
Keywords:
Causal inferenceconditional average treatment effectdata integrationdecentralized datadistributionally robust learning

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  • Developed a federated learning algorithm to handle distributional uncertainty from heterogeneous data.
  • Trained and validated IDRs using electronic health records from multiple UPMC hospitals, focusing on data privacy.

    • Main Results:

    • The proposed method significantly enhances survival rates, particularly for high-risk patients (10 percentage point increase).
    • Overall survival rates improved by 2-3 percentage points when applied to unseen hospital populations.
    • Demonstrated robustness of IDRs against hospital-level variations and distributional shifts.

    Conclusions:

    • Federated learning with a conditional maximin objective offers a robust framework for learning generalizable IDRs in sepsis.
    • This approach effectively addresses data heterogeneity and privacy concerns in multi-institutional healthcare data.
    • The developed IDRs have the potential to uniformly improve sepsis management and patient outcomes across healthcare systems.