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Curvature Templates in Clinical Information Geometry: Fisher Manifolds, Relational Embeddings, and Worked Examples
Dragoş Petru Teodor Iancu1,2,3, Călin Gheorghe Buzea4,5, Florin Nedeff6
1Department of Oral Pathology, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iaşi, Romania.
Abstract:
Clinical prediction models commonly represent patients as points in high-dimensional feature spaces, but they rarely examine the information geometry generated by the statistical organization of clinical states. This study develops a theoretical and computational framework in which clinical states are represented as coarse-grained relational ensembles and analyzed through Fisher information geometry. We use two established statistical manifolds as controlled curvature templates: the Gaussian location-scale family, which has negative Fisher scalar curvature and represents fluctuation-dominated organization, and the categorical/simplex family, which has positive Fisher scalar curvature and represents normalized finite-capacity organization. The main contribution is the clinical-relational operationalization of these templates, together with worked examples showing how candidate clinical observables may be mapped to fluctuation-dominated, compositional, and graph-based settings. We further distinguish exact Fisher-geometric results from covariance-based diagnostic proxies used in finite simulations, and we introduce a reproducible protocol including metric-conditioning checks, sensitivity analysis, and a Riemannian-Laplace approximation for higher-dimensional tractability. The framework is not presented as a validated diagnostic or prognostic model. Rather, it provides a hypothesis-generating geometric layer for studying instability, constraint, and state-space organization in complex clinical systems.
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