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Multimodal artificial intelligence-based decision support for stroke classification in medical emergency calls using call transcripts and patient health records: A retrospective diagnostic accuracy study.
| Τίτλος: | Multimodal artificial intelligence-based decision support for stroke classification in medical emergency calls using call transcripts and patient health records: A retrospective diagnostic accuracy study. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Iversen E; Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Emergency Medical Communication, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; Department of Prehospital Emergency Medicine, Institute of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Electronic address: emil.iversen@helse-bergen.no., Ihle-Hansen H; Department of Medicine, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen, Norway., Halle KK; Department of Medical Quality Registries, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway., Lundervold AS; Department of Strategy and Management, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway; Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway., Myrmel L; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway., Vestbø AS; Department of Research and Development, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway., Fromm A; Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway., Persia CD; Team Artificial Intelligence, Helse Vest ICT, Bergen, Norway., Autenried C; Team Artificial Intelligence, Helse Vest ICT, Bergen, Norway., Jamtli B; Department of Prehospital Emergency Medicine, Institute of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway; Division of Prehospital Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway., Brattebø G; Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Emergency Medical Communication, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. |
| Πηγή: | International journal of medical informatics [Int J Med Inform] 2026 Dec; Vol. 222, pp. 106713. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Sep 11. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd Country of Publication: Ireland NLM ID: 9711057 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1872-8243 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13865056 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Int J Med Inform Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland : Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd., c1997- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Stroke*/diagnosis , Stroke*/classification , Artificial Intelligence* , Decision Support Systems, Clinical* , Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems*, Humans ; Retrospective Studies ; Norway ; Electronic Health Records |
| Περίληψη: | Background: Identifying stroke during medical emergency calls is challenging because of unstructured information, communication barriers, and heterogeneous symptoms. Artificial intelligence (AI) may improve early stroke recognition;however,evidence from emergency call settings remains limited, and the value of combining call transcripts with structured clinical data is unclear.We developed and internally validated a multimodal AI-based decision-support system for stroke classification during medicalemergency calls and compared its performance with the Emergency Medical Communication Centre (EMCC) operator baseline. Methods: We performed a retrospective diagnostic accuracy study using data from Bergen EMCC from 2019 and 2022. Two datasets were used: (1) 473 EMCC audio files with paired manual transcripts for fine-tuning a Norwegian Whisper-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (2019), and (2) 2,627 labelled emergency calls for classification model developmentand evaluation (2022). Structured clinical data included hospital data, laboratory measurements, and medications. Performance was assessed using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), precision, recall, and F1-score. A streaming evaluation at 30, 60, and 90 ssimulated real-time use. Results: Fine-tuning improved ASR accuracy, reducing word error rate from 8.3% to 7.2%. The multimodal classification model achieved a stroke-class F1-score of 0.77, exceeding that of both the transcript-only model and the operator baseline (0.73). The macro-averaged F1-score was 0.87 and the AUC was 0.86. At an assumed 1.2% stroke prevalence, the model was estimated to generate approximately 26 false alerts per 1,000 calls, compared with 36 for the operator baseline. In the streaming evaluation, stroke F1-score increased from 0.68 at 30 s to 0.85 at 90 s, stabilising performance during the first minute. Conclusions: A multimodal AI-based decision-support system integrating emergency call transcripts with patient health recordsimproved stroke classification performance and may support EMCC operators during stroketriage. External validation in larger datasets is required before clinical implementation. (Copyright © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.) |
| Competing Interests: | Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Decision support system; Emergency medical communicationcentre; Medical emergency calls; Stroke; Triage |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260913 Date Completed: 20261006 Latest Revision: 20261006 |
| Update Code: | 20261007 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2026.106713 |
| PMID: | 42732713 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
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