SMART: Development and Application of a Multimodal Multi-organ Trauma Screening Model for Abdominal Injuries in Emergency Settings.

Abstract

Rationale and objectives: Effective trauma care in emergency departments necessitates rapid diagnosis by interdisciplinary teams using various medical data. This study constructed a multimodal diagnostic model for abdominal trauma using deep learning on non-contrast computed tomography (CT) and unstructured text data, enhancing the speed and accuracy of solid organ assessments.

Materials and methods: Data were collected from patients undergoing abdominal CT scans. The SMART model (Screening for Multi-organ Assessment in Rapid Trauma) classifies trauma using text data (SMART_GPT), non-contrast CT scans (SMART_Image), or both. SMART_GPT uses the GPT-4 embedding API for text feature extraction, whereas SMART_Image incorporates nnU-Net and DenseNet121 for segmentation and classification. A composite model was developed by integrating multimodal data via logistic regression of SMART_GPT, SMART_Image, and patient demographics (age and gender).

Results: This study included 2638 patients (459 positive, 2179 negative abdominal trauma cases). A trauma-based dataset included 1006 patients with 1632 real continuous data points for testing. SMART_GPT achieved a sensitivity of 81.3% and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.88 based on unstructured text data. SMART_Image exhibited a sensitivity of 87.5% and an AUC of 0.81 on non-contrast CT data, with the average sensitivity exceeding 90% at the organ level. The integrated SMART model achieved a sensitivity of 93.8% and an AUC of 0.88. In emergency department simulations, SMART reduced waiting times by over 64.24%.

Conclusion: SMART provides rapid, objective trauma diagnostics, improving emergency care efficiency, reducing patient wait times, and enabling multimodal screening in diverse emergency contexts.