crossrefMedicina2026-07-24
Explainable Machine Learning for Predicting Complicated Appendicitis and Expected Hospital Length of Stay in Children: An Exploratory Single-Center Study
Ahmad Turki, Enas Raml, Jury Emad Aboulola
Background and Objectives: Pediatric appendicitis remains a common surgical emergency, but early risk stratification of complicated appendicitis and expected hospital length of stay (LOS) remains challenging. This study developed and internally evaluated an explainable machine le…