arxivcs.LG2026-07-15
TEDDY: A Pediatric Foundation Model for Risk Forewarning from ICD-Coded Diagnostic Histories
Matthew Brady Neeley, Jorge Botas, Johnathan Jia, Lin Yao, Daniel Palacios, Benjamin Choi, et al.
Pediatric electronic health records capture developmentally structured clinical trajectories, yet their potential for generative healthcare foundation models remains largely unexplored. Here we present TEDDY (Temporal Event Decoder for Disease in Youth), a 1.84-million-parameter…