GSTCNet: Gated spatio-temporal correlation network for stroke mortality prediction.

Stroke continues to be the most common cause of death in China. It has great significance for mortality prediction for stroke patients, especially in terms of analyzing the complex interactions between non-negligible factors. In this paper, we present a gated spatio-temporal correlation network (GSTCNet) to predict the one-year post-stroke mortality. Based on the four categories of risk factors: vascular event, chronic disease, medical usage and surgery, we designed a gated correlation graph convolution kernel to capture spatial features and enhance the spatial correlation between feature categories. Bi-LSTM represents the temporal features of five timestamps. The novel gated correlation attention mechanism is then connected to the Bi-LSTM to realize the comprehensive mining of spatio-temporal correlations. Using the data on 2275 patients obtained from the neurology department of a local hospital, we constructed a series of sequential experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieves competitive results on each evaluation metric, reaching an AUC of 89.17%, a precision of 97.75%, a recall of 95.33% and an F1-score of 95.19%. The interpretability analysis of the feature categories and timestamps also verified the potential application value of the model for stroke.