doi: 10.18178/JAAI.2026.4.1.59-75
Performance Evaluation of SXI++ and Comparative Triage Machine Learning Models for Enhanced Medical Decision‐ Making
Mahesh Banavar
1,*
,
,
,
Srinivas Kilambi
2,*
- 1 Department of ECE, Clarkson University, Potsdam, USA.
- 2 Sriya.AI, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Manuscript received December 26, 2025
- accepted January 23, 2026
- published March 27, 2026
Abstract
Effective triage is vital to prioritize patient care and optimize resource utilization. This study compares traditional machine learning, represented by an XGBoost classifier, with SXI++, a proprietary deep neural network and ensemble learning framework, for predicting Emergency Severity Index (ESI) levels. An emergency department dataset of 560,486 records and 972 features was reduced to 180 through correlation filtering, Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regression, and principal component analysis. A 100,000-record sample was imputed, normalized, and split into training (70%), validation (10%), and test (20%) sets. On the large dataset test set (10,000 records), SXI++ achieved 99.8% accuracy, 99.8% precision, 99.8% sensitivity, 99.8% specificity, and an AUC of 0.999, outperforming XGBoost (82.9% accuracy, 85.5% precision, 73.7% sensitivity, 91.1% specificity, AUC 0.779) and SXI (90.76% accuracy, 80.97% precision, 90.7% sensitivity, 92.0% specificity, AUC 0.967). Validation on a smaller dataset of 1,267 adult ED cases confirmed adaptability, with SXI++ achieving 100% accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, and AUC. These findings highlight SXI++’s potential for accurate and scalable triage automation. However, near-perfect metrics warrant further validation on diverse, real-world datasets to assess generalizability, computational efficiency, and overfitting risk before clinical deployment.
Keywords
- triage prediction
- artificial intelligence
- SXI++
- machine learning
- deep neural networks
How to Cite
Mahesh Banavar, Reeshabh Kumar, Prashant Yadav, and Srinivas Kilambi, "Performance Evaluation of SXI++ and Comparative Triage Machine Learning Models for Enhanced Medical Decision‐ Making," Journal of Advances in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 59-75, 2026. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/JAAI.2026.4.1.59-75
Copyright & License
Copyright © 2026 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).