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Early identification of sepsis risk in PI patients remains a clinical challenge.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Adult PI patients were identified from the MIMIC-IV database (2008\u20132022) and randomly split into a training cohort (70%) and an internal validation cohort (30%). An independent external cohort was obtained from Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital. Predictors were extracted within the first 12 hours after admission. Feature selection was performed using LASSO regression and the Boruta algorithm combined with clinical knowledge. Seven machine learning models were evaluated. Model performance was assessed by area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), calibration, and decision curve analysis (DCA). SHAP was applied for interpretability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 579 PI patients were included, of whom 29.78% developed new-onset sepsis. Seven predictors were retained: pneumonia, red cell distribution width (RDW), heart failure, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), atrial fibrillation, serum chloride, and white blood cell count. Logistic regression demonstrated stable performance and was selected as the final model, achieving an AUC of 0.687 in internal validation and 0.715 in external validation. Calibration and DCA indicated good agreement and consistent clinical net benefit. 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