Fig 1. The Modular Clinical Decision Support Network (MoDN).

The state is a representation of the patient, which is sequentially modified by a series of inputs. Here, we show in blue age and fever values as modifying inputs. Each input has a dedicated encoder which updates the state. At any point in this process, the clinician can either apply new encoders (to update the state) or decode information from the state (to make predictions, in green).