Each year, there are approximately 2.8 million Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths and over 2 million individuals are diagnosed with mild TBI (mTBI) [1,2]. Post-traumatic headache (PTH) is the most common symptom following an mTBI [3]. Although some PTHs resolve in a matter of days, for many patients, PTH can persist for months or years [4]. Ideally, individuals with PTH would be identified and undergo treatment relatively early after PTH onset to reduce headache pain and subvert the persistence of PTH. Studies are being performed to investigate (1) mechanisms of PTH persistence; (2) factors that predict an increased risk for PTH persistence; and (3) methods of treating PTH and thus preventing its persistence. A federated learning framework is currently being explored on the FITBIR CARE dataset [5].
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