Dynamic topic model improves mental health note analysis for children.
problem Lack of longitudinal topic models for psychiatric clinical notes.
method Developed a dynamic topic model with consistent topics and individualized temporal dependencies.
result Achieved a 38% increase in topic coherence.
Predictive analytics classify self-care problems in children with disability using ICF-CY.
problem Complex classification of functioning and disability in children with ICF-CY.
method Implemented Random Forest, SVM, Naive Bayes, Hoeffding tree, and Lazy locally weighted learning; used Boruta for dimensionality reduction.
result Random Forest achieved 84.75% classification accuracy.
A method models continuous-time glucose distributions in children with diabetes.
problem Capturing subtle temporal changes in glucose distributions.
method Probabilistic framework using Gaussian mixtures and neural ODEs.
result Detects treatment-related improvements in glucose dynamics.
Care2Vec uses deep learning to classify self-care problems in disabled children.
problem Accurate classification of self-care problems in physically disabled children.
method Care2Vec is a deep learning approach combining unsupervised and supervised learning using Autoencoders and Deep neural networks.
result Care2Vec outperforms traditional methods like Decision trees and Artificial neural networks in self-care classification.
CNN improves OSA diagnosis accuracy from PSG data.
problem Manual PSG analysis by specialists is tedious, time-consuming, and prone to errors.
method 1D CNN architecture with convolutional and FCN layers for OSA severity classification.
result Proposed CNN model achieves excellent classification results without manual preprocessing.
More than two thirds of mental health problems have their onset during childhood or adolescence. Identifying children at risk for mental illness later in life and predicting the type of illness is not easy. We set out to develop a platform to define subtypes of childhood social-emotional development using longitudinal,…
Study estimates personalized effects of maternal PM2.5 exposure on birth weight.
problem Identify critical windows and heterogeneity in maternal PM2.5 exposure effects on birth weight.
method Heterogeneous Distributed Lag Models and Bayesian Additive Regression Trees.
result Evidence of heterogeneity in PM2.5-birth weight relationship, with some dyads showing 3x larger decrease.
Paper proposes efficient method for automatic renal segmentation in DCE-MRI.
problem Automatic segmentation of renal parenchyma in DCE-MRI images.
method Cascaded application of two 3D CNNs for localization and segmentation.
result Achieved high segmentation accuracy with mean dice coefficients of 91.4 and 83.6 for normal and abnormal kidneys, respectively.
Research analyzes public opinions on Twitter about diabetes, diet, exercise, and obesity.
problem Understanding public health opinions on social media.
method Developed a multi-component semantic and linguistic framework to collect and analyze Twitter data.
result Strongest correlation found between exercise and obesity; other notable correlations between diabetes and obesity, diet and obesity.
Machine learning predicts obesity causes using genetic and imaging data.
problem Predicting causes of obesity in children and adults.
method Use ML techniques like decision trees, SVM, RF, GBM, LASSO, BN, and ANN on genetic and imaging data.
result ML models accurately predict obesity causes and chronic diseases.
Children learn concepts without explicit teaching by aligning internal systems.
problem Learning concepts from noisy perceptual experience without explicit teaching.
method Using information in the environment to build and align conceptual systems.
result The more concepts and systems there are, the easier learning becomes.
AI predicts dyslexia and dysgraphia in children.
problem Early detection and assessment of dyslexia and dysgraphia.
method Machine learning on datasets of children's handwriting and audio recordings.
result Preliminary model shows high performance in classifying dyslexic and dysgraphic children.
AR app enhances young children's understanding of Wudhu.
problem Teaching Wudhu to young children is challenging.
method Needs analysis, system design, implementation, testing (Black Box Testing).
result AR technology improves children's learning interest and understanding of Wudhu.
IML methods improve survival analysis transparency.
problem Limited interpretability in survival analysis models.
method Adapting IML techniques to survival analysis.
result Enhanced understanding of model predictions and risks.
Dataset for measuring reading levels in India's children.
problem Measuring reading levels in India's vast population.
method Developed ASER dataset with 5,301 subjects in Hindi, Marathi, and English.
result Achieved 86% accuracy in English language classification.
Predicts individual septic shock children's vasoactive response using RNN.
problem Personalized physiologic responses to vasoactive titrations in septic shock children.
method Retrospective analysis of EMR data using a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN).
result RNN model predicted physiologic responses more accurately than a linear model.
Algorithm recovers communities in preferential attachment graphs.
problem Recovering communities in graphs generated by preferential attachment models.
method Message passing algorithm based on belief propagation and vertex attachment order.
result Probability of correct classification depends on vertices' arrival times.
Survey of techniques for diagnosing pediatric sleep apnea from inexpensive data.
problem Diagnosing pediatric sleep apnea from limited and variable data.
method Exploratory data analysis using correlation networks, Mapper, SVD; supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
result Analysis of various learning techniques applied to pediatric sleep apnea data.
A new HP model balances interpretability and flexibility for EHR event sequences.
problem Balancing interpretability and flexibility in modeling diagnostic event sequences.
method Proposes a neural network-based HP with flexible impact kernel and transformer layers.
result Accurately recovers impact functions, competitive performance, and clinically meaningful interpretation.
New algorithm improves causal discovery in biomedical data.
problem Stability and accuracy issues in causal discovery algorithms.
method Exploits temporal structure and tiered background knowledge.
result Increases accuracy in finite samples for causal structure estimation.
Objective. The paper investigates the presence of autism using the functional brain connectivity measures derived from electro-encephalogram (EEG) of children during face perception tasks. Approach. Phase synchronized patterns from 128-channel EEG signals are obtained for typical children and children with autism spect…
This study improves child welfare risk models using clustering methods.
problem Improving predictive risk models for child maltreatment.
method Integration of PCA and K-Means clustering.
result No significant difference in model performance across clusters, but better for younger children.
WEST uses EHRs and expert cases to improve rare disease phenotyping.
problem Limited labeled data for rare diseases.
method Weakly supervised transformer model trained on probabilistic silver-standard labels.
result WEST outperforms existing methods in phenotype classification and subphenotyping.
New benchmark tests machine learning's ability to learn causal overhypotheses.
problem Machine learning's difficulty in understanding causal overhypotheses.
method Adapted blicket detector environment for machine learning agents to test causal overhypotheses.
result Many state-of-the-art methods struggle with causal overhypotheses in the new benchmark.
Preschool attendance correlates with lower developmental vulnerabilities in Queensland, Australia.
problem Understanding the relationship between preschool attendance and developmental vulnerabilities in different regions.
method Data Analysis and Machine Learning to identify clusters of socio-demographic variables.
result Identified three clusters with varying socio-demographic variables affecting the relationship between preschool attendance and developmental vulnerabilities.
Study uses ML to predict HL survival, outperforming CoxPH.
problem Improving survival prediction for HL patients.
method Compared multiple ML algorithms to CoxPH model.
result ML models outperform CoxPH in predicting HL survival.
Study detects SLI in children from spontaneous narrative transcripts.
problem Detecting Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in children.
method Three-stage pipeline: feature extraction, dimensionality reduction, and classification.
result 97.13% accuracy in identifying SLI from transcripts.
New method tells apart parents and children in causal graphs.
problem Inferring directed causal graphs from observational data.
method Information theory and algorithmic Markov condition.
result Climb algorithm efficiently discovers causal Markov blanket.
COPA models sparse, irregular tensors with constraints for interpretable temporal data.
problem Interpretable modeling of sparse, irregular tensors with constraints.
method COPA integrates optimization constraints like sparsity, non-negativity, and temporal smoothness into a hybrid optimization framework.
result COPA achieves significant speedups and interpretable results on large datasets.
Many practical modeling problems involve discrete data that are best represented as draws from multinomial or categorical distributions. For example, nucleotides in a DNA sequence, children's names in a given state and year, and text documents are all commonly modeled with multinomial distributions. In all of these cas…
Paper relaxes identifiability conditions for causal models with latent variables.
problem Challenges in identifying causal graphical models with latent variables.
method Proposes a double triangular graphical condition for nonparametric measurement models with binary latent variables.
result Guarantees identifiability of the entire causal graphical model under relaxed conditions.
Research uses Twitter to study transgender health issues.
problem Lack of information on transgender health needs.
method Collect and analyze tweets from transgender users.
result Identified 54 health topics, 7 categories, linguistic and topical differences between TM and TW.
Machine learning algorithms improve autism surveillance accuracy.
problem Efficiently predicting autism from evaluations to reduce human labor.
method 8 supervised learning algorithms tested on CDC ASD data.
result Random forest and NB-SVM perform similarly, with NB-SVM having more false negatives.
Repository tackles fake health news in cancer research.
problem Spread of fake health news over the internet.
method Developed comprehensive FakeHealth repository with rich features and detailed explanations.
result Repository helps in understanding and validating health fake news datasets.
System identifies health risks using semantic and machine learning.
problem Identifying risk factors associated with health conditions in subpopulations.
method Developed a combined semantic and machine learning system using a health risk ontology and knowledge graph.
result Dynamic discovery of risk factors and their subpopulations.
Study finds macroeconomic indicators predict health workforce and infrastructure measures.
problem Evaluating the predictive value of macroeconomic indicators for public health targets.
method Examined multiple forecasting approaches including neural networks, generalized additive models, random forests, and time series models with exogenous indicators.
result Macroeconomic indicators provide consistent and reproducible predictive signals for health workforce and infrastructure measures, but less so for other targets.
Study uses machine learning to predict future health from various health data types.
problem Predicting future health using diverse health data types.
method Applied machine learning (neural networks and XGBoost) to longitudinal data from 6830 individuals.
result Health-related measures were the strongest predictors of future health status, while genetic data performed poorly.
Study user engagement in mobile health apps for health workers in resource-poor settings.
problem Detect churn and tailor content for health workers in mobile health apps.
method Probabilistic and survival analysis of behavioral logs.
result Personalized measures of meaningful engagement can enhance health outcomes.
Neural network optimizes learning sequence for reading words.
problem Children struggle with learning to read words due to inconsistent spelling-sound correspondences.
method Used a neural network to structure learning trials to optimize generalization accuracy.
result Significant improvement in generalization accuracy compared to random or frequency-based sequences.
New algorithm forecasts health indicators for better equipment lifespan prediction.
problem Improving equipment lifespan prediction through health indicator forecasting.
method Generative + scenario matching approach using Gaussian Process.
result Superior performance compared to existing methods.
New fair regression methods improve health care spending predictions for undercompensated groups.
problem Current risk adjustment formulas underpredict spending for specific health groups, leading to unfair compensation.
method Developed new fair regression methods by integrating fairness considerations into the objective function.
result New methods lead to significant improvements in fairness (98%) with minimal impact on overall fit (4%).
LHIEM model predicts health, income, and employment over years.
problem Lack of path dependency in health policy simulations.
method Discrete-time microsimulation with Markov chain modules.
result Validates health care financing proposal through detailed modeling.
Automatically assesses the quality of online health articles.
problem Lack of automated tools to evaluate the quality of online health information.
method Data mining approach using 10 quality criteria and feature selection.
result Classifier achieved 84%-90% accuracy on 10 criteria.
Aims to find efficient neural architectures under resource constraints.
problem Resource constraints in neural architecture search.
method Lamarckian Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-objective Neural Architecture Search.
result Found models that are competitive with both hand-crafted and automatically-designed networks.
DynGraph2Seq predicts health stages from user activity graphs in online forums.
problem Predicting health stages from changing user activities in online forums.
method Formulated user activities as dynamic graphs, used DynGraph2Seq model with hierarchical attention.
result Demonstrated effectiveness and interpretability of DynGraph2Seq.
Mobile apps and machine learning improve malaria prevention and treatment.
problem High malaria cases and deaths in low-income countries.
method Adaptive interventions using mobile health apps and machine learning.
result Increased malaria testing, adherence, and provider skills.
Transformer model outperforms classical methods in childhood anemia prediction across diverse countries.
problem Generalizing childhood anemia prediction models across different countries and data scarcity.
method Transformer-based tabular foundation model compared to classical supervised methods using DHS data.
result Transformer model achieves lower Brier score and ECE in low-data settings, outperforming classical models.
Study assesses health plan risk measures for Solvency Capital Requirement.
problem Assessing risk measures for health plans to meet Solvency Capital Requirement.
method Three-part regression model with three GLMs for claim counts, episode allocation, and severity.
result Reduction in regression models compared to traditional methods.