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Paper uses TDA for automated Parkinson's disease classification and severity assessment.
This paper considers the problem of brain disease classification based on connectome data. A connectome is a network representation of a human brain. The typical connectome classification problem is very challenging because of the small sample size and high dimensionality of the data. We propose to use simultaneous app…
We develop three efficient approaches for generating visual explanations from 3D convolutional neural networks (3D-CNNs) for Alzheimer's disease classification. One approach conducts sensitivity analysis on hierarchical 3D image segmentation, and the other two visualize network activations on a spatial map. Visual chec…
MOTGNN integrates multi-omics data for disease classification with improved accuracy and interpretability.
Improves disease progression prediction using auxiliary surrogate labels and health markers.
StaPLR improves Alzheimer's disease classification by identifying important MRI scan types and measures.
MGMC method handles missing data in medical datasets for accurate disease classification.
This study evaluates adversarial attacks and defenses for chest X-ray disease classification.
Background and objectives: Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder that affects the motor system producing lack of coordination, resting tremor, and rigidity. Impairments in handwriting are among the main symptoms of the disease. Handwriting analysis can help in supporting the diagnosis and in monitoring the pro…
A deep learning approach classifies medical images hierarchically.
Machine learning improves CHD screening accuracy from 70% to 87.7%.
Recently, Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) has been introduced as a novel and versatile framework for computer-aided disease classification. GDL uses patient meta-information such as age and gender to model patient cohort relations in a graph structure. Concepts from graph signal processing are leveraged to learn the opti…
Disease prediction or classification using health datasets involve using well-known predictors associated with the disease as features for the models. This study considers multiple data components of an individual's health, using the relationship between variables to generate features that may improve the performance o…
Hierarchical CNNs improve diagnosis of GI diseases from histopathological images.
Pre-trained model from healthy ADLs improves gait pattern classification for Parkinson's disease.
engGNN combines external and generated graphs to improve disease classification and biomarker discovery.
We investigate the automatic classification of patient discharge notes into standard disease labels. We find that Convolutional Neural Networks with Attention outperform previous algorithms used in this task, and suggest further areas for improvement.
New fair regression method improves fairness in chronic kidney disease classification.
Automated methods for Alzheimer's disease (AD) classification have the potential for great clinical benefits and may provide insight for combating the disease. Machine learning, and more specifically deep neural networks, have been shown to have great efficacy in this domain. These algorithms often use neurological ima…
The paper predicts diseases using both clinical and genomics data.
Bayesian neural networks improve SHD classification and uncertainty quantification.
Due to the rapid innovation of technology and the desire to find and employ biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease, high-dimensional data classification problems are routinely encountered in neuroimaging studies. To avoid over-fitting and to explore relationships between disease and potential biomarkers, feature lear…
Clinical diagnostic decision making and population-based studies often rely on multi-modal data which is noisy and incomplete. Recently, several works proposed geometric deep learning approaches to solve disease classification, by modeling patients as nodes in a graph, along with graph signal processing of multi-modal …
Novel approach combines local and global brain changes for AD prediction.
It is crucial to provide compatible treatment schemes for a disease according to various symptoms at different stages. However, most classification methods might be ineffective in accurately classifying a disease that holds the characteristics of multiple treatment stages, various symptoms, and multi-pathogenesis. More…
A new kernel measures brain network similarities, improving disease classification.
This paper introduces a deep-learning based efficient classifier for common dermatological conditions, aimed at people without easy access to skin specialists. We report approximately 80% accuracy, in a situation where primary care doctors have attained 57% success rate, according to recent literature. The rationale of…
Deep learning models have the capacity to fundamentally revolutionize medical imaging analysis, and they have particularly interesting applications in computer-aided diagnosis. We attempt to use deep learning neural networks to diagnose funduscopic images, visual representations of the interior of the eye. Recently, a …
This paper reports the method and evaluation results of MedAusbild team for ISIC challenge task. Since early 2017, our team has worked on melanoma classification [1][6], and has employed deep learning since beginning of 2018 [7]. Deep learning helps researchers absolutely to treat and detect diseases by analyzing medic…
Crohn's disease, one of two inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), affects 200,000 people in the UK alone, or roughly one in every 500. We explore the feasibility of deep learning algorithms for identification of terminal ileal Crohn's disease in Magnetic Resonance Enterography images on a small dataset. We show that they …
Paper introduces a framework for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using higher-order topological features from fMRI.
Study proposes deep learning techniques to diagnose and differentiate Celiac Disease and Environmental Enteropathy from biopsy images.
The MobileNet model was used by applying transfer learning on the 7 skin diseases to create a skin disease classification system on Android application. The proponents gathered a total of 3,406 images and it is considered as imbalanced dataset because of the unequal number of images on its classes. Using different samp…
Alzheimer's disease is a major cause of dementia. Its diagnosis requires accurate biomarkers that are sensitive to disease stages. In this respect, we regard probabilistic classification as a method of designing a probabilistic biomarker for disease staging. Probabilistic biomarkers naturally support the interpretation…
In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of applying Variational Autoencoder (VAE) [10] for anomaly detection in skin disease images. VAE is a class of deep generative models which is trained by maximizing the evidence lower bound of data distribution [10]. When trained on only normal data, the resulting model is ab…
Arguably, unsupervised learning plays a crucial role in the majority of algorithms for processing brain imaging. A recently introduced unsupervised approach Deep InfoMax (DIM) is a promising tool for exploring brain structure in a flexible non-linear way. In this paper, we investigate the use of variants of DIM in a se…
WEST uses EHRs and expert cases to improve rare disease phenotyping.
Portable, Wearable and Wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) Systems have the potential to be used as point-of-care for cardiovascular disease diagnostic systems. Such wearable and wireless ECG systems require automatic detection of cardiovascular disease. Even in the primary care, automation of ECG diagnostic systems will …
QC-SPHARM detects Alzheimer's Disease early using hippocampal surface geometry.
Paper uses ML to classify liver diseases from clinical data.
Disease classification is a crucial element of biomedical research. Recent studies have demonstrated that machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) modeling, produce similar or improved predictive capabilities in comparison to the traditional method of Logistic Regression. In addition, it has be…
Graphs are widely used as a natural framework that captures interactions between individual elements represented as nodes in a graph. In medical applications, specifically, nodes can represent individuals within a potentially large population (patients or healthy controls) accompanied by a set of features, while the gr…
ChronoMID builds on the success of cross-modal convolutional neural networks (X-CNNs), making the novel application of the technique to medical imaging data. Specifically, this paper presents and compares alternative approaches - timestamps and difference images - to incorporate temporal information for the classificat…
We propose a representation learning framework for medical diagnosis domain. It is based on heterogeneous network-based model of diagnostic data as well as modified metapath2vec algorithm for learning latent node representation. We compare the proposed algorithm with other representation learning methods in two practic…
Deep learning is attracting significant interest in the neuroimaging community as a means to diagnose psychiatric and neurological disorders from structural magnetic resonance images. However, there is a tendency amongst researchers to adopt architectures optimized for traditional computer vision tasks, rather than des…
Donor-aware scRNA-seq benchmarks improve classification accuracy in inflammatory bowel disease.
This study seeks to validate a search protocol of ill health-related terms using Twitter data which can later be used to understand if, and how, Twitter can reveal information on the current health situation. We extracted conversations related to health and disease postings on Twitter using a set of pre-defined keyword…
We describe a new method to automatically discriminate between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and elderly controls, based on multidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features. This approach uses spherical harmonics (SPHARM) coefficients to model the shape of the hi…