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A lack of information exists about the health issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people who are often excluded from national demographic assessments, health studies, and clinical trials. As a result, medical experts and researchers lack a holistic understanding of the health disparities fa…

2018-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Examines fairness in ML for health, highlighting its importance and challenges.

problem Ensuring fairness in ML models for health to prevent health disparities.
method Reviews fairness notions in ML for health, including group, individual, and causal-based approaches.
result Discusses the importance and challenges of fairness in health-focused ML applications.

GANs help create realistic synthetic health data, boosting medical research.

problem Challenges in creating realistic synthetic health data due to private patient data.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn and produce synthetic health data.
result GANs can produce realistic synthetic health data, overcoming challenges in OHD.

PEHRT harmonizes EHR data for translational research.

problem Barriers in using EHR data for translational research.
method Common pipeline including open-source code, visualization tools, and detailed documentation.
result PEHRT harmonizes EHR data to standardized ontologies and generates robust embeddings.

Machine learning algorithms designed to characterize, monitor, and intervene on human health (ML4H) are expected to perform safely and reliably when operating at scale, potentially outside strict human supervision. This requirement warrants a stricter attention to issues of reproducibility than other fields of machine …

2019-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Although there are millions of transgender people in the world, a lack of information exists about their health issues. This issue has consequences for the medical field, which only has a nascent understanding of how to identify and meet this population's health-related needs. Social media sites like Twitter provide ne…

2018-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

HealthSyn generates synthetic user behavior data for health interventions.

problem Lack of representative data for testing AI health interventions.
method Uses Markov processes to simulate diverse user actions, generating logs for ML algorithms.
result Synthetic data can be used to develop, test, and evaluate ML algorithms and RL-based interventions.

The distribution of health care payments to insurance plans has substantial consequences for social policy. Risk adjustment formulas predict spending in health insurance markets in order to provide fair benefits and health care coverage for all enrollees, regardless of their health status. Unfortunately, current risk a…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The majority of medical documents and electronic health records (EHRs) are in text format that poses a challenge for data processing and finding relevant documents. Looking for ways to automatically retrieve the enormous amount of health and medical knowledge has always been an intriguing topic. Powerful methods have b…

2017-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative model predicts menstrual cycle lengths accounting for self-tracking artifacts.

problem Uncertainty in self-tracked health data due to user adherence.
method Hierarchical, generative model using machine learning.
result Model yields state-of-the-art performance in predicting menstrual cycle lengths.

Italy and the Eurozone are heading in the year 2012 into a financial depression of unprecedented magnitude, with a forthcoming multitude of often contradictory public economic and financial stability emergency interventions whose ultimate endogenous and exogenous effects on public and private health spending and on the…

2012-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Research predicts healthcare index movements using historical OHLC data.

problem Predicting the directional movement of healthcare indices based on historical data.
method Supervised classification task with a one-step-ahead rolling window, using a diverse feature set including OHLC ratios.
result Robust predictive performance with accuracy exceeding 0.8 and Matthews correlation coefficients above 0.6, highlighting the importance of nowcasting features.

The widespread digitization of patient data via electronic health records (EHRs) has created an unprecedented opportunity to use machine learning algorithms to better predict disease risk at the patient level. Although predictive models have previously been constructed for a few important diseases, such as breast cance…

2019-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Two machine learning models detect anomalies in ER claims, saving up to 40% in improper payments.

problem Improper health insurance payments from fraud and upcoding.
method Two machine learning models: an upcoding model based on severity code distributions and a random forest model for claim sorting.
result Random forest model saved 12% to 40% in improper payments compared to a baseline approach.

Paper uses RL to optimize daily step distribution for better health biomarkers.

problem Lack of personalized PA distribution recommendations for health biomarkers.
method Developed an offline reinforcement learning algorithm to learn optimal PA distributions.
result Learned optimal policy suggests more consistent daily steps and tailored recommendations.

Cardea automates machine learning for EHRs, improving model building efficiency.

problem Lack of a trusted, open-source framework for automated machine learning in EHRs.
method Uses FHIR for data structure, AUTOML frameworks for feature engineering, model selection, and tuning, and an adaptive data assembler.
result Demonstrates framework's effectiveness on 5 prediction tasks, highlighting its flexibility and human competitiveness.

This research develops efficient surrogate models for predicting crack growth in metal structures.

problem Accurately predicting crack growth in metal structures under uncertainty.
method Employing Gaussian Process (GP) regression models for latent variable modeling to create probabilistic surrogate models.
result Surrogate models successfully encode material and load-related uncertainties in stochastic crack growth processes.

Novel imputation method for EHRs with structured and sporadic missingness.

problem Missing data in integrated EHR datasets for clinical applications.
method Macomss, a novel imputation framework for structurally and heterogeneously missing data.
result Macomss outperforms existing methods in imputation and downstream prediction accuracy.

New research finds uncertainty estimation techniques fail to reliably detect abnormal medical cases.

problem Uncertainty estimation does not reliably detect out-of-distribution patients in medical tabular data.
method A series of tests on various uncertainty estimation techniques on real-world medical data.
result Almost all techniques fail to identify out-of-distribution patients, contradicting earlier findings.