The reactions of the human body to physical exercise, psychophysiological stress and heart diseases are reflected in heart rate variability (HRV). Thus, continuous monitoring of HRV can contribute to determining and predicting issues in well-being and mental health. HRV can be measured in everyday life by consumer wear…
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Framework uses human annotations to make models robust to spurious correlations.
problem Machine learning models fail when unmeasured variables change test distributions.
method Human annotations to augment training examples, UV-DRO objective for robustness.
result Improvements of 5-10% on digit recognition task and 1.5-5% on NYPD Police Stops analysis.
Smartphones can estimate heart rate from other sensor data.
problem Gaps in heart rate data from wearable sensors.
method Regression, SVM, and random forest algorithms to estimate heart rate from smartphone data.
result Smartphone data can improve heart rate estimation from wearable sensors.
Sleep-wake classification via quantifying heart rate variability by convolutional neural networkstat.AP
Fluctuations in heart rate are intimately tied to changes in the physiological state of the organism. We examine and exploit this relationship by classifying a human subject's wake/sleep status using his instantaneous heart rate (IHR) series. We use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to build features from the IHR se…
CardiacGen generates realistic ECG signals for training deep learning models.
problem Creating realistic synthetic ECG signals for training deep learning models.
method Hierarchical deep generative model with multi-objective loss functions.
result Synthetic ECG signals from CardiacGen can be used for data augmentation and improve classifier performance.
Improved heart rate and activity recognition with low-power wrist sensors.
problem Challenges in battery life, cost, and sensor performance in wrist-worn sensing applications.
method Used photoplethysmography (PPG) for heart rate and activity recognition, applying transfer learning and CNNs.
result Low sampling frequencies (5 Hz and 10 Hz) achieved good performance in heart rate and activity recognition.
Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is increasingly used to provide monitoring of the cardiovascular system under ambulatory conditions. Wearable devices like smartwatches use PPG to allow long term unobtrusive monitoring of heart rate in free living conditions. PPG based heart rate measurement is unfortunately highly susceptible…
Linear and non-linear measures of heart rate variability (HRV) are widely investigated as non-invasive indicators of health. Stress has a profound impact on heart rate, and different meditation techniques have been found to modulate heartbeat rhythm. This paper aims to explore the process of identifying appropriate met…
Prediction of Physical Load Level by Machine Learning Analysis of Heart Activity after Exercisescs.LG
Machine learning predicts exercise load from heart rate data post-exercise.
problem Monitoring energy expenditure in real life.
method Machine learning methods (linear regression, etc.) applied to heart rate data.
result Random forest and k-nearest neighbors classifiers predict load levels accurately.
We consider the problem of modeling cardiovascular responses to physical activity and sleep changes captured by wearable sensors in free living conditions. We use an attentional convolutional neural network to learn parsimonious signatures of individual cardiovascular response from data recorded at the minute level res…
Causal Explainability of Machine Learning in Heart Failure Prediction from Electronic Health Recordsstat.ML
The paper investigates causal relationships in heart failure prediction using machine learning.
problem Understanding the causal relationships between clinical variables and heart failure.
method Proposes a new computational framework for causal structure discovery (CSD) of mixed-type clinical variables for binary disease outcomes.
result Feature importance from nonlinear classifiers strongly correlates with causal strength of variables, but not differentiating cause and effect.
In this work we perform a study of various unsupervised methods to identify mental stress in firefighter trainees based on unlabeled heart rate variability data. We collect RR interval time series data from nearly 100 firefighter trainees that participated in a drill. We explore and compare three methods in order to pe…
Hybrid Amortized Inference improves PPG model interpretability.
problem Tension between PPG biomarker accuracy and clinical interpretability.
method Introduces PPGen for biophysical PPG signal-physiological parameter relation, and HAI for fast, robust estimation.
result Hybrid Amortized Inference accurately infers physiological parameters from PPG signals.
Generative ODE model learns unknown variables in medical systems.
problem Estimating unknown variables in complex medical systems.
method Variational autoencoder incorporating known ODE functions.
result Modeling known-unknowns improves system parameter discovery and extrapolation.
PhysioMTL: Personalizing Physiological Patterns using Optimal Transport Multi-Task Regressioneess.SP
PhysioMTL learns personalized HRV rhythms from wearable data, improving prediction and counterfactual analysis.
problem Challenges in interpreting HRV measurements due to variability and stressors.
method PhysioMTL combines Optimal Transport and MTL to learn personalized diurnal rhythms from heterogeneous data.
result PhysioMTL outperforms other methods in predicting unseen subjects and generating counterfactual effects.
The study uses transfer learning to compare surgical outcomes across racial/ethnic subgroups.
problem Difficulty in comparing surgical outcomes due to racial/ethnic and geographic differences.
method Causal inference framework and transfer learning to incorporate data from multiple populations.
result Racial and ethnic differences in surgical outcomes are found, with non-Hispanic Black patients experiencing wide variability.
Advance Prediction of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias using Patient Metadata and Multi-Task Networkscs.LG
We describe a novel neural network architecture for the prediction of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. The model receives input features that capture the change in RR intervals and ectopic beats, along with features based on heart rate variability and frequency analysis. Patient age is also included as a trainable embeddi…
The study examines machine learning classification algorithms and their generalizability using Framingham Heart Study data.
problem Addressing biases and generalizability issues in machine learning classification algorithms.
method Comparison of eight machine learning classification algorithms on Framingham Heart Study data.
result Double discriminant scoring of type I is the most generalizable algorithm.
A Novel Approach to the Diagnosis of Heart Disease using Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networkscs.LG
AI-assisted heart disease diagnosis reduces misdiagnosis and saves lives.
problem Misdiagnosis of heart disease leads to unnecessary deaths.
method Developed an AI application using ML and DNN algorithms on a dataset from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
result DNN model achieved a 92% accuracy rate, reducing misdiagnosis.
Heart rate estimation from electrocardiogram signals is very important for the early detection of cardiovascular diseases. However, due to large individual differences and varying electrocardiogram signal quality, there does not exist a single reliable estimation algorithm that works well on all subjects. Every algorit…
A multiple instance dictionary learning approach, Dictionary Learning using Functions of Multiple Instances (DL-FUMI), is used to perform beat-to-beat heart rate estimation and to characterize heartbeat signatures from ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals collected with a hydraulic bed sensor. DL-FUMI estimates a "heartbea…
New scalable method balances hospital profit status and heart attack outcomes.
problem Balancing covariate distributions and minimizing weight dispersion in large datasets.
method Combines kernel basis expansion and convex optimization for efficient and flexible weighting.
result For-profit hospitals use interventional cardiology similarly to other hospitals but have higher mortality and readmission rates.
This paper presents a novel signal compression algorithm based on the Blaschke unwinding adaptive Fourier decomposition (AFD). The Blaschke unwinding AFD is a newly developed signal decomposition theory. It utilizes the Nevanlinna factorization and the maximal selection principle in each decomposition step, and achieve…
Liu-type Shrinkage Estimators for Mixture of Poisson Regressions with Experts: A Heart Disease Studystat.ME
Developed shrinkage methods for Poisson regression models with experts to handle multicollinearity.
problem Multicollinearity in Poisson regression models with experts.
method Ridge and Liu-type shrinkage methods.
result Shrinkage methods offer more reliable estimates for coefficients in multicollinearity.
Machine learning improves CHD screening accuracy from 70% to 87.7%.
problem Predicting coronary heart disease using echocardiography and clinical features.
method Ensemble machine learning approach with model stacking and two-step stacking.
result Improved CHD classification accuracy from 70% to 87.7%.
Professional sports are developing towards increasingly scientific training methods with increasing amounts of data being collected from laboratory tests, training sessions and competitions. In cycling, it is standard to equip bicycles with small computers recording data from sensors such as power-meters, in addition t…
Paper tackles variable-length, incomplete wearable sensor data to improve personalized insights.
problem Variable-length and incomplete time series data from wearable sensors.
method HeartSpace integrates a time series encoding module and pattern aggregation network, along with a Siamese-triplet network for representation learning.
result Empirical evaluation shows significant performance gains in personality prediction, demographics inference, and user identification.
Cardiotoxicity related to cancer therapies has become a serious issue, diminishing cancer treatment outcomes and quality of life. Early detection of cancer patients at risk for cardiotoxicity before cardiotoxic treatments and providing preventive measures are potential solutions to improve cancer patients's quality of …
Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis; Ranking the Significant Features Using Random Trees Modelphysics.med-ph
Study improves CAD diagnosis accuracy by selecting significant features.
problem Improving accuracy of CAD diagnosis through feature selection.
method Integrated machine learning approach using random trees (RTs), C5.0, SVM, and CHAID.
result Random trees model outperforms other models in CAD diagnosis.
Deep learning predicts heart failure readmission from clinical notes.
problem Predicting and preventing heart failure readmission.
method Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) trained on clinical notes.
result Deep learning models outperform traditional machine learning methods in readmission prediction.
Wavesplit separates speech from mixtures using clustering.
problem Permutation problem in speech separation.
method End-to-end system infers speaker representations and estimates signals.
result Robust separation of long recordings, new benchmarks set.
Variable selection is of significant importance for classification and regression tasks in machine learning and statistical applications where both predictability and explainability are needed. In this paper, a Copula Entropy (CE) based method for variable selection which use CE based ranks to select variables is propo…
Heart diseases constitute a global health burden, and the problem is exacerbated by the error-prone nature of listening to and interpreting heart sounds. This motivates the development of automated classification to screen for abnormal heart sounds. Existing machine learning-based systems achieve accurate classificatio…
Study reviews machine learning techniques for stress monitoring.
problem Improving accuracy of stress monitoring devices.
method Reviewed machine learning techniques for various stress indicators.
result Choosing the right classifier depends on multiple factors.
New risk measure extensions preserve key properties.
problem Extending risk measures to larger spaces while preserving properties.
method Unique extension of dilatation monotone risk measures to .
result Risk measures extend uniquely and preserve monotonicity, convexity, and cash-additivity.
New system uses wearable bio-signals for easy authentication.
problem Security of private information on wearables is a concern.
method Context-dependent soft-biometric authentication using heart rate, gait, and breathing audio.
result Binary SVM with RBF kernel achieves high accuracy and low EER.
New criteria distinguish cause from effect in data, overcoming statistical limitations.
problem Determining causal direction from statistical dependence alone.
method Intuitive criteria based on simplicity of prediction, tested on synthetic data.
result Criteria accurately distinguish cause from effect in various scenarios.
Framework for imputing missing heart data to simulate brain-heart interactions.
problem Lack of multi-modal patient data representing heart and brain processes.
method Probabilistic framework for joint cardiac data imputation and mechanistic model personalization.
result Accurate imputation of missing cardiac features in incomplete datasets.
Early hospital mortality prediction is critical as intensivists strive to make efficient medical decisions about the severely ill patients staying in intensive care units. As a result, various methods have been developed to address this problem based on clinical records. However, some of the laboratory test results are…
DeepBeat uses deep learning to assess signal quality and detect arrhythmia in wearable devices.
problem Detecting atrial fibrillation from wearable devices with noise.
method Multi-task deep learning approach using convolutional denoising autoencoders.
result Significantly improved AF detection accuracy compared to traditional methods.
Making SGD Parameter-Freemath.OC
Develops a parameter-free SGD algorithm with optimal convergence rate.
problem Optimizing parameters in stochastic convex optimization.
method A novel parameter-free algorithm for SGD with high-probability guarantees and adaptive properties.
result Achieves optimal convergence rate with only a double-logarithmic factor increase compared to known-parameter settings.
We present a novel method for convex unconstrained optimization that, without any modifications, ensures: (i) accelerated convergence rate for smooth objectives, (ii) standard convergence rate in the general (non-smooth) setting, and (iii) standard convergence rate in the stochastic optimization setting. To the best of…
We consider the problem of locating a point-source heart arrhythmia using data from a standard diagnostic procedure, where a reference catheter is placed in the heart, and arrival times from a second diagnostic catheter are recorded as the diagnostic catheter moves around within the heart. We model this situation as a …
The relationship between statistical dependency and causality lies at the heart of all statistical approaches to causal inference. Recent results in the ChaLearn cause-effect pair challenge have shown that causal directionality can be inferred with good accuracy also in Markov indistinguishable configurations thanks to…
Heart disease is the leading cause of death, and experts estimate that approximately half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people who have not been flagged as "at risk." Thus, there is an urgent need to improve the accuracy of heart disease diagnosis. To this end, we investigate the potential of using data ana…
Patient subtyping based on temporal observations can lead to significantly nuanced subtyping that acknowledges the dynamic characteristics of diseases. Existing methods for subtyping trajectories treat the evolution of clinical observations as a homogeneous process or employ data available at regular intervals. In real…
Improving the precision of heart diseases detection has been investigated by many researchers in the literature. Such improvement induced by the overwhelming health care expenditures and erroneous diagnosis. As a result, various methodologies have been proposed to analyze the disease factors aiming to decrease the phys…
Method discovers nonlinear relations from time series data.
problem Identifying directional relations from nonlinear interactions in time series.
method Minimum predictive information regularization method for deep learning.
result Substantially outperforms other methods for learning nonlinear relations.