Representation learning (RL) plays an important role in extracting proper representations from complex medical data for various analyzing tasks, such as patient grouping, clinical endpoint prediction and medication recommendation. Medical data can be divided into two typical categories, outpatient and inpatient, that h…
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Paper proposes a new method to handle missing data in medical records using sequential variational autoencoders.
problem Missing data in medical records due to sensor off-times and uneven data collection.
method Sequential variational autoencoders (VAEs) with a new methodology called Shi-VAE.
result Shi-VAE achieves the best performance in terms of both metrics compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Improves medication name inference for telemedicine and conversational agents.
problem Challenges in mapping user-friendly medication names to standardized ones.
method Entity-boosted two-tower neural network for ranking SMN to DMP.
result State-of-the-art results achieved with improved attention-based ranking.
IDA adapts to non-iid data in federated learning for medical imaging.
problem Statistical heterogeneity in federated learning data, especially in medical imaging.
method IDA (Inverse Distance Aggregation) is a novel adaptive weighting approach for clients based on meta-information.
result IDA outperforms Federated Averaging in handling unbalanced and non-iid data in federated learning.
The treatment effects of medications play a key role in guiding medical prescriptions. They are usually assessed with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which are expensive. Recently, large-scale electronic health records (EHRs) have become available, opening up new opportunities for more cost-effective assessments. …
Automatic representation learning of key entities in electronic health record (EHR) data is a critical step for healthcare informatics that turns heterogeneous medical records into structured and actionable information. Here we propose ME2Vec, an algorithmic framework for learning low-dimensional vectors of the most co…
This study applies neural models to automatically recognize medical entities from natural language.
problem Automated recognition of medical entities from natural language is complex and time-consuming.
method Utilizes deep neural sequence models trained on a large dataset of death certificates.
result Deep neural models can efficiently recognize medical entities from natural language.
Enhances medical code predictions for multi-morbidity patients using text classification.
problem Improving accuracy in predicting medical codes for patients with multiple illnesses.
method Used machine learning techniques, including multi-label medical text classification, to enhance predictions.
result High dimensional embeddings pre-trained on health data significantly improve multi-label classification performance.
Machine learning constructs problem-based medical records from electronic health records.
problem Difficulty in finding relevant medical information for clinical questions.
method Knowledge base completion using machine learning on electronic health records.
result Automatic construction of problem-based groupings of medications, procedures, and lab tests.
Hierarchical-CPI improves variable importance measurement for medical data.
problem Limited interpretability of complex medical models.
method Hierarchical-CPI measures conditional variable importance with statistical control, handling correlated data.
result Hierarchical-CPI outperforms existing methods in medical datasets.
This paper reviews deep learning methods for handling irregularly sampled medical time series data.
problem Handling irregularly sampled medical time series data for personalized treatment and precise diagnosis.
method Summarizes and compares deep learning methods categorized by technology and task.
result Achieved good results in data imputation and downstream tasks.
This paper addresses privacy in federated learning for medical imaging by estimating model uncertainty.
problem Privacy concerns in federated learning for medical imaging.
method Federated Learning (FL) for collaborative model training while preserving patient data privacy.
result Accurate uncertainty estimation in federated learning for medical imaging.
Extracting relevant information from medical conversations and providing it to doctors and patients might help in addressing doctor burnout and patient forgetfulness. In this paper, we focus on extracting the Medication Regimen (dosage and frequency for medications) discussed in a medical conversation. We frame the pro…
Medical Knowledge Integration into Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Treatment Regimesstat.ME
RL algorithms with medical integration improve personalized treatment recommendations.
problem Developing effective personalized treatment strategies for chronic diseases.
method Integrating medical knowledge into RL algorithms for DTR.
result Enhanced treatment recommendations with increased confidence.
Trust Issues: Uncertainty Estimation Does Not Enable Reliable OOD Detection On Medical Tabular Datacs.LG
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.
With the expeditious advancement of information technologies, health-related data presented unprecedented potentials for medical and health discoveries but at the same time significant challenges for machine learning techniques both in terms of size and complexity. Those challenges include: the structured data with var…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and their extensions have carved open many exciting ways to tackle well known and challenging medical image analysis problems such as medical image de-noising, reconstruction, segmentation, data simulation, detection or classification. Furthermore, their ability to synthesize imag…
This paper proposes a distributed deep learning framework for privacy-preserving medical data training. In order to avoid patients' data leakage in medical platforms, the hidden layers in the deep learning framework are separated and where the first layer is kept in platform and others layers are kept in a centralized …
Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms lack generalization and suffer from over-fitting whenever trained on small dataset,…
The paper uses geometric methods to classify medical data histograms.
problem Classifying medical data histograms for disease diagnosis.
method Information geometry of beta distributions for comparing and classifying histograms.
result Geometric tools, particularly negatively curved Fisher information, enable unique mean calculation and K-means classification.
Framework harmonizes EHR data across institutions for better analysis.
problem Heterogeneity of medical codes and terminologies hinder EHR data analysis.
method MASH (Multi-source Automated Structured Hierarchy) uses neural optimal transport and learned hyperbolic embeddings to align and structure EHR data.
result MASH generates interpretable hierarchical graphs for unstructured local laboratory codes.
Novel IRL method identifies suboptimal medical decisions in ICU data.
problem Identifying suboptimal medical decisions in clinical settings.
method Incorporates Inverse Reinforcement Learning with a pruning step to identify and remove suboptimal actions.
result Pruning step effectively identifies clinical priorities and values from suboptimal data.
Efficient equivariant MobileNetV2 for medical applications on mobile devices.
problem Limited computational resources for deep learning models in medical applications.
method Design and optimize an equivariant version of MobileNetV2 with model quantization.
result Achieved close-to state-of-the-art performance on medical dataset with improved efficiency.
Paper explores VRM for PSMLC with partially labeled medical images.
problem Improving PSMLC with limited labeled data.
method Applies VRM to PSMLC for better model performance.
result VRM improves PSMLC performance with partial labels.
Deep learning methods, and in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to an enormous breakthrough in a wide range of computer vision tasks, primarily by using large-scale annotated datasets. However, obtaining such datasets in the medical domain remains a challenge. In this paper, we present methods f…
The article explains how to estimate confusion matrices for classifiers using unlabeled data.
problem Estimating sensitivity and specificity of binary medical diagnostic tests without gold standard tests.
method Modifying diagnostic test solutions to estimate confusion matrices for classifiers on unlabeled data.
result The approach can be used to estimate accuracy statistics for supervised or unsupervised binary classifiers on unlabeled data.
Paper detects bias in AI medical models using CART.
problem Ensuring fairness in AI medical decision support systems.
method Uses Classification and Regression Trees (CART) algorithm to identify bias.
result Validated the CART approach in both synthetic and real-world data.
Foundation models alter medical data science workflow, challenging veridical data science principles.
problem Foundation models disrupt traditional data science practices in medicine.
method Critically examined the medical foundation model lifecycle and its deviation from veridical data science principles.
result Foundation models challenge veridical data science principles of predictability, computability, and stability.
Local Causal Structure Learning and its Discovery Between Type 2 Diabetes and Bone Mineral Densityq-bio.QM
A new algorithm discovers causal factors between T2DM and bone mineral density.
problem Discovering causal factors between T2DM and bone mineral density from clinical data.
method Prior-Knowledge-driven local Causal structure Learning (PKCL) algorithm.
result PKCL achieves more reliable results without long-standing medical experiments.
Deep learning predicts readmissions from less structured data.
problem Predicting readmissions from non-standard, unstructured medical records.
method Proposes a deep learning architecture that handles less structured data, including Spanish text.
result Achieves AUROC of 0.76 on a Chilean medical dataset, comparable to US results.
The paper explores how neural networks generalize differently from natural and medical images.
problem Discrepancies in generalization error between natural and medical images.
method Established and empirically validated a generalization scaling law with respect to intrinsic dataset properties.
result Higher intrinsic 'label sharpness' of medical images leads to higher adversarial vulnerability.
What has happened in machine learning lately, and what does it mean for the future of medical image analysis? Machine learning has witnessed a tremendous amount of attention over the last few years. The current boom started around 2009 when so-called deep artificial neural networks began outperforming other established…
FELICIA uses a centralized adversary to improve synthetic medical image generation.
problem Collaborative learning with limited and biased data in medical image analysis.
method Federated generative modeling with a centralized adversary.
result Data owners can generate high-quality synthetic images with high utility without sharing real data.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are high-dimensional data with implicit connections among thousands of medical concepts. These connections, for instance, the co-occurrence of diseases and lab-disease correlations can be informative when only a subset of these variables is documented by the clinician. A feasible approac…
Regular medical records are useful for medical practitioners to analyze and monitor patient health status especially for those with chronic disease, but such records are usually incomplete due to unpunctuality and absence of patients. In order to resolve the missing data problem over time, tensor-based model is suggest…
Deep learning methods exhibit promising performance for predictive modeling in healthcare, but two important challenges remain: -Data insufficiency:Often in healthcare predictive modeling, the sample size is insufficient for deep learning methods to achieve satisfactory results. -Interpretation:The representations lear…
Optimal Survival Trees improve accuracy in medical data analysis.
problem Analyzing censored outcomes in medical data.
method Mixed-integer optimization and local search techniques.
result Improves accuracy in large datasets compared to existing methods.
CAT framework improves AI medical screening fairness and reliability.
problem Imbalanced data, varying performance across cohorts, and patient-level inconsistencies in traditional metrics.
method CAT framework introduces patient-level assessment, entropy-based distribution weighting, and cohort-weighted sensitivity and specificity.
result Enhanced predictive reliability, fairness, and interpretability of AI-driven medical screening models.
MGMC method handles missing data in medical datasets for accurate disease classification.
problem Handling missing data in incomplete medical datasets for accurate disease classification.
method Multigraph Geometric Matrix Completion (MGMC) using multiple graph convolutional networks.
result MGMC achieves superior classification and imputation performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
Electronic medical record (EMR) data contains historical sequences of visits of patients, and each visit contains rich information, such as patient demographics, hospital utilisation and medical codes, including diagnosis, procedure and medication codes. Most existing EMR embedding methods capture visit-code associatio…
Risk adjustment has become an increasingly important tool in healthcare. It has been extensively applied to payment adjustment for health plans to reflect the expected cost of providing coverage for members. Risk adjustment models are typically estimated using linear regression, which does not fully exploit the informa…
In this paper, we present an effective deep prediction framework based on robust recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to predict the likely therapeutic classes of medications a patient is taking, given a sequence of diagnostic billing codes in their record. Accurately capturing the list of medications currently taken by a …
Paper explores Rashomon set models for more trustworthy medical conclusions.
problem Lack of comprehensive analysis of models in Rashomon set leads to misleading conclusions.
method Introduces Rashomon_DETECT algorithm and Profile Disparity Index (PDI).
result Combining differently behaving models in Rashomon set provides more trustworthy conclusions.
Word embeddings are a popular approach to unsupervised learning of word relationships that are widely used in natural language processing. In this article, we present a new set of embeddings for medical concepts learned using an extremely large collection of multimodal medical data. Leaning on recent theoretical insigh…
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.
A well-constructed classification model highly depends on input feature subsets from a dataset, which may contain redundant, irrelevant, or noisy features. This challenge can be worse while dealing with medical datasets. The main aim of feature selection as a pre-processing task is to eliminate these features and selec…
Bayes-CATSI: A variational Bayesian deep learning framework for medical time series data imputationcs.LG
Bayes-CATSI uses variational Bayesian deep learning for medical time series data imputation.
problem Missing values in medical time series data.
method Bayes-CATSI integrates variational inference for uncertainty quantification and context-aware imputation.
result Bayes-CATSI outperforms CATSI by 9.57% in imputation performance.
Method uses semi-supervised learning to estimate optimal treatment regimes from medical records.
problem Estimating optimal treatment regimes from electronic medical records.
method Imputation-based semi-supervised method using unlabeled data.
result Proposed method yields more efficient estimators of optimal treatment regimes.