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48 results for Medical Diagnostics

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.

AI predicts medical specialty diagnostic choices from EHR records.

problem Predicting timely medical specialty diagnostic workups for patients.
method Ensemble of feed-forward neural networks trained on EHR data.
result Significantly higher accuracy compared to traditional checklists.

Machine learning promises to revolutionize clinical decision making and diagnosis. In medical diagnosis a doctor aims to explain a patient's symptoms by determining the diseases \emph{causing} them. However, existing diagnostic algorithms are purely associative, identifying diseases that are strongly correlated with a …

2019-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper detects biases in medical imaging ML models using counterfactual analysis.

problem Bias in medical imaging ML models negatively impacts generalization performance.
method Counterfactual invariance framework combining conditional latent diffusion models and statistical hypothesis testing.
result The method identifies and quantifies biases without direct access to counterfactual data.

Interpretable deep learning is a fundamental building block towards safer AI, especially when the deployment possibilities of deep learning-based computer-aided medical diagnostic systems are so eminent. However, without a computational formulation of black-box interpretation, general interpretability research rely hea…

2018-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning detects NASH patients from medical claims data.

problem Detecting undiagnosed NASH patients for screening and management.
method Gradient-boosted decision trees trained on administrative medical claims data.
result Model precision for NASH detection is significantly higher than NASH incidence.

Unified framework explains few-shot multimodal medical imaging performance.

problem Limited labeled data in rare diseases and low-resource settings.
method PAC learning, VC theory, PAC Bayesian analysis, information gain, Chain of Thought reasoning.
result Unified theoretical framework for few-shot multimodal medical imaging.

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…

2020-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Simplifies decision-making during medical exams with cost-efficient feature acquisition.

problem Guiding physicians during examination acquisition for accurate and efficient diagnosis.
method Dropout at input layer and integrated gradients at test-time for dynamic feature importance.
result More cost- and feature-efficient than prior approaches, achieving higher overall accuracy.

Paper proposes machine learning model for early Alzheimer's diagnosis.

problem Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.
method Machine learning models, demographic, biomarker, and cognitive test data.
result 90% accuracy and 87% accuracy in predicting Alzheimer's development.

Bias in training data affects diagnostic algorithms' performance.

problem Bias in training data leads to biased predictions in diagnostic algorithms.
method Survey of MICCAI 2018 proceedings, analysis of a skin lesions dataset, adversarial training setup.
result Classifier performance varies significantly between subgroups based on age and sex.

Study proposes a statistical test for Vision Transformer's attention mechanisms.

problem ViT's attention mechanisms may focus on irrelevant regions, leading to unreliable evidence.
method Selective inference framework to quantify statistical significance of attentions as p-values.
result Proposed method enables reliable quantification of false positive detection probability of attentions.

Supervised topic models can help clinical researchers find interpretable cooccurence patterns in count data that are relevant for diagnostics. However, standard formulations of supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation have two problems. First, when documents have many more words than labels, the influence of the labels w…

2016-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes classification algorithms with bounds on error rates.

problem Bounding uncertainties in classifier outputs for diagnostic testing.
method Set-theoretic and probabilistic arguments to derive uniform error bounds.
result Optimal partition minimizes the largest Gershgorin radius of the confusion matrix.

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…

2018-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Simulates patient pathways to detect delayed rare disease diagnoses.

problem Delayed rare disease diagnoses in France, causing health system and patient harm.
method Probabilistic modelling of patient pathways to create an alert system.
result Alert system detects and refers wandering patients to CRMRs.

Machine-learned diagnosis models have shown promise as medical aides but are trained under a closed-set assumption, i.e. that models will only encounter conditions on which they have been trained. However, it is practically infeasible to obtain sufficient training data for every human condition, and once deployed such …

2019-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a new method to create object models from medical images.

problem Variability in anatomical structures and textures limits observer performance.
method Progressive Growing AmbientGAN (ProAmGAN) for creating stochastic object models from medical imaging measurements.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of ProAmGAN in creating realistic object models.

BBNN improves neural network accuracy and uncertainty quantification.

problem Overfitting and lack of interpretability in probabilistic neural networks.
method Boosted Bayesian Neural Networks (BBNN) using Boosting Variational Inference (BVI).
result BBNN achieves ~5% higher accuracy and superior uncertainty quantification.

Systematic review of multimodal data challenges and solutions.

problem Challenges in integrating diverse data types for improved diagnostics and personalized care.
method Synthesizing findings from 69 studies on technical obstacles and recent methodological advances.
result Promising solutions like transfer learning, generative models, attention mechanisms, and neural architecture search.

Dynamic memory prevents forgetting in continuous learning of medical images.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in machine learning models over time due to domain shifts.
method Dynamic memory to store and replay diverse training data subsets.
result Dynamic memory mitigates forgetting without knowing when shifts occur.

CovidCare uses EMR data to predict patient outcomes in emerging epidemics.

problem Intelligent prognosis for patients with emerging infectious diseases during rapid epidemics.
method Transfer learning and knowledge distillation from existing EMR data.
result CovidCare outperforms baseline methods in predicting patient length of stay.

Study finds AI can predict diverse cardiac and non-cardiac diagnoses from a single ECG.

problem Narrow focus of ECG analysis models for diverse medical conditions.
method Exploratory study using a single AI model to predict multiple ICD codes.
result Model achieved AUROC scores > 0.8 for 253 cardiac and 172 non-cardiac diagnoses.

Deep chest X-ray classifiers show bias in predicting diagnoses.

problem Bias in deep learning classifiers predicting diagnoses from chest X-rays.
method Trained convolutional neural networks on multiple public datasets to predict 14 diagnostic labels.
result True positive rates vary significantly among different protected attributes, indicating bias.

Cost-efficient feature selection for multi-label classification in medicine.

problem Feature selection in multi-label classification with cost constraints.
method Sequential feature selection maximizing conditional mutual information, followed by cost-free feature selection using shadow features.
result The method effectively reduces prediction costs in medical applications.

Computational paralinguistic analysis is increasingly being used in a wide range of cyber applications, including security-sensitive applications such as speaker verification, deceptive speech detection, and medical diagnostics. While state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, such as deep neural networks, can provi…

2017-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗