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48 results for Medication Needs

Develops a two-stage conformal prediction method for Parkinson's disease medication needs.

problem Heterogeneous disease progression and treatment response in Parkinson's Disease.
method Two-stage conformal prediction framework with statistical guarantees.
result Quantifies uncertainty in medication needs predictions, improving clinical trust and quality of life.

CASCADE improves uncertainty communication in Parkinson's disease medication management.

problem Uncertainty in clinical decision-making for Parkinson's disease patients.
method CASCADE uses a novel conformal prediction framework to adaptively scale prediction intervals based on classification uncertainty.
result CASCADE produces more efficient and robust prediction intervals for Parkinson's disease patients.

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.

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 ↗

TorchIO simplifies medical image processing for deep learning.

problem Challenges in processing medical images like MRI and CT.
method Efficient loading, preprocessing, augmentation, and patch-based sampling.
result Enables researchers to focus on deep learning experiments.

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.

Generative models solve medical imaging inverse problems without needing paired data.

problem Reconstructing medical images from partial measurements.
method Score-based generative models trained on medical images, then sampling to reconstruct images consistent with measurements and physical model.
result Comparable or better performance in CT and MRI tasks, with improved generalization to unknown measurement processes.

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.

Investigates the number of experiments needed for statistical significance in medication testing.

problem Determining the number of experiments needed for a statistically significant result.
method Examines binomial and general probability distributions, considering placebo efficacy and varying distributions.
result The number of experiments needed can be significantly higher when placebo efficacy is considered.

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.

We study how language on social media is linked to diseases such as atherosclerotic heart disease (AHD), diabetes and various types of cancer. Our proposed model leverages state-of-the-art sentence embeddings, followed by a regression model and clustering, without the need of additional labelled data. It allows to pred…

2019-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds non-adherence to schizophrenia meds leads to earlier adverse events.

problem Impact of medication non-adherence on adverse outcomes in schizophrenia patients.
method Survival analysis, causal inference methods (T-learner, S-learner, nearest neighbor matching), different amounts of longitudinal information.
result Non-adherence to schizophrenia meds advances adverse events by 1 to 4 months.

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 ↗

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.

Accurate annotation of medical image is the crucial step for image AI clinical application. However, annotating medical image will incur a great deal of annotation effort and expense due to its high complexity and needing experienced doctors. To alleviate annotation cost, some active learning methods are proposed. But …

2019-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Causal inference deals with identifying which random variables "cause" or control other random variables. Recent advances on the topic of causal inference based on tools from statistical estimation and machine learning have resulted in practical algorithms for causal inference. Causal inference has the potential to hav…

2015-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Medical imaging models may encode demographic attributes without violating fairness, depending on the approach.

problem Discrimination in medical imaging models due to encoding demographic attributes.
method Examined marginal and class-conditional representation invariance, traditional fairness notions, and counterfactual fairness.
result Demographically invariant models may not necessarily be fair, and encoding demographic attributes can be advantageous.

Bayesian variational inference improves medical image segmentation confidence.

problem Improving interpretability and confidence in deep learning models for medical image segmentation.
method Encoder-decoder architecture based on variational inference for segmenting brain tumor images.
result The model segments brain tumors with both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.

New method explains survival analysis models using median-SHAP.

problem Need for explainable AI in medical applications, especially for survival analysis.
method Introduces median-SHAP for explaining survival analysis models.
result Conventionally used mean anchor point can lead to misleading interpretations; median-SHAP provides a better approach.

LMM predicts healthcare costs and risks with improved accuracy.

problem Wasteful healthcare spending and inefficiencies in risk prediction.
method Generative pre-trained transformer trained on patient event sequences.
result Improves cost prediction by 14.1% and chronic conditions prediction by 1.9%.

The study compares Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.

problem Comparing Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.
method Established geometric properties and compared distances in real-world medical data.
result Different distances lead to different optimizing nonlinear kernel embedding frameworks.

Prediction models can harm patients even when accurate, leading to self-fulfilling prophecies.

problem Prediction models can lead to harmful decisions that worsen patient outcomes.
method Formal characterization of harmful prediction models and analysis of their impact.
result Well-calibrated models are ineffective for decision-making as they do not change the data distribution.

Manifold learning has been successfully applied to a variety of medical imaging problems. Its use in real-time applications requires fast projection onto the low-dimensional space. To this end, out-of-sample extensions are applied by constructing an interpolation function that maps from the input space to the low-dimen…

2013-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

An integrated approach is proposed across visual and textual data to both determine and justify a medical diagnosis by a neural network. As deep learning techniques improve, interest grows to apply them in medical applications. To enable a transition to workflows in a medical context that are aided by machine learning,…

2019-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Many applied decision-making problems have a dynamic component: The policymaker needs not only to choose whom to treat, but also when to start which treatment. For example, a medical doctor may choose between postponing treatment (watchful waiting) and prescribing one of several available treatments during the many vis…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study identifies risk factors for subsequent suicide attempts in youth.

problem Uncertainty in suicide attempt identification from medical claims data.
method Integrative Cox cure model with regularization for survival analysis with uncertain events.
result Identifies risk factors for subsequent suicide attempts and distinguishes susceptibility from timing.

VarDeepPCA refines medical image segmentation from small datasets, improving anatomical plausibility and reducing errors.

problem Medical image segmentation fails on out-of-distribution data due to variations in scanners and protocols.
method VarDeepPCA learns valid anatomical geometries using only small in-distribution datasets, providing uncertainty estimates.
result VarDeepPCA restores segmentation maps to OOD data, improving anatomical plausibility and reducing errors.

Study uses healthcare claims data to identify Covid-19 risk factors without prior selection.

problem Identify risk factors for severe Covid-19 cases.
method Fine-grained hierarchical information from medical classification systems used to analyze over 33,000 covariates.
result Method has better predictive ability than pre-specified morbidity groups.

DDPMs can reproduce medical image context, showing interpolation between samples.

problem Understanding DDPMs' ability to learn spatial context in medical imaging.
method Used stochastic context models (SCMs) to produce training data and assess DDPMs' performance.
result DDPMs can generate contextually correct images, interpolating between samples.