In this paper, a Wide Learning architecture is proposed that attempts to automate the feature engineering portion of the machine learning (ML) pipeline. Feature engineering is widely considered as the most time consuming and expert knowledge demanding portion of any ML task. The proposed feature recommendation approach…
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Study improves healthcare time series imputation by considering structured missingness.
problem Structured missingness in clinical data impacts time series imputation models.
method Analysis of different masking strategies on imputation methods using PhysioNet Challenge 2012 dataset.
result Masking choices significantly affect imputation accuracy and clinical prediction.
Objective: The aim of this study is to develop an automated classification algorithm for polysomnography (PSG) recordings to detect non-apneic and non-hypopneic arousals. Our particular focus is on detecting the respiratory effort-related arousals (RERAs) which are very subtle respiratory events that do not meet the cr…
In this work, a dense recurrent convolutional neural network (DRCNN) was constructed to detect sleep disorders including arousal, apnea and hypopnea using Polysomnography (PSG) measurement channels provided in the 2018 Physionet challenge database. Our model structure is composed of multiple dense convolutional units (…
Paper uses ensemblers to predict sepsis early from patient records.
problem Early detection of sepsis in patients.
method Imputation and weak ensembler technique applied to 40k patient records.
result Model achieved 93.45% accuracy and 0.271 utility score.
LLT-ECG classifies ECG signals without backpropagation using linear laws.
problem ECG signal classification efficiency and verifiability.
method Forward linear law identification for ECG signal features.
result State-of-the-art performance on real-world ECG datasets.
This paper interprets neural network ECG models by breaking them into understandable components.
problem Lack of model interpretability in deep learning for medical applications.
method Factorizes neural network models into interpretable black box components using hierarchical equations.
result Demonstrates interpretable component models for ECG waveforms, improving model understanding and predictability.
Modeling physiological time-series in ICU is of high clinical importance. However, data collected within ICU are irregular in time and often contain missing measurements. Since absence of a measure would signify its lack of importance, the missingness is indeed informative and might reflect the decision making by the c…
Feature Engineering Combined with 1 D Convolutional Neural Network for Improved Mortality Predictioncs.LG
The intensive care units (ICUs) are responsible for generating a wealth of useful data in the form of Electronic Health Record (EHR). This data allows for the development of a prediction tool with perfect knowledge backing. We aimed to build a mortality prediction model on 2012 Physionet Challenge mortality prediction …
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is considered as one of the principal causes of death in the world. Over recent years, this field of study has attracted researchers' attention to investigate heart sounds' patterns for disease diagnostics. In this study, an approach is proposed for normal/abnormal heart sound classificatio…
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that seriously endangers millions of people over the world. Hopefully, with the widespread availability of electronic health records (EHR), predictive models that can effectively deal with clinical sequential data increase the possibility to predict sepsis and take early preventiv…
Short-segment heart sound classification using an ensemble of deep convolutional neural networkscs.SD
This paper proposes a framework based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic heart sound classification using short-segments of individual heart beats. We design a 1D-CNN that directly learns features from raw heart-sound signals, and a 2D-CNN that takes inputs of two- dimensional time-frequency fea…
Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection from ECG Combining Convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory Networkseess.SP
Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart rhythm disorder associated with deadly and debilitating consequences including heart failure, stroke, poor mental health, reduced quality of life and death. Having an automatic system that diagnoses various types of cardiac arrhythmias would assist cardiologists to…
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…
For the weakly supervised task of electrocardiogram (ECG) rhythm classification, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks are two increasingly popular classification models. This work investigates whether a combination of both architectures to so-called convolutional long short-te…
APC overcomes missing data and class imbalance in time series data.
problem Missing data and class imbalance in time series data.
method Self-supervised learning with Autoregressive Predictive Coding (APC).
result APC improves classification performance on real-world medical datasets.
Sleep arousals transition the depth of sleep to a more superficial stage. The occurrence of such events is often considered as a protective mechanism to alert the body of harmful stimuli. Thus, accurate sleep arousal detection can lead to an enhanced understanding of the underlying causes and influencing the assessment…
Causal Imitation Learning handles noisy measurements and distribution shifts.
problem Learning from noisy state observations and distributional shifts.
method Causal inference framework and adversarial RKHS learning.
result Improved robustness to distribution shifts compared to standard methods.
The high rate of false alarms in intensive care units (ICUs) is one of the top challenges of using medical technology in hospitals. These false alarms are often caused by patients' movements, detachment of monitoring sensors, or different sources of noise and interference that impact the collected signals from differen…
ECG-DelNet uses neural networks to accurately delineate ECGs, even with low-quality data.
problem Lack of model explainability and small databases limit deep learning applicability in ECG detection.
method Adapted U-Net architecture for 1D data, used PhysioNet's QT database, applied data augmentation and regularization techniques.
result Best configuration achieved high precision and recall for P, QRS, and T waves.
The development of new technology such as wearables that record high-quality single channel ECG, provides an opportunity for ECG screening in a larger population, especially for atrial fibrillation screening. The main goal of this study is to develop an automatic classification algorithm for normal sinus rhythm (NSR), …
A model combines GRU-D for missing data and Neural ODEs for time series continuity.
problem Challenges of informative missingness in multivariate time series data.
method Combines GRU-D for missing data imputation and Neural ODEs for temporal continuity.
result Demonstrates improved performance on a time series classification task.
Proposes a novel imputation network for clinical time series data.
problem Missing value imputation in clinical time series data with sparsity, irregularity, and high-dimensionality.
method Variational-recurrent imputation network that considers correlated features, temporal dynamics, and uncertainty.
result The proposed method outperformed state-of-the-art methods on real-world EHR datasets.
Portable, Wearable and Wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) Systems have the potential to be used as point-of-care for cardiovascular disease diagnostic systems. Such wearable and wireless ECG systems require automatic detection of cardiovascular disease. Even in the primary care, automation of ECG diagnostic systems will …
Bayesian Recurrent Framework for Missing Data Imputation and Prediction with Clinical Time Seriescs.LG
Real-world clinical time series data sets exhibit a high prevalence of missing values. Hence, there is an increasing interest in missing data imputation. Traditional statistical approaches impose constraints on the data-generating process and decouple imputation from prediction. Recent works propose recurrent neural ne…
Sleep disorders are implicated in a growing number of health problems. In this paper, we present a signal-processing/machine learning approach to detecting arousals in the multi-channel polysomnographic recordings of the Physionet/CinC Challenge2018 dataset. Methods: Our network architecture consists of two components.…
A new model predicts in-hospital mortality from EHR data, handling missing values with uncertainty.
problem Handling missing values in non-stationary, noisy EHR data for accurate mortality prediction.
method Uncertainty-Gated Stochastic Sequential Model using variational recurrent networks.
result The model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting in-hospital mortality.
Study evaluates cross-validation methods for clinical ECG classification, finding leave-source-out more reliable.
problem Overoptimistic cross-validation estimates for new patient sources.
method Empirical evaluation of K-fold and leave-source-out cross-validation methods.
result Leave-source-out cross-validation provides more reliable performance estimates.
In recent years, the electrocardiogram (ECG) has seen a large diffusion in both medical and commercial applications, fueled by the rise of single-lead versions. Single-lead ECG can be embedded in medical devices and wearable products such as the injectable Medtronic Linq monitor, the iRhythm Ziopatch wearable monitor, …
Class Augmented Semi-Supervised Learning for Practical Clinical Analytics on Physiological Signalsphysics.med-ph
Computational analysis on physiological signals would provide immense impact for enabling automated clinical analytics. However, the class imbalance issue where negative or minority class instances are rare in number impairs the robustness of the practical solution. The key idea of our approach is intelligent augmentat…
Humans approximately spend a third of their life sleeping, which makes monitoring sleep an integral part of well-being. In this paper, a 34-layer deep residual ConvNet architecture for end-to-end sleep staging is proposed. The network takes raw single channel electroencephalogram (Fpz-Cz) signal as input and yields hyp…
Processing temporal sequences is central to a variety of applications in health care, and in particular multi-channel Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a highly prevalent diagnostic modality that relies on robust sequence modeling. While Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have led to significant advances in automated diagnosis …
In this article, we propose a novel ECG classification framework for atrial fibrillation (AF) detection using spectro-temporal representation (i.e., time varying spectrum) and deep convolutional networks. In the first step we use a Bayesian spectro-temporal representation based on the estimation of time-varying coeffic…
Recent literature on unsupervised learning focused on designing structural priors with the aim of learning meaningful features, but without considering the description length of the representations. In this thesis, first we introduce the metric that evaluates unsupervised models based on their reconstruction …
Previous literature on unsupervised learning focused on designing structural priors with the aim of learning meaningful features. However, this was done without considering the description length of the learned representations which is a direct and unbiased measure of the model complexity. In this paper, first we intro…
Automatic heart sound abnormality detection can play a vital role in the early diagnosis of heart diseases, particularly in low-resource settings. The state-of-the-art algorithms for this task utilize a set of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) band-pass filters as a front-end followed by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN…
Multivariate time series data in practical applications, such as health care, geoscience, and biology, are characterized by a variety of missing values. In time series prediction and other related tasks, it has been noted that missing values and their missing patterns are often correlated with the target labels, a.k.a.…
tBayes-MICE uses Bayesian MICE for time series data imputation.
problem Missing data in time series data.
method Bayesian MICE with MCMC, temporal features, and different samplers.
result tBayes-MICE reduces imputation errors and accounts for uncertainty.
Finite-size scaling of hetero-associative retrieval in continuous-signal-driven Ising spin systemscond-mat.dis-nn
A bridge between continuous signals and discrete Ising spins for associative memory.
problem Associative memory in continuous-signal-driven Ising spin systems.
method Multilayer Ising framework with PCA whitening and SimHash projection, coupled to pseudo-inverse memory couplings.
result Finite-size scaling of operational storage capacity with , approaching .
Intricating cardiac complexities are the primary factor associated with healthcare costs and the highest cause of death rate in the world. However, preventive measures like the early detection of cardiac anomalies can prevent severe cardiovascular arrests of varying complexities and can impose a substantial impact on h…
Effective and powerful methods for denoising real electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are important for wearable sensors and devices. Deep Learning (DL) models have been used extensively in image processing and other domains with great success but only very recently have been used in processing ECG signals. This paper pres…
Recurrent neural networks' hidden state can be reconstructed from its past, providing a theoretical framework for stability and tracking.
problem Hidden-state stability in RNNs
method Backward coherence analysis
result Almost-sure convergence, rates under mixing, interpretable limiting representation, finite pathwise stopping times, and theoretical framework for time-uniform confidence sequences.
The ICML 2013 Workshop on Challenges in Representation Learning focused on three challenges: the black box learning challenge, the facial expression recognition challenge, and the multimodal learning challenge. We describe the datasets created for these challenges and summarize the results of the competitions. We provi…
NIST's CTS Challenge evaluates speaker recognition using telephony data.
problem Improving speaker recognition accuracy using telephony data.
method Large-scale neural network architectures, extensive data augmentation, proprietary data, and fine-tuning.
result Remarkable improvements in speaker recognition performance.
Deep learning models are growing, posing new mathematical challenges.
problem Mathematical challenges in training, inference, generalization, and optimization of deep models.
method Formal mathematical analysis and communication with mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists.
result A set of new mathematical challenges in deep learning.
Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its worth in a series of artificial domains, and is beginning to show some successes in real-world scenarios. However, much of the research advances in RL are often hard to leverage in real-world systems due to a series of assumptions that are rarely satisfied in practice. We pres…
Sparse DNNs face scalability issues; MIT/IEEE/Amazon challenge analyzes best solutions.
problem Scalability issues in Sparse Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).
method Mathematically defined DNN inference computation, community submissions from various fields.
result Sparse DNN execution time, , is strongly dependent on the number of operations, .
ICLR 2021 challenge in computational geometry and topology attracted 16 teams.
problem Designing and evaluating computational methods in differential geometry and topology.
method Designing and hosting an open-source competition with repositories Geomstats and Giotto-TDA.
result 16 teams participated in the challenge, showcasing innovative contributions to computational geometry and topology.