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48 results for World Health Organization

This paper analyzes air pollution trends in Rwanda using low-cost sensors and machine learning.

problem Lack of reliable air pollution data in Rwanda due to high costs of equipment.
method Analysis of existing data and development of forecasting models using low-cost sensors and machine learning.
result Proposes forecasting models for air pollution data collected by low-cost sensors.

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.

In self-organizing networks, topology and dynamics coevolve in a continuous feedback, without exogenous driving. The World Trade Network (WTN) is one of the few empirically well documented examples of self-organizing networks: its topology strongly depends on the GDP of world countries, which in turn depends on the str…

2012-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning models outperform traditional actuarial methods in predicting health insurance costs.

problem Improving accuracy in health insurance pricing to identify concession opportunities.
method Developed and evaluated two machine learning models at the patient and employer-group levels.
result Machine learning models outperformed traditional actuarial models by 20% in predicting costs.

The large-scale organization of the world economies is exhibiting increasingly levels of local heterogeneity and global interdependency. Understanding the relation between local and global features calls for analytical tools able to uncover the global emerging organization of the international trade network. Here we an…

2007-04-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Examines fairness in ML for health, highlighting its importance and challenges.

problem Ensuring fairness in ML models for health to prevent health disparities.
method Reviews fairness notions in ML for health, including group, individual, and causal-based approaches.
result Discusses the importance and challenges of fairness in health-focused ML applications.

Enhances understanding of patient healthcare journeys using self-attention.

problem Capturing hidden dependencies in multi-level patient journey data.
method Proposes a multi-level self-attention network (MusaNet) for encoding patient journeys.
result MusaNet produces higher-quality representations than state-of-the-art methods.

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 ↗

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.

HealthSyn generates synthetic user behavior data for health interventions.

problem Lack of representative data for testing AI health interventions.
method Uses Markov processes to simulate diverse user actions, generating logs for ML algorithms.
result Synthetic data can be used to develop, test, and evaluate ML algorithms and RL-based interventions.

Deep learning has demonstrated success in health risk prediction especially for patients with chronic and progressing conditions. Most existing works focus on learning disease Network (StageNet) model to extract disease stage information from patient data and integrate it into risk prediction. StageNet is enabled by (1…

2020-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepCoDA provides personalized interpretability for complex health data.

problem Interpreting complex health data, especially compositional data, is challenging.
method DeepCoDA framework for high-dimensional compositional data, personalized interpretability through patient-specific weights.
result DeepCoDA maintains state-of-the-art performance and provides coherent, personalized interpretations.

Study characterizes PM2.5 dynamics in Bujumbura using low-cost sensors.

problem Characterize spatio-temporal variability of PM2.5 in Bujumbura.
method Used low-cost sensors to collect data from August 2022 to August 2023. Analyzed hourly, daily, and seasonal PM2.5 concentrations using RNN with LSTM.
result Hourly and annual PM2.5 concentrations in Bujumbura exceed WHO standards.

Paper learns data-driven organ matching rules from observational data.

problem Tackles organ transplantation compatibility using observational data.
method Representation learning to cluster donors and apply recipient transformations.
result Model outperforms human experts in predicting transplant outcomes.

Novel approach for robust domain generalization in health studies.

problem Challenges in making statistical inferences about underrepresented minority groups.
method Structured tensor completion for multi-dimensional domain generalization in linear regression models.
result Established rigorous theoretical guarantees and demonstrated minimax optimality.

The article explores how organisms and machines learn and recognize the world using Bayesian inference and thermodynamics.

problem Understanding how organisms and machines learn and recognize the world.
method Introducing a thermodynamic view of the Bayesian brain hypothesis, using a simple generative model of spiking neural populations.
result The process of Bayesian inference can be quantified using entropy, revealing the perceptual capacity of neural activity.

Stable health predictions need deconfounding test set features.

problem Stability of predictions in health machine learning is compromised by selection biases.
method Deconfounding the test set features improves prediction stability across different environments.
result Improved stability achieved by deconfounding test set features.

Traditionally, machine learning algorithms rely on the assumption that all features of a given dataset are available for free. However, there are many concerns such as monetary data collection costs, patient discomfort in medical procedures, and privacy impacts of data collection that require careful consideration in a…

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

CRC method provides tighter uncertainty intervals for CT images.

problem Expressing uncertainty in CT images in clinically meaningful terms.
method Semantically adaptive CRC procedure leveraging length minimization.
result Valid coverage of ground-truth images with tighter uncertainty intervals.

The paper extracts structured data from physician-patient conversations, reducing clerical burden.

problem Mining insights from physician-patient conversations for electronic health record documentation.
method Created a dataset of transcripts and summaries, extracted noteworthy utterances, and improved model performance.
result Extracting noteworthy utterances significantly boosts model performance for recognizing diagnoses and RoS abnormalities.

Study uses machine learning to detect early COVID-19 from CT images.

problem Early detection of COVID-19 from CT images.
method Machine learning methods applied to patches of CT images, feature extraction (GLCM, LDP, GLRLM, GLSZM, DWT), SVM classification.
result Best classification accuracy of 99.68% with 10-fold cross-validation and GLSZM feature extraction.