System identifies high impact research from academic papers.
problem Identifying high impact research amidst a growing volume of papers.
method Combines visual and text classifiers on a large dataset of PDFs and citation counts.
result Improved accuracy in predicting high impact research.
Study develops a new algorithm for assessing clinical trial abstracts.
problem Limited tools for assessing qualitative statements in clinical research.
method Developed a three-class sentiment classification algorithm using BERT model.
result Algorithm achieved 91.3% classification accuracy and 0.92 macro F1-Score.
Predicts academic risk in college students using interpretable machine learning.
problem Predicting academic risk from high-dimensional, unbalanced student data.
method Binary classification task using LightGBM model and Shapley value.
result 8 predictors for academic risk identified, including quality of academic partners and dormitory study atmosphere.
Paper discusses how financial institutions' model risk management can benefit academic research.
problem Improving academic research process and mitigating limitations.
method Adopting financial institutions' model risk management practices.
result Lessons from financial institutions can enhance academic research reliability.
Study predicts academic achievement using students' support networks.
problem Predicting academic achievement in college students.
method Decision tree and random forest algorithms applied to Ties data.
result Different types of support are important for different demographics and genders.
Federated learning platform for drug discovery without sharing data.
problem Lack of secure collaboration in drug discovery.
method Industry-scale federated learning platform using cryptographic aggregation.
result Generated new scientific discoveries in drug discovery.
Local ancestry inference (LAI) allows identification of the ancestry of all chromosomal segments in admixed individuals, and it is a critical step in the analysis of human genomes with applications from pharmacogenomics and precision medicine to genome-wide association studies. In recent years, many LAI techniques have…
ELM detects mislabels in Finnish academic publication ranks.
problem Detecting mislabeled academic publication ranks in Finland.
method Used Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) with features characterizing publication channels.
result ELM-based approach accurately detected mislabels compared to reference results.
Paper presents deep learning and ML for automated student performance estimation.
problem Evaluation of students' performance during the pandemic.
method In-depth analysis of deep learning and machine learning approaches.
result Better performance across different prediction tasks with fully data-driven approach.
Study on academic finance evolution over 30 years.
problem Understanding changes in academic finance research over time.
method Analysis of 32 finance journals from 1992 to 2021 using Structural Topic Model.
result Most journals have become more generalist over time, covering more topics.
Study uses ML and causal analysis to predict student performance factors.
problem Understanding socio-academic and economic factors affecting student performance.
method Employed machine learning techniques and causal analysis on 1,050 student profiles.
result Ridge Regression achieved robust predictions with MAE of 0.12 and MSE of 0.024.
Tool to estimate research impact for low-resource institutions.
problem Costly databases limit access for third-world institutions.
method Machine Learning for data analysis and panel regression.
result Approximation of SCOPUS Impact Factor for free.
Personalized medicine has become an important part of medicine, for instance predicting individual drug responses based on genomic information. However, many current statistical methods are not tailored to this task, because they overlook the individual heterogeneity of patients. In this paper, we look at personalized …
Bandit algorithms optimize treatment decisions for precision medicine.
problem Optimizing treatment decisions for individual patients based on genetic or molecular profiling.
method Contextual bandit algorithms that consider patient characteristics.
result Bandit algorithms are useful for mobile health and digital phenotyping.
This paper reviews random forest methods for analyzing longitudinal data in precision medicine.
problem Analyzing longitudinal data for precision medicine.
method Extensions of random forest for longitudinal data analysis.
result Categorization of random forest methods for different data structures and repeated measurements.
Study evaluates the impact of academic support center's face-to-face assistance on student performance.
problem Underestimation of Academic Support Center's true impact due to group bias.
method Applied causal inference theory and T-learner to evaluate conditional average treatment effect (CATE) of F2F personal assistance.
result Developed a new CATE function that depends on the number of F2F sessions, predicting improved CATE performance.
This paper considers the use of Machine Learning (ML) in medicine by focusing on the main problem that this computational approach has been aimed at solving or at least minimizing: uncertainty. To this aim, we point out how uncertainty is so ingrained in medicine that it biases also the representation of clinical pheno…
KT models struggle with student concept drift, but BKT remains the most stable.
problem Impact of student concept drift on KT models.
method Applied four KT models to five academic years of data.
result KT models generally degrade in performance with concept drift, BKT remains stable.
Social media enhances or diminishes scientific status, depending on usage.
problem Impact of social media on scientific stratification and mobility.
method Logistic Attribution Analysis combining statistical and machine learning methods.
result Social media promotes stratification and mobility, but beyond a threshold, it negatively impacts status.
There is tremendous interest in precision medicine as a means to improve patient outcomes by tailoring treatment to individual characteristics. An individualized treatment rule formalizes precision medicine as a map from patient information to a recommended treatment. A treatment rule is defined to be optimal if it max…
The study uses Hidden Markov Models to analyze student enrollment patterns and academic performance.
problem Limited understanding of how enrollment patterns affect academic performance.
method Applied Hidden Markov Models to categorize enrollment strategies and compare academic outcomes.
result Mixed enrollment strategies lead to better academic performance, especially during part-time semesters.
Expands statistical background for knee osteoarthritis treatment models.
problem Developing optimal exercise and weight loss treatments for knee osteoarthritis.
method Precision medicine models and jackknife cross-validation method.
result Jackknife estimator provides consistent value function estimation.
AI-enabled precision medicine promises a transformational improvement in healthcare outcomes by enabling data-driven personalized diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. However, the well-known "curse of dimensionality" and the clustered structure of biomedical data together interact to present a joint challenge in the hi…
Traditional medicine typically applies one-size-fits-all treatment for the entire patient population whereas precision medicine develops tailored treatment schemes for different patient subgroups. The fact that some factors may be more significant for a specific patient subgroup motivates clinicians and medical researc…
The paper advocates for interpretable, accountable, reproducible machine learning in medicine.
problem Black box models in medicine lack transparency and regulatory approval.
method Intrinsically interpretable modeling approaches and collaborative learning paradigms.
result Interpretable machine learning models can support clinical decisions and gain regulatory approval.
Private RL algorithm with privacy guarantees for personalized medicine decisions.
problem Privacy-preserving reinforcement learning for personalized medicine decisions.
method Developed a private optimism-based RL algorithm using joint differential privacy (JDP).
result Achieved strong PAC and regret bounds with a privacy guarantee.
Recent exploration of optimal individualized decision rules (IDRs) for patients in precision medicine has attracted a lot of attention due to the heterogeneous responses of patients to different treatments. In the existing literature of precision medicine, an optimal IDR is defined as a decision function mapping from t…
A new method for name disambiguation in academic networks using multi-view attention and recurrent neural networks.
problem Disambiguating authors with the same name in large-scale academic networks.
method Multi-view Attention-based Pairwise Recurrent Neural Network (MA-PairRNN) that divides papers into blocks based on author attributes and merges blocks of the same author.
result MA-PairRNN significantly improves name disambiguation performance on real-world datasets.
Develops methods to learn optimal treatment regimes using causal tree methods.
problem Lack of methods for estimating treatment effects and handling complex patient data.
method Causal tree and causal forest methods for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in cumulative regret and percentage of optimal decisions.
Proposes a federated transfer learning method to improve precision medicine models for underrepresented populations.
problem Underrepresentation of minorities in precision medicine research leads to underperforming risk prediction models.
method Two-way federated transfer learning strategy integrating diverse populations and healthcare institutions.
result Improves risk prediction models for underrepresented populations, reducing performance gaps.
Machine learning methods tend to outperform traditional statistical models at prediction. In the prediction of academic achievement, ML models have not shown substantial improvement over logistic regression. So far, these results have almost entirely focused on college achievement, due to the availability of administra…
AI enhances personalized drug development and decision-making in pharma.
problem Traditional drug development lacks personalized treatment plans.
method Application of AI in drug discovery, clinical trials, and post-marketing assessment.
result AI improves personalized medicine, optimizing health outcomes.
CAPITAL algorithm identifies optimal patient subgroups for better treatment.
problem Identify maximum number of patients benefiting from better treatment.
method Constrained Policy Tree Search (CAPITAL) algorithm to find optimal subgroup selection rule (SSR).
result Maximizes the number of patients with enhanced treatment effects.
Bayesian model clusters diverse 'omics data for disease subtyping.
problem Clustering diverse 'omics datasets conflates multiple structures.
method Multi-view Bayesian mixture model with semi-supervised learning.
result Identifies distinct clusters of patients for stratified medicine.
In medicine, visualizing chromosomes is important for medical diagnostics, drug development, and biomedical research. Unfortunately, chromosomes often overlap and it is necessary to identify and distinguish between the overlapping chromosomes. A segmentation solution that is fast and automated will enable scaling of co…
Estimates citation impact to recommend best publication venue.
problem Choosing optimal publication venue for academic papers.
method Treatment effect estimation and bias correction method.
result Effective recommendation of publication venues based on citation potential.
Study uses LLMs to create personalized treatment plans for rare gynecological tumors.
problem Suboptimal management and poor prognosis due to low incidence and heterogeneity of rare gynecological tumors.
method Developed a digital twin system using LLMs to integrate clinical and biomarker data.
result LLM-enabled digital twins efficiently model individual patient trajectories and identify potential treatment options.
Causal ML methods failed to validate their personalized treatment effects in two large trials.
problem Validating causal machine learning methods for personalized treatment effects in precision medicine.
method Assessed 17 mainstream causal heterogeneity ML methods using two large randomized controlled trials.
result None of the ML methods reliably validated their performance, internal or external, showing significant discrepancies between training and test data.
Bitcoin price prediction models fail to outperform a simple 'today's price' baseline, especially at longer horizons.
problem Lack of robust models that consistently outperform a naive price predictor at various horizons.
method Surveyed peer-reviewed papers, categorized by evaluation methodology, contrasted with social media discourse, and proposed methodological standards.
result No peer-reviewed study has shown robust superiority over the naive baseline across multiple market regimes at short-to-medium horizons.
In this paper, we propose a new deep feature selection method based on deep architecture. Our method uses stacked auto-encoders for feature representation in higher-level abstraction. We developed and applied a novel feature learning approach to a specific precision medicine problem, which focuses on assessing and prio…
Network medicine predicts repurposable drugs for COVID-19.
problem Identifying effective drugs for SARS-CoV-2 infections quickly.
method Artificial intelligence, network diffusion, and network proximity algorithms.
result A multimodal approach combining predictions from multiple algorithms outperforms individual methods.
Paper proposes federated offline RL for personalized medicine.
problem Privacy constraints and heterogeneity in healthcare data.
method Multi-site Markov decision process model and first federated policy optimization algorithm.
result The proposed algorithm achieves comparable suboptimality to centralized RL.
Efficiently trains BERT on academic GPUs in 12 days.
problem Training large-scale BERT models is expensive and time-consuming.
method Optimizes training on multiple GPUs and nodes, reducing costs.
result Trains BERT on academic GPUs in 12 days, not requiring expensive hardware.
Scientific investigations that incorporate next generation sequencing involve analyses of high-dimensional data where the need to organize, collate and interpret the outcomes are pressingly important. Currently, data can be collected at the microbiome level leading to the possibility of personalized medicine whereby tr…
POSL predicts dynamic convection volumes in hemodiafiltration patients.
problem Continuous, personalised predictions in personalised medicine.
method Adapted POSL to dynamically predict convection volumes using combinations of parametric regressions and machine learning.
result POSL outperformed candidate learners in predicting convection volumes with lower errors and better calibration.
The paper predicts diseases using both clinical and genomics data.
problem Clinical predictions using genomics data are not common.
method Integrated clinical and genomics datasets, machine learning, Principal Component Analysis for feature selection.
result 73% accuracy in predicting 75 disease classes.
The paper proposes a method to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects using pretraining strategies.
problem Estimating conditional average treatment effects (CATE) in the presence of many covariates.
method The approach leverages prognostic factors that also predict treatment effect heterogeneity, using the R-learner framework.
result The proposed method improves estimation accuracy and power for detecting treatment effect heterogeneity.
Personalized medicine aims at identifying best treatments for a patient with given characteristics. It has been shown in the literature that these methods can lead to great improvements in medicine compared to traditional methods prescribing the same treatment to all patients. Subgroup identification is a branch of per…