New method detects spike-and-wave epileptiform discharges using Kendall's Tau-b.
problem Detecting spike-and-wave epileptiform discharges in EEG signals.
method Proposes a new method based on Kendall's Tau-b coefficient.
result High Specificity and rule in (SpPIn) for spike-and-wave discharge detection.
Motivation: State-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) systems often require handcrafted features specific to each entity type, such as genes, chemicals and diseases. Although recent studies explored using neural network models for BioNER to free experts from manual feature engineering, the performan…
In healthcare applications, temporal variables that encode movement, health status and longitudinal patient evolution are often accompanied by rich structured information such as demographics, diagnostics and medical exam data. However, current methods do not jointly optimize over structured covariates and time series …
Mathematical advances needed for Digital Twins, differing from traditional models.
problem Foundational mathematical advances required for Digital Twins.
method Multi-scale, multi-physics modeling and coupling, different reliability criteria and uncertainty assessments.
result AI/ML methods can perform well in biomedical problems but fail in simple engineering systems.
In multi-label text classification, each textual document can be assigned with one or more labels. Due to this nature, the multi-label text classification task is often considered to be more challenging compared to the binary or multi-class text classification problems. As an important task with broad applications in b…
SigTime learns interpretable signatures from time series data.
problem Discovering meaningful patterns in time series data with high complexity and limited interpretability.
method Jointly trains two Transformer models using shapelet-based and feature engineering representations.
result Learned shapelets serve as interpretable signatures for time series classification.
Using different sources of information to support automated extracting of relations between biomedical concepts contributes to the development of our understanding of biological systems. The primary comprehensive source of these relations is biomedical literature. Several relation extraction approaches have been propos…
Paper proposes a k-NN classifier for detecting spike-and-wave seizures in EEG.
problem Early detection of epileptic seizures in EEG signals.
method Uses t-location-scale distribution and k-nearest neighbors classifier.
result Demonstrates improved classification accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity on real data.
Develops variational Bayesian neural network for complex biomedical applications.
problem High computational cost of Markov Chain Monte Carlo in BNN.
method Variational Bayes inference for posterior consistency and classification accuracy.
result Developed statistical theory for posterior consistency and prediction accuracy.
Improves biomedical entity linking with latent type modeling.
problem Lack of fine-grained type information for entity disambiguation.
method Jointly models entity disambiguation and latent type learning without direct supervision.
result Significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art techniques.
Kernel test evaluates dynamical system data streams.
problem Evaluate if data streams from dynamical systems are from the same distribution.
method Proposes a novel kernel two-sample test for dynamical systems, addressing independence and autocorrelation challenges.
result Data-driven method with theoretical guarantees for anomaly detection.
Proposes BONMI for integrating noisy matrices from multi-source data.
problem Integrating noisy matrices from multi-source data with block-wise missingness.
method Exploits orthogonal Procrustes problem to align eigenspaces and completes missing blocks.
result Statistical rate for eigenspace of underlying matrix comparable to independently missing assumption.
Model predicts future term connections in biomedical research.
problem Capturing temporal dynamics and unobserved connections in biomedical term relationships.
method Variational inference model for positive-unlabeled learning on dynamic graphs.
result Model effectively predicts term relationships in real-world datasets.
Locally sparse neural networks improve interpretability for biomedical tabular data.
problem Overfitting and lack of interpretability in neural networks for tabular biomedical data.
method Locally sparse neural network with a gating network to select relevant features.
result The method outperforms state-of-the-art models in synthetic and real-world biomedical datasets.
BIOMRC dataset improves MRC performance, especially for non-experts.
problem Improving machine reading comprehension in biomedical texts.
method Developed a new dataset and tested two neural models, along with a BERT-based model.
result BERT-based model outperforms all other methods and reaches expert-level accuracy.
Enhancement attacks can falsely improve machine learning model performance in biomedical research.
problem The trustworthiness of machine learning in biomedical research is threatened by enhancement attacks.
method Developed two techniques to enhance prediction performance with minimal changes to features.
result Falsely improved classifiers' accuracy from 50% to almost 100% while maintaining high feature similarities.
Generates biomedical abstracts from titles, years, and keywords.
problem Difficulties in understanding biomedical research papers due to specialized language.
method Conditional transformer-based language model with metadata conditioning.
result Generated abstracts are more relevant and non-trivial than GPT-2.
Review of modern computational optimal transport methods for biomedical applications.
problem Efficient computation of optimal transport for big data.
method Regularization-based and projection-based computational methods.
result Advancements in computational optimal transport methods for biomedical research.
Method integrates logical rules into neural multi-hop reasoning for drug repurposing.
problem Capturing long-range dependencies in biomedical data.
method Combines logical rules with neural multi-hop reasoning using reinforcement learning.
result Our method outperforms baseline methods in drug repurposing tasks.
Recently we proposed a general, ensemble-based feature engineering wrapper (FEW) that was paired with a number of machine learning methods to solve regression problems. Here, we adapt FEW for supervised classification and perform a thorough analysis of fitness and survival methods within this framework. Our tests demon…
Paper proposes a new method for imputing missing biomedical data.
problem Missing values in biomedical data.
method Monte Carlo Dropout within Autoencoders.
result The method improves imputation error and predictive similarity.
Blind source separation (BSS), i.e., the decoupling of unknown signals that have been mixed in an unknown way, has been a topic of great interest in the signal processing community for the last decade, covering a wide range of applications in such diverse fields as digital communications, pattern recognition, biomedica…
The support vector machine (SVM) is a widely used machine learning tool for classification based on statistical learning theory. Given a set of training data, the SVM finds a hyperplane that separates two different classes of data points by the largest distance. While the standard form of SVM uses L2-norm regularizatio…
Monitoring the biomedical literature for cases of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) is a critically important and time consuming task in pharmacovigilance. The development of computer assisted approaches to aid this process in different forms has been the subject of many recent works. One particular area that has shown pro…
A multi-task learning model for slot tagging in biomedical domains.
problem Limited labeled data, memory constraints, and domain-specific slot types.
method Multi-task learning using deep bidirectional transformers.
result Outperforms previous state-of-the-art systems in efficiency and effectiveness.
Study improves LLMs for PPI analysis by addressing uncertainty.
problem Uncertainty in LLM predictions for PPIs.
method Fine-tuned LLaMA-3 and BioMedGPT models, LoRA ensembles, Bayesian LoRA for UQ.
result Competitive PPI identification performance across diverse disease contexts.
Ensemble models provide more accurate feature importance estimates than single models.
problem Inaccurate variable importance estimates due to model instability and stochasticity.
method Theoretical analysis and validation on benchmarks and real data.
result Ensembling at the model level reduces excess risk and provides more accurate variable-importance estimates.
Method cleans noisy training labels for biomedical data.
problem Accurately labeling biomedical data is challenging.
method Reliability-based training data cleaning with inductive conformal prediction.
result Significant enhancements in classification performance across multiple tasks.
HOoD detects near-out-of-distribution groups in correlated biomedical assays.
problem Detecting near-out-of-distribution cases in biased or incomplete data.
method Projects correlated measurements through a trained model and uses permutation-based hypothesis tests.
result HOoD reliably identifies OoD groups, outperforming other detectors.
Deep learning has shown its great promise in various biomedical image segmentation tasks. Existing models are typically based on U-Net and rely on an encoder-decoder architecture with stacked local operators to aggregate long-range information gradually. However, only using the local operators limits the efficiency and…
Biomedical data are widely accepted in developing prediction models for identifying a specific tumor, drug discovery and classification of human cancers. However, previous studies usually focused on different classifiers, and overlook the class imbalance problem in real-world biomedical datasets. There are a lack of st…
New DL model handles missing data in biomedical datasets.
problem Handling missing data in modern biomedical datasets.
method Proposed a new DL architecture, dlglm, for generalized linear models.
result Outperforms existing methods in MNAR missingness scenarios.
Measurement noise limits the advantage of nonlinear models over linear models in biomedical prediction
problem Nonlinear models vs. linear models in biomedical prediction
method Measurement reliability
result Measurement noise blurs the population-optimal predictor
spex-LVM infers interpretable latent factors from biomedical data.
problem Inability to learn sparse and interpretable hidden states.
method Factorial latent variable model with sparse priors and domain-relevant annotations.
result Robustly identifies relevant structure in RNA-seq datasets.
Biomedical text tagging systems are plagued by the dearth of labeled training data. There have been recent attempts at using pre-trained encoders to deal with this issue. Pre-trained encoder provides representation of the input text which is then fed to task-specific layers for classification. The entire network is fin…
Proposes a novel method to identify complex effects in multi-view datasets.
problem Challenges in analyzing multi-view biomedical datasets with complex interactions.
method Generalized kernel machine approach considering marginal and joint effects of features from different views.
result Effective identification of higher-order composite effects in multi-view datasets.
Two case studies reveal hidden biases and confounders in machine learning models of biomedical data.
problem Hidden biases and confounders in machine learning models of biomedical data.
method Two case studies examining biases and confounders in machine learning models of biomedical data.
result Prediction models performed well but hidden biases and confounders were revealed.
Extracts roles of authors from biomedical papers.
problem Lack of machine-readable author roles in biomedical papers.
method Statistical analysis of roles, Open Information Extraction, Naïve Bayes approach.
result Extracts roles with precision of 0.68, recall of 0.48, and F1 of 0.57.
Deep learning methods have shown extraordinary potential for analyzing very diverse biomedical data, but their dissemination beyond developers is hindered by important computational hurdles. We introduce ImJoy (https://imjoy.io/), a flexible and open-source browser-based platform designed to facilitate widespread reuse…
VICatMix clusters categorical biomedical data efficiently and selects relevant variables.
problem Efficient clustering of high-dimensional categorical biomedical data.
method Variational Bayesian finite mixture model with variational inference.
result Improves clustering accuracy and variable selection on noisy, high-dimensional data.
Self-supervised method predicts clean signal and noise distribution from noisy images.
problem Blind denoising and noise estimation in biomedical images with limited clean data.
method Two neural networks jointly predict clean signal and noise distribution from noisy observations.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on six biomedical image datasets.
Study generates synthetic fNIRS data and applies machine learning for improved neuroimaging.
problem Scarcity of high-quality fNIRS neuroimaging datasets.
method Synthetic data generation using Monte Carlo simulations and machine learning.
result Improved accuracy and efficiency of fNIRS tomography.
Machine learning speeds up FLIM analysis in biomedical research.
problem Complex, slow, and computationally expensive FLIM analysis.
method Machine learning techniques for faster and smarter FLIM data extraction and interpretation.
result Higher accuracy in classifying and segmenting FLIM images compared to conventional methods.
SiMLR reduces complex biomedical data into simpler, interpretable forms.
problem Handling high-dimensional biomedical data for better understanding and prediction.
method Similarity-driven multi-view linear reconstruction (SiMLR) with novel objective function and regularization.
result SiMLR outperforms other methods in various biomedical datasets.
Unified Bayesian model for multi-modal, small sample size biomedical data classification.
problem Classifying high-dimensional, multi-modal biomedical data with small sample sizes.
method Combines multi-modal data views into a latent space, prunes irrelevant features, and uses dual kernels for small sample size scenarios.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models and identifies features aligned with existing markers.
We present an analysis of the problem of identifying biological context and associating it with biochemical events in biomedical texts. This constitutes a non-trivial, inter-sentential relation extraction task. We focus on biological context as descriptions of the species, tissue type and cell type that are associated …
MedCAT extracts valuable medical information from unstructured text.
problem Extracting structured information from unstructured biomedical documents.
method Unsupervised machine learning for disambiguation of entities.
result Improved entity detection and linking compared to existing tools.
New algorithm improves model generalization in structured biomedical domains.
problem Improving model generalization in structured biomedical domains.
method Proposes a new regret minimization (RGM) algorithm and its structured extension for better performance in diverse environments.
result Significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art baselines on molecular property prediction, protein homology, and stability prediction.