Patients who suffer an acute coronary syndrome are at elevated risk for adverse cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction and cardiovascular death. Accurate assessment of this risk is crucial to their course of care. We focus on estimating a patient's risk of cardiovascular death after an acute coronary syndr…
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Study proposes a multimodal model for cardiovascular risk prediction using EHRs.
problem Lack of comprehensive risk prediction from EHRs due to unstructured text.
method Proposes a multimodal BiLSTM model integrating structured and unstructured EHR data.
result Proposed BiLSTM model outperforms other DNN architectures in cardiovascular risk prediction.
Neural network predicts cardiovascular events from EHRs with high accuracy.
problem Predicting onset of cardiovascular diseases from electronic health records.
method Multi-task gated recurrent units with attention mechanism.
result Model outperforms clinical risk scores in predicting stroke and myocardial infarction.
Models for predicting the risk of cardiovascular events based on individual patient characteristics are important tools for managing patient care. Most current and commonly used risk prediction models have been built from carefully selected epidemiological cohorts. However, the homogeneity and limited size of such coho…
We train and validate a semi-supervised, multi-task LSTM on 57,675 person-weeks of data from off-the-shelf wearable heart rate sensors, showing high accuracy at detecting multiple medical conditions, including diabetes (0.8451), high cholesterol (0.7441), high blood pressure (0.8086), and sleep apnea (0.8298). We compa…
Study creates a multimodal learning framework for CVD risk prediction.
problem Predicting cardiovascular disease risk in diverse populations.
method Combines cross modal transformers, graph neural networks, and causal representation learning.
result Model predicts personalized CVD risk with causal invariance across subpopulations.
Guidelines for the management of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) recommend the use of risk stratification models to identify patients most likely to benefit from cholesterol-lowering and other therapies. These models have differential performance across race and gender groups with inconsistent behavior a…
A clinician desires to use a risk-stratification method that achieves confident risk-stratification - the risk estimates of the different patients reflect the true risks with a high probability. This allows him/her to use these risks to make accurate predictions about prognosis and decisions about screening, treatments…
Deep learning improves CVD risk prediction from health records.
problem Predicting cardiovascular disease risk from administrative health data.
method Combined survival analysis and deep learning models.
result Deep learning models outperform traditional Cox models in accuracy and explained time-to-event occurrence.
BoXHED boosts hazard estimation for dynamic health risk scores.
problem Analyzing time-varying health vitals for disease onset prediction.
method Gradient boosting for nonparametric hazard function estimation with time-dependent covariates.
result Novel interaction effects among risk factors identified in cardiovascular disease onset data.
We consider the problem of modeling cardiovascular responses to physical activity and sleep changes captured by wearable sensors in free living conditions. We use an attentional convolutional neural network to learn parsimonious signatures of individual cardiovascular response from data recorded at the minute level res…
SBI improves uncertainty analysis of cardiovascular biomarkers.
problem Mapping waveforms back to plausible physiological parameters.
method Simulation-based inference (SBI) for statistical inference.
result Posterior distributions provide a multi-dimensional representation of uncertainty.
Radiomics identifies subtle cardiac changes in hypertension.
problem Subtle cardiac alterations in hypertension not captured by conventional imaging.
method Combines feature selection and machine learning for identifying structural and tissue changes.
result Radiomics model detects changes beyond conventional imaging.
A Naive Bayes machine learning approach to risk prediction using censored, time-to-event datastat.ML
Predicting an individual's risk of experiencing a future clinical outcome is a statistical task with important consequences for both practicing clinicians and public health experts. Modern observational databases such as electronic health records (EHRs) provide an alternative to the longitudinal cohort studies traditio…
Hypertension is a major risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease, and end-stage renal disease, and its prevalence is expected to rise dramatically. Effective hypertension management is thus critical. A particular priority is decreasing the incidence of uncontrolled hypertension. Early identification of patients a…
Researchers develop methods to reduce simulation costs for cardiovascular modeling.
problem High computational cost of high-fidelity simulations in cardiovascular modeling.
method Use low-fidelity approximations, neural networks, and normalizing flows to construct surrogates.
result Validated methods reduce computational cost while maintaining accuracy.
FalconBC improves patient-specific cardiovascular modeling by estimating boundary conditions efficiently.
problem Efficiently estimating boundary conditions in patient-specific cardiovascular models, especially in open-loop models and anatomies with lesions.
method A general amortized inference framework based on probabilistic flow that treats clinical targets and anatomies as conditioning variables.
result Demonstrated on two patient-specific models, FalconBC improves efficiency and accuracy in estimating boundary conditions.
Method predicts NAFLD risk with high accuracy and distribution-free coverage guarantees.
problem Insufficient population-level screening tools for NAFLD.
method Gradient-boosted decision trees with conformal prediction.
result Method achieves AUROC of 0.912 internally and 0.891 externally, superior to other models.
Generative ODE model learns unknown variables in medical systems.
problem Estimating unknown variables in complex medical systems.
method Variational autoencoder incorporating known ODE functions.
result Modeling known-unknowns improves system parameter discovery and extrapolation.
Framework for imputing missing heart data to simulate brain-heart interactions.
problem Lack of multi-modal patient data representing heart and brain processes.
method Probabilistic framework for joint cardiac data imputation and mechanistic model personalization.
result Accurate imputation of missing cardiac features in incomplete datasets.
Counterfactual explanations can be obtained by identifying the smallest change made to a feature vector to qualitatively influence a prediction; for example, from 'loan rejected' to 'awarded' or from 'high risk of cardiovascular disease' to 'low risk'. Previous approaches often emphasized that counterfactuals should be…
Study finds incorporating fairness in healthcare models doesn't improve performance or net benefit.
problem Addressing health inequities in healthcare through algorithmic fairness.
method Empirical case study using models to estimate atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk.
result Incorporating fairness considerations into model training objective does not improve model performance or net benefit.
Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common causes of death in the world. Prevention, knowledge of previous cases in the family, and early detection is the best strategy to reduce this fact. Different machine learning approaches to automatic diagnostic are being proposed to this task. As in most health problems,…
Mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) recording technologies represent a promising tool to fight the ongoing epidemic of cardiovascular diseases, which are responsible for more deaths globally than any other cause. While the ability to monitor one's heart activity at any time in any place is a crucial advantage of such techno…
Paper models treatment effects by clustering patients with distinct survival characteristics.
problem Estimating treatment efficacy in clinical settings with censored outcomes.
method Latent variable approach to model heterogeneous treatment effects.
result The latent structure can mediate base survival rates and reveal actionable phenotypes.
LDDMM stochastic interpolants: an application to domain uncertainty quantification in hemodynamicsstat.ML
Generative model learns shape drift for quantifying domain uncertainty in hemodynamics.
problem Quantifying domain uncertainty in medical image segmentation for biomarker estimation.
method Conditional stochastic interpolant framework based on LDDMM registration.
result Generative model can create random perturbations of shapes for biomarker estimation.
Study reviews machine learning techniques for stress monitoring.
problem Improving accuracy of stress monitoring devices.
method Reviewed machine learning techniques for various stress indicators.
result Choosing the right classifier depends on multiple factors.
DWTS uses observational data to improve clinical trial efficiency.
problem Lack of definitive conclusions from randomized clinical trials due to insufficient patient cohorts and confounding biases.
method DWTS combines observational data with randomized clinical trials using Doubly Debiased LASSO (DDL) to identify reliable covariates.
result DWTS reduces cumulative regret in clinical trials compared to standard methods.
Proposes improved classification via transfer learning with regularized linear discriminant analysis.
problem High dimensionality and small sample sizes lead to poor classification performance.
method Regularized random-effects linear discriminant analysis, combining ridge estimates from target and source models.
result Explicit derivation of asymptotic weights and classification error rates in high-dimensional settings.
Clinical prognostic models derived from largescale healthcare data can inform critical diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. To enable off-theshelf usage of machine learning (ML) in prognostic research, we developed AUTOPROGNOSIS: a system for automating the design of predictive modeling pipelines tailored for clinical…
A new method for sampling from posterior distributions in Bayesian inverse problems.
problem Sampling from posterior distributions in Bayesian inverse problems is challenging due to intractable terms.
method Proposes a novel approach that decomposes the transitions, allowing a trade-off between complexity of guidance term and prior transitions.
result Validated through experiments on various inverse problems, including challenging cases with latent diffusion models as priors.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the global leading cause of death. A strong risk factor for CVD events is the amount of coronary artery calcium (CAC). To meet demands of the increasing interest in quantification of CAC, i.e. coronary calcium scoring, especially as an unrequested finding for screening and research, auto…
Participants enrolled into randomized controlled trials (RCTs) often do not reflect real-world populations. Previous research in how best to translate RCT results to target populations has focused on weighting RCT data to look like the target data. Simulation work, however, has suggested that an outcome model approach …
New methods improve subgroup analysis in trials with limited data.
problem Limited sample sizes in subgroup analyses of randomized controlled trials.
method Two TMLEs that borrow information from non-subgroup participants.
result Improved precision in subgroup-specific treatment effect estimates.
Survival Prediction of Heart Failure Patients using Stacked Ensemble Machine Learning Algorithmcs.LG
Study predicts heart failure patient survival using stacked ensemble ML.
problem Predicting survival of heart failure patients.
method Collect and analyze patient data, apply SMOTE, use K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means clustering, Random Forest, XGBoost, Decision Tree, and propose a stacked ensemble model.
result Supervised ML algorithms outperform unsupervised models, achieving high accuracy and F1 score.
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 …
Falls prevention, especially in older people, becomes an increasingly important topic in the times of aging societies. In this work, we present Gated Recurrent Unit-based neural networks models designed for predicting falls (syncope). The cardiovascular systems signals used in the study come from Gravitational Physiolo…
After admission to emergency department (ED), patients with critical illnesses are transferred to intensive care unit (ICU) due to unexpected clinical deterioration occurrence. Identifying such unplanned ICU transfers is urgently needed for medical physicians to achieve two-fold goals: improving critical care quality a…
Random shuffle method boosts HF dataset size 10-21 times.
problem Narrow dataset cardinality in HF clinical studies.
method Random shuffle method to enhance dataset size.
result Enhanced HF dataset size 10-21 times.
We study regularized estimation in high-dimensional longitudinal classification problems, using the lasso and fused lasso regularizers. The constructed coefficient estimates are piecewise constant across the time dimension in the longitudinal problem, with adaptively selected change points (break points). We present an…
We propose a method for generating an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal for one cardiac cycle using a variational autoencoder. Using this method we extracted a vector of new 25 features, which in many cases can be interpreted. The generated ECG has quite natural appearance. The low value of the Maximum Mean Discrepancy me…
Advances in computational science offer a principled pipeline for predictive modeling of cardiovascular flows and aspire to provide a valuable tool for monitoring, diagnostics and surgical planning. Such models can be nowadays deployed on large patient-specific topologies of systemic arterial networks and return detail…
25% of people who received a liver transplant will go on to develop diabetes within the next 5 years. These thousands of individuals are at 2-fold higher risk of cardiovascular events, graft loss, infections, as well as lower long-term survival. This is partly due to the medication used during and/or after transplant t…
Control charts have traditionally been used in industrial statistics, but are constantly seeing new areas of application, especially in the age of Industry 4.0. This paper introduces a new method, which is suitable for applications in the healthcare sector, especially for monitoring a health-characteristic of a patient…
Current clinical practice guidelines for managing Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) account for general cardiovascular risk factors. However, they do not present a framework that considers personalized patient-specific characteristics. Using the electronic health records of 21,460 patients, we created data-driven models fo…
G-Net uses deep learning for complex counterfactual outcome prediction.
problem Estimating counterfactual outcomes under dynamic treatment strategies.
method G-Net is a sequential deep learning framework for G-computation.
result G-Net can handle complex temporal data and provide accurate treatment effects.
In this study, we tested the interaction effect of multimodal datasets using a novel method called the kernel method for detecting higher order interactions among biologically relevant mulit-view data. Using a semiparametric method on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), we used a standard mixed-effects linear mo…
Precision disease networks (PDN)q-bio.QM
This paper presents a method for building patient-based networks that we call Precision disease networks, and its uses for predicting medical outcomes. Our methodology consists of building networks, one for each patient or case, that describes the dis-ease evolution of the patient (PDN) and store the networks as a set …