Modeling disease progression in healthcare administrative databases is complicated by the fact that patients are observed only at irregular intervals when they seek healthcare services. In a longitudinal cohort of 76,888 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we used a continuous-time hidden Markov…
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Clinical researchers use disease progression models to understand patient status and characterize progression patterns from longitudinal health records. One approach for disease progression modeling is to describe patient status using a small number of states that represent distinctive distributions over a set of obser…
Proposes a tool to contrast global vs personalized models in clinical prediction.
Study uses data to analyze COPD patients' impact on hospital systems.
CNNs accurately measure airways and vessels on CT images, improving lung disease diagnosis.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease where early detection benefits the survival rate. COPD can be quantified by classifying patches of computed tomography images, and combining patch labels into an overall diagnosis for the image. As labeled patches are often not available, image labels are p…
New methods improve genetic studies of complex diseases.
HIP method extended to multi-class, Poisson, and Zero-Inflated Poisson outcomes with an R Shiny app.
Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CPA) is a complex lung disease caused by infection with Aspergillus. Computed tomography (CT) images are frequently requested in patients with suspected and established disease, but the radiological signs on CT are difficult to quantify making accurate follow-up challenging. We propose …
New fair regression method improves fairness in chronic kidney disease classification.
Smartphone app diagnoses pulmonary diseases from chest X-rays.
Purpose - Functional bowel diseases, including irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, and chronic diarrhea, are some of the most common diseases seen in clinical practice. Many patients describe a range of triggers for altered bowel consistency and symptoms. However, characterization of the relationship betwee…
Simulation framework assesses ROI of chronic disease adherence and policy timing.
Deep learning improves CVD risk prediction from health records.
Study uses machine learning and survival analysis to predict CKD progression.
Prediction of the future trajectory of a disease is an important challenge for personalized medicine and population health management. However, many complex chronic diseases exhibit large degrees of heterogeneity, and furthermore there is not always a single readily available biomarker to quantify disease severity. Eve…
Novel framework detects CKD in diabetic patients using sparse EHR representations.
WEST uses EHRs and expert cases to improve rare disease phenotyping.
Machine learning predicts obesity causes using genetic and imaging data.
Proposes a new model for predicting chronic conditions over time.
Enhances generative model for clinical data privacy and accuracy.
StageNet improves health risk prediction by integrating disease stage information.
Deep learning predicts drug prescriptions across global health records.
RL algorithms with medical integration improve personalized treatment recommendations.
We study the behavior of a Time-Aware Long Short-Term Memory Autoencoder, a state-of-the-art method, in the context of learning latent representations from irregularly sampled patient data. We identify a key issue in the way such recurrent neural network models are being currently used and show that the solution of the…
Respiratory infections and chronic respiratory diseases impose a heavy health burden worldwide. Coughing is one of the most common symptoms of many such infections, and can be indicative of flare-ups of chronic respiratory diseases. Whether at a clinical or public health level, the capacity to identify bouts of coughin…
A method models continuous-time glucose distributions in children with diabetes.
A Convolutional Neural Network was used to predict kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease from high-resolution digital pathology scans of their kidney biopsies. Kidney biopsies were taken from participants of the NEPTUNE study, a longitudinal cohort study whose goal is to set up infrastructure for obse…
Managing patients with chronic diseases is a major and growing healthcare challenge in several countries. A chronic condition, such as diabetes, is an illness that lasts a long time and does not go away, and often leads to the patient's health gradually getting worse. While recent works involve raw electronic health re…
One primary task of population health analysis is the identification of risk factors that, for some subpopulation, have a significant association with some health condition. Examples include finding lifestyle factors associated with chronic diseases and finding genetic mutations associated with diseases in precision he…
This paper develops explainable treatment policies for RPM using clinical knowledge.
Paper characterizes early-stage dementia signatures from sensor data.
Early detection of preventable diseases is important for better disease management, improved inter-ventions, and more efficient health-care resource allocation. Various machine learning approacheshave been developed to utilize information in Electronic Health Record (EHR) for this task. Majorityof previous attempts, ho…
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial roles in multifarious biological processes associated with human diseases. Identifying potential miRNA-disease associations contributes to understanding the molecular mechanisms of miRNA-related diseases. Most of the existing computational methods mainly focus on predicting whether a miR…
FILTER model uses fusion penalized logistic threshold regression for high-dimensional data with unknown cut points.
Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious condition causing a litany of health problems especially in the pediatric population. However, this chronic condition can be treated if diagnosis is possible. The gold standard for diagnosis is an overnight sleep study, which is often unobtainable by many potentially suffering from …
Anatomical and biophysical modeling of left atrium (LA) and proximal pulmonary veins (PPVs) is important for clinical management of several cardiac diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows qualitative assessment of LA and PPVs through visualization. However, there is a strong need for an advanced image segment…
Celiac Disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the small intestine in genetically predisposed children and adults. Gluten exposure triggers an inflammatory cascade which leads to compromised intestinal barrier function. If this enteropathy is unrecognized, this can lead to anemia, decreased bone densi…
A new algorithm discovers causal factors between T2DM and bone mineral density.
In this paper, the development of a probabilistic network for the diagnosis of acute cardiopulmonary diseases is presented. This paper is a draft version of the article published after peer review in 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201600206). A panel of expert physicians collaborated to specify the qualitative part…
Numerous lung diseases, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), exhibit dilation of the airways. Accurate measurement of dilatation enables assessment of the progression of disease. Unfortunately the combination of image noise and airway bifurcations causes high variability in the profiles of cross-sectional areas…
System converts 3D lung nodule images into embeddings for retrieval.
A typical problem in causal modeling is the instability of model structure learning, i.e., small changes in finite data can result in completely different optimal models. The present work introduces a novel causal modeling algorithm for longitudinal data, that is robust for finite samples based on recent advances in st…
In recent years, besides the medical treatment methods in medical field, Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems which can facilitate the decision making phase of the physician and can detect the disease at an early stage have started to be used frequently. The diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) disease by…
The paper uses geometric methods to classify medical data histograms.
Longitudinal patient data has the potential to improve clinical risk stratification models for disease. However, chronic diseases that progress slowly over time are often heterogeneous in their clinical presentation. Patients may progress through disease stages at varying rates. This leads to pathophysiological misalig…
Characterization of a patient clinical phenotype is central to biomedical informatics. ICD codes, assigned to inpatient encounters by coders, is important for population health and cohort discovery when clinical information is limited. While ICD codes are assigned to patients by professionals trained and certified in c…
Study proposes deep learning techniques to diagnose and differentiate Celiac Disease and Environmental Enteropathy from biopsy images.