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48 results for clinical decision making

Novel IRL method identifies suboptimal medical decisions in ICU data.

problem Identifying suboptimal medical decisions in clinical settings.
method Incorporates Inverse Reinforcement Learning with a pruning step to identify and remove suboptimal actions.
result Pruning step effectively identifies clinical priorities and values from suboptimal data.

Pairwise ranking aligns subjective clinical evaluations with objective indicators.

problem Aligning subjective clinical evaluations with objective indicators for improved diagnosis.
method Pairwise ranking methods to align subjective evaluations with objective indicators.
result The resulting score improves classification accuracy and provides a nuanced severity assessment.

The paper integrates AI and expert knowledge to optimize radiotherapy decisions.

problem Optimizing radiation dose planning considering patient-specific information.
method Integrating Gaussian process models with deep neural networks to quantify uncertainty.
result Improves AI model performance and guides clinical decision making.

Framework improves health by planning actionable treatment processes.

problem Developing objective treatment processes in clinical settings.
method Surrogate Bayesian model combined with ML for personalized health improvement.
result Computed treatment processes are actionable and consistent with clinical knowledge.

FRESH combines patient-level and aggregate-level data for better clinical decision making.

problem Combining patient-level and aggregate-level data for clinical decision making.
method FRESH method that re-calibrates a patient-level model to match specified aggregate statistics.
result Unified data-efficient model for clinical decision making.

Unified framework for human-like decision making in various sequential tasks.

problem Real-life decision-making involves diverse strategies leading to similar outcomes.
method Two-stream reward processing mechanism for flexible and unified models.
result Framework unified MAB, CB, and RL with comparable performance.

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.

Machine learning is bringing a paradigm shift to healthcare by changing the process of disease diagnosis and prognosis in clinics and hospitals. This development equips doctors and medical staff with tools to evaluate their hypotheses and hence make more precise decisions. Although most current research in the literatu…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid Bayesian-conformal framework improves uncertainty quantification in healthcare predictions.

problem Jointly satisfying distribution-free coverage guarantees and risk-adaptive precision in clinical decision-making.
method Integrates Bayesian hierarchical random forests with group-aware conformal calibration, using posterior uncertainties to weight conformity scores.
result Achieves target coverage (94.3% vs 95% target) with adaptive precision, 21% narrower intervals for low-uncertainty cases.

Method predicts biomarker trajectories with uncertainty bands for Alzheimer's disease.

problem Uncertainty in biomarker predictions poses risks in clinical deployment.
method Conformal prediction for randomly-timed biomarker trajectories.
result Conformal bands achieve desired coverage and are tighter than baseline.

Optimizes treatment duration to maximize quality-adjusted lifetime.

problem Balancing risks and benefits in clinical decision making.
method Proposes a weighted estimating equation to adjust for confounding and informative censoring, and a nonparametric estimator for mean counterfactual quality-adjusted lifetime.
result Shows the optimal time for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion in ALS patients.

Dynamic treatment regimes are of growing interest across the clinical sciences as these regimes provide one way to operationalize and thus inform sequential personalized clinical decision making. A dynamic treatment regime is a sequence of decision rules, with a decision rule per stage of clinical intervention; each de…

2010-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

CASCADE improves uncertainty communication in Parkinson's disease medication management.

problem Uncertainty in clinical decision-making for Parkinson's disease patients.
method CASCADE uses a novel conformal prediction framework to adaptively scale prediction intervals based on classification uncertainty.
result CASCADE produces more efficient and robust prediction intervals for Parkinson's disease patients.

CoI framework models clinical feature interactions, revealing temporal dependencies and enhancing transparency.

problem Capturing latent, time-varying dependencies among clinical features in time-series data.
method Chain-of-Influence (CoI) framework constructs an explicit, time-unfolded graph of feature interactions.
result Achieves state-of-the-art predictive performance (AUROC of 0.960 on CKD progression and 0.950 on ICU mortality).

The paper studies how noisy labels impact decision-making in machine learning.

problem The impact of noisy labels on decision-making in machine learning.
method Introducing a notion of regret, studying standard approaches, and estimating individual-level mistakes.
result Standard approaches can lead to unforeseen mistakes for individuals, revealing the need for anticipation.

Review of methods enabling causal predictions under hypothetical interventions.

problem Need for predicting outcomes under hypothetical interventions in decision making.
method Systematic review of methods using causal inference for prediction models.
result Identified 13 methods for causal inference from observational data.

Machine learning aids in diagnosing Parkinson's disease with higher accuracy.

problem Subjectivity in traditional PD diagnosis methods and missed early symptoms.
method Machine learning applied to various data modalities for PD and control group classification.
result Machine learning methods show high potential for improving PD diagnosis.

Method predicts ODX scores for breast cancer patients based on clinical data.

problem Predicting ODX scores for breast cancer patients to aid decision-making.
method Distributional random forest approach using 9 clinico-pathological characteristics.
result Correctly predicted 92% of low risk and 40.2% of high risk patients.

PKB framework boosts genomic data analysis by integrating pathway knowledge.

problem Boosting discovery power and connecting new findings with biological mechanisms in genomic data.
method Pathway-based Kernel Boosting (PKB) framework integrating clinical and pathway information for prediction of various outcomes.
result PKB substantially outperforms other methods in predicting drug response and cancer survival.

AI predicts medical specialty diagnostic choices from EHR records.

problem Predicting timely medical specialty diagnostic workups for patients.
method Ensemble of feed-forward neural networks trained on EHR data.
result Significantly higher accuracy compared to traditional checklists.

Analyzes COVID-19 data to predict mortality, forecast spread, and optimize resource allocation.

problem Challenges in patient triage, treatment, and care management during the pandemic.
method Integrated four-step approach combining descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
result Optimized resource allocation and informed policy decisions.

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.

Estimation of individual treatment effects is commonly used as the basis for contextual decision making in fields such as healthcare, education, and economics. However, it is often sufficient for the decision maker to have estimates of upper and lower bounds on the potential outcomes of decision alternatives to assess …

2019-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

FIGS improves prediction performance while maintaining interpretability, especially in medical domains.

problem Lack of interpretability in machine learning models, particularly in high-stakes domains like medicine.
method Generalizes CART algorithm to grow multiple trees in summation, combining logical rules with addition.
result FIGS achieves state-of-the-art prediction performance and derives interpretable clinical decision instruments (CDIs).

Variable selection for optimal treatment regime in a clinical trial or an observational study is getting more attention. Most existing variable selection techniques focused on selecting variables that are important for prediction, therefore some variables that are poor in prediction but are critical for decision-making…

2014-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Enforcing safety is a key aspect of many problems pertaining to sequential decision making under uncertainty, which require the decisions made at every step to be both informative of the optimal decision and also safe. For example, we value both efficacy and comfort in medical therapy, and efficiency and safety in robo…

2018-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗