Study uses interviews to automatically detect BD and BPD with good accuracy.
problem Challenges in distinguishing BD and BPD from clinical interviews.
method Developed a multi-modal dataset and used a linear classifier with selected features from interviews.
result Different sets of features characterize BD and BPD, providing insights into their differences.
Model detects depression from transcribed interviews using affective language.
problem Detecting depression from transcribed clinical interviews.
method Hierarchical Attention Network with affective conditioning.
result Model achieves state-of-the-art F1 scores in depression detection.
Novel metrics improve machine learning models for ICU patient care.
problem Predicting vital sign trajectories for early detection of adverse events.
method Developed novel performance metrics aligned with clinical contexts, validated on simulated and real datasets, and optimized neural networks using these metrics.
result Neural networks trained with these metrics excel in predicting clinically significant events.
Former physicists share insights on derivatives in interviews.
problem Understanding physics in finance interview questions.
method Interviews with former physicists in finance.
result Compilation of physics-related interview answers.
Method augments CTNs for ICD coding with neural network imputation.
problem Time-consuming manual annotation of CTNs for ICD coding.
method Semi-self-supervised neural network imputation of clinical features.
result Data augmentation improves ICD coding performance significantly.
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a prodromal phase in the progression from normal aging to dementia, especially Alzheimers disease. Even though there is mild cognitive decline in MCI patients, they have normal overall cognition and thus is challenging to distinguish from normal aging. Using transcribed data obtained …
AI-assisted interviews allow respondents to describe experiences naturally, but mapping those accounts into structured survey variables is fallible.
problem Mapping AI-assisted interview responses into structured survey variables is fallible.
method Adaptive Matrix Validation (AMV) is proposed, which involves mapping responses into tabular data and using a small set of structured questions for statistical adjustment.
result The estimator calibrates mapped values using validation answers from other respondents and corrects remaining error with validation answers observed for the target respondent.
Interview study reveals considerations for designing semi-automated bias detection tools.
problem Detecting and mitigating machine learning biases.
method Interview study with 11 machine learning practitioners.
result Four considerations identified for tool design.
Multimodal analysis assesses job interview performance and provides feedback.
problem Assessing candidate performance in interviews for professional roles.
method Multimodal analytical framework using video, audio, and text data.
result The proposed methodology achieved promising results in predicting behavioral cues.
Given a huge set of applicants, how should a firm allocate sequential resume screenings, phone interviews, and in-person site visits? In a tiered interview process, later stages (e.g., in-person visits) are more informative, but also more expensive than earlier stages (e.g., resume screenings). Using accepted hiring mo…
Industry lacks tools to secure ML systems, study finds.
problem Insufficient security tools for ML systems in industry.
method Interviews with 28 organizations to identify gaps.
result Need revised Security Development Lifecycle for ML.
Key features of mental illnesses are reflected in speech. Our research focuses on designing a multimodal deep learning structure that automatically extracts salient features from recorded speech samples for predicting various mental disorders including depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia. We adopt a variety of pre-t…
Study blockchain's impact on primary financial market challenges.
problem Challenges of blockchain in securities issuance and trading.
method Hybrid method combining interviews and surveys.
result Complex due diligence, mismatch, and difficult monitoring are significant challenges.
This work facilitates ensuring fairness of machine learning in the real world by decoupling fairness considerations in compound decisions. In particular, this work studies how fairness propagates through a compound decision-making processes, which we call a pipeline. Prior work in algorithmic fairness only focuses on f…
Based on 46 in-depth interviews with scientists, engineers, and CEOs, this document presents a list of concrete machine research problems, progress on which would directly benefit tech ventures in East Africa.
Young investors, especially students, dominate Indonesian stock exchanges.
problem Investment behavior of young and rookie investors in the stock market.
method Qualitative approach with descriptive analysis and interviews.
result Perception of behavioral control influences investment decisions.
Paper presents algorithm for optimal job selection with dynamic scoring.
problem Optimal job assignment in a sequential selection process with dynamic scores.
method Developed using dynamic programming, with extensions for partial and no-information cases.
result Algorithm allows for optimal job assignment with limited information.
To relieve the pain of manually selecting machine learning algorithms and tuning hyperparameters, automated machine learning (AutoML) methods have been developed to automatically search for good models. Due to the huge model search space, it is impossible to try all models. Users tend to distrust automatic results and …
Procedure verifies if machine learning models assign fixed predictions that preclude access.
problem Models assign fixed predictions that preclude access to credit and employment.
method Model-agnostic recourse verification with reachable sets.
result Models can inadvertently preclude access by assigning fixed predictions.
This thesis evaluates text-based vs audio-based classification of mental health interviews.
problem Classifying psychiatric illness using text-based methods.
method Design and evaluate a text classification network on mental health interviews, using belabBERT.
result Text-based classification is a strong alternative to audio-based methods.
Imagine a large firm with multiple departments that plans a large recruitment. Candidates arrive one-by-one, and for each candidate the firm decides, based on her data (CV, skills, experience, etc), whether to summon her for an interview. The firm wants to recruit the best candidates while minimizing the number of inte…
NFTs raise concerns like scams, racism, and sexism; centralization vs decentralization debate.
problem Concerns and value judgments of stakeholders in NFT market.
method Mixed quantitative and qualitative methods: social media analysis and interviews.
result Identified financial scams, counterfeit NFTs, hacking, and unethical NFTs as major issues.
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.
Improved model predicts ICU readmission and mortality with interpretable results.
problem Lack of clinically interpretable predictions from deep learning models on clinical notes.
method Augmented a convolutional model with an attention mechanism for clinical note prediction.
result Attention mechanism improves prediction performance while providing interpretable results.
These are the lecture notes for an advanced Ph.D. level course I taught in Spring'02 at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. The course primarily focused on an introduction to stochastic calculus and derivative pricing with various stochastic computations recast in the language of path integr…
Paper develops a method for valid inference using language model predictions from verbal autopsy narratives.
problem Valid inference from verbal autopsy narratives for public health decision-making.
method Develops multiPPI++ method for valid inference using NLP techniques for COD prediction.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of multiPPI++ in handling transportability issues and recovering ground truth estimates.
Clinical AI models fail to transfer between sites due to site-specific practices.
problem Clinical AI models perform poorly at new sites.
method Identify and isolate site-specific clinical practices affecting data distribution.
result A potential solution to improve model transferability.
System suggests clinical concepts in real-time for faster note creation.
problem Efficiently creating structured clinical notes with minimal keystrokes.
method Contextual autocompletion using shallow neural networks.
result Reduces keystrokes by 67% in real hospital environments.
We introduce SparseVM, a method that registers clinical-quality 3D MR scans both faster and more accurately than previously possible. Deformable alignment, or registration, of clinical scans is a fundamental task for many clinical neuroscience studies. However, most registration algorithms are designed for high-resolut…
Machine learning aids in clinical prediction tasks.
problem Improving accuracy in clinical predictions.
method Introduction to machine learning concepts and algorithms, followed by practical application to clinical datasets.
result Demonstrated the application of machine learning models to clinical prediction problems.
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.
This essay reviews human observer-based methods employed in shark spotting in Muizenberg Beach. It investigates Machine Learning methods for automated shark detection with the aim of enhancing human observation. A questionnaire and interview were used to collect information about shark spotting, the motivation of the a…
Machine learning predicts patient recruitment for clinical trials.
problem Improving patient recruitment prediction for clinical trials.
method Machine learning methods applied to historical clinical trial data.
result Reduced prediction error compared to current industry standards.
Clinical outcome prediction based on the Electronic Health Record (EHR) plays a crucial role in improving the quality of healthcare. Conventional deep sequential models fail to capture the rich temporal patterns encoded in the longand irregular clinical event sequences. We make the observation that clinical events at a…
With the maturation of metabolomics science and proliferation of biobanks, clinical metabolic profiling is an increasingly opportunistic frontier for advancing translational clinical research. Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) approaches provide exciting opportunity to guide feature selection in agnostic metabolic pr…
New dataset and approach improve skin cancer detection accuracy.
problem Lack of patient clinical information in automated skin cancer detection.
method Introduced a new dataset with clinical images and patient information. Combined clinical data with dermoscopy images using deep learning models.
result Combining clinical data improves skin cancer detection accuracy by around 7%.
A clinical Meta-Dataset from TCGA for multi-task learning.
problem Clinical decision making requires considering multiple factors; current benchmarks lack consistency and variety.
method Developed a Meta-Dataset with 174 tasks from TCGA, using regression and neural networks.
result Demonstrated the feasibility of predicting multiple clinical variables from gene expression data.
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.
Improved negation detection in Dutch clinical texts using machine learning.
problem Extracting negation from clinical text for better model development.
method Comparison of rule-based and machine learning methods (biLSTM, RoBERTa).
result BiLSTM and RoBERTa models outperform rule-based method in F1 score, precision, and recall.
In some speaker recognition scenarios we find conversations recorded simultaneously over multiple channels. That is the case of the interviews in the NIST SRE dataset. To take advantage of that, we propose a modification of the PLDA model that considers two different inter-session variability terms. The first term is t…
Model predicts patient trajectories and interventions from EMR data.
problem Forecasting patient outcomes from EMR data.
method Deep state space generative model capturing latent state dynamics.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on real EMR data.
The paper explores using historical data to improve clinical trial analysis by optimizing covariate weights.
problem Limited covariates in small clinical trials reduce the effectiveness of analysis.
method Leverage historical data to pre-specify covariate weights as a composite covariate.
result A composite covariate improves the cost/benefit ratio and reduces overfitting in small clinical trials.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disease impairing a person's ability to perform day to day activities. The clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease are characterized by heterogeneity in age, disease span, progression rate, impairment of memory and cognitive abilities. Due to these variabilities, …
Study examines biases in clinical word embeddings, revealing performance gaps across groups.
problem Biases in clinical word embeddings leading to performance differences across groups.
method Pretrained BERT models on MIMIC-III, fill-in-the-blank method, fairness evaluation on clinical tasks.
result Classifiers trained from BERT representations exhibit statistically significant differences in performance across groups.
Study improves healthcare time series imputation by considering structured missingness.
problem Structured missingness in clinical data impacts time series imputation models.
method Analysis of different masking strategies on imputation methods using PhysioNet Challenge 2012 dataset.
result Masking choices significantly affect imputation accuracy and clinical prediction.
New method detects biomarker-treatment interactions in clinical trials.
problem Detecting interactions between high-dimensional biomarkers and treatments in randomized trials.
method Two-stage penalized regression screening using ridge regression for multivariate screening.
result Ridge regression screening provides greater power than traditional methods in correlated data.
Improved language model for French clinical reports achieves state-of-the-art performance in medical NLP tasks.
problem Lack of specialized language models for French clinical reports.
method Adapted a general pre-trained language model (CamemBERT) to French clinical reports using a corpus of 21M reports.
result Pretrained and fine-tuned models improved F1-score by 3 percentage points on APMed task.
The recent adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by health care providers has introduced an important source of data that provides detailed and highly specific insights into patient phenotypes over large cohorts. These datasets, in combination with machine learning and statistical approaches, generate new opport…