Unified model combines neural networks and dictionary learning for clinical predictions from brain data.
problem Predicting clinical severity from brain imaging data.
method Combines neural networks with dictionary learning to model patient-specific and shared features.
result Unified model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting clinical severity.
Framework predicts clinical severity from rs-fMRI data using network optimization.
problem Predicting clinical severity from rs-fMRI data.
method Joint network optimization framework combining sparse subnetworks and linear regression.
result Framework outperforms standard methods and identifies clinically relevant ASD networks.
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.
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.
Predictive models identify patients at risk of severe COVID-19.
problem Identifying patients at risk of severe COVID-19 to ease healthcare strain.
method Machine learning on routinely collected clinical data.
result Models predict positive SARS-CoV-2 tests, hospitalizations, and critical care with high accuracy.
Study develops models to predict severe COVID-19 progression.
problem Identifying high-risk individuals for severe COVID-19.
method Developed survival models using EHR data, learning clinical concepts to improve accuracy.
result Learned clinical concepts improve model performance, boosting C-index to 0.858.
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.
New dataset from clinicians improves sepsis prediction models.
problem Circularity in previous sepsis prediction models.
method Developed an independent dataset from clinical judgments, avoiding circularity.
result Achieved state-of-the-art AUROC scores.
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…
In healthcare, patient risk stratification models are often learned using time-series data extracted from electronic health records. When extracting data for a clinical prediction task, several formulations exist, depending on how one chooses the time of prediction and the prediction horizon. In this paper, we show how…
Deep learning predicts heart failure readmission from clinical notes.
problem Predicting and preventing heart failure readmission.
method Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) trained on clinical notes.
result Deep learning models outperform traditional machine learning methods in readmission prediction.
The problem of missing values in multivariable time series is a key challenge in many applications such as clinical data mining. Although many imputation methods show their effectiveness in many applications, few of them are designed to accommodate clinical multivariable time series. In this work, we propose a multiple…
Enhances generative model for clinical data privacy and accuracy.
problem Data privacy in electronic patient records.
method Improves a time-series generative model with privacy safeguards.
result DP-TimeGAN achieves a mean authenticity of 0.778 on the CKD dataset.
New method targets relative risk heterogeneity in clinical trials.
problem Identifying treatment effects across subgroups with absolute risk differences.
method Modified causal forests using a novel node-splitting procedure based on relative risk.
result Relative risk causal forests can capture heterogeneity not detected by absolute risk methods.
Scalable methods integrate multiview data for clinical outcomes.
problem Jointly associate and predict outcomes from multiple data sources.
method Randomized Fourier bases for nonlinear mappings, view-independent low-dimensional representations.
result Identified molecular signatures for COVID-19 status and severity.
Study investigates XAI methods in clinical gait analysis.
problem Limited understanding of machine learning models in healthcare.
method XAI methods, specifically Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP), to explain ML predictions.
result Explanations from LRP show promising statistical and clinical relevance.
We develop a multi-task convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify multiple diagnoses from 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) using a dataset comprised of over 40,000 ECGs, with labels derived from cardiologist clinical interpretations. Since many clinically important classes can occur in low frequencies, approaches…
AdaCare learns health status from biomarkers across multiple time scales.
problem Lack of explicit extraction of historical biomarker variation and adaptability to diverse patient conditions.
method Scale-adaptive feature extraction and recalibration for interpretability.
result AdaCare achieves state-of-the-art prediction accuracy and provides interpretable results.
System predicts respiratory failure up to 8 hours early.
problem Early detection of respiratory failure in ICU patients.
method Machine learning on ICU patient monitoring data.
result System outperforms traditional clinical decision-making.
Copula-based fusion improves breast cancer risk stratification.
problem Combining clinical and genomic risk scores using simple rules fails to capture their joint relationship.
method Used copulas to model the joint relationship between clinical and genomic risk scores.
result Copula-based fusion improves risk stratification, identifying subgroups with the worst prognosis.
Study predicts antimicrobial resistance in ICU patients quickly.
problem Delayed AMR testing in ICU leads to suboptimal treatment.
method Developed predictive models using clinical and microbiological data.
result Machine learning models predict AMR with higher accuracy than naive model.
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.
Hidden stratification causes machine learning models to fail on rare but important patient subgroups.
problem Machine learning models fail on rare patient subgroups not identified during training or testing.
method Assessed techniques for measuring and describing hidden stratification effects on multiple medical imaging datasets.
result Evidence of hidden stratification leading to over 20% performance differences on clinically important subsets.
Study evaluates deep learning methods for dermatology, finding they perform poorly under non-ideal conditions.
problem Lack of robustness of deep learning methods in dermatology under real-world conditions.
method Simulated non-ideal conditions on user-submitted dermatology images.
result Deep learning methods show significant drop in accuracy and prediction changes under non-ideal conditions.
Study examines impact of fairness penalties on clinical risk prediction models.
problem Widespread health disparities in machine learning-guided clinical decision-making.
method Empirical study across multiple databases, outcomes, and sensitive attributes.
result Penalizing fairness violations nearly universally degrades model performance and fairness metrics.
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.
ZiMM model predicts long-term blurry relapses from non-clinical claims data.
problem Predicting long-term blurry relapses after medical acts.
method Introduces ZiMM (Zero-inflated Mixture of Multinomial distributions) and a deep-learning architecture (ZiMM Encoder-Decoder) to learn from sparse, irregular patterns in claims data.
result ZiMM ED improves predictions over various baselines, including non-deep learning and deep-learning approaches.
Deep neural networks have shown promising results for various clinical prediction tasks such as diagnosis, mortality prediction, predicting duration of stay in hospital, etc. However, training deep networks -- such as those based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) -- requires large labeled data, high computational res…
With widespread adoption of electronic health records, there is an increased emphasis for predictive models that can effectively deal with clinical time-series data. Powered by Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architectures with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) units, deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art resu…
The paper proposes a method to predict the performance of data-driven algorithms using surrogate models.
problem Improving the performance prediction of data-driven knowledge discovery algorithms.
method Surrogate-assisted performance prediction using evolutionary modeling of clinical pathways.
result The proposed approach provides interpretable prediction of algorithm performance and quality.
In this work we explored building automatic speech recognition models for transcribing doctor patient conversation. We collected a large scale dataset of clinical conversations (14,000 hr), designed the task to represent the real word scenario, and explored several alignment approaches to iteratively improve data qua…
Framework integrates brain connectivity data for clinical predictions.
problem Predicting clinical outcomes from brain connectivity data.
method Structurally-regularized Dynamic Dictionary Learning (sr-DDL) and LSTM-ANN block.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in clinical outcome prediction.
Determining the optimal initial dose for warfarin is a critically important task. Several factors have an impact on the therapeutic dose for individual patients, such as patients' physical attributes (Age, Height, etc.), medication profile, co-morbidities, and metabolic genotypes (CYP2C9 and VKORC1). These wide range f…
In this work, we consider the problem of predicting the course of a progressive disease, such as cancer or Alzheimer's. Progressive diseases often start with mild symptoms that might precede a diagnosis, and each patient follows their own trajectory. Patient trajectories exhibit wild variability, which can be associate…
DDGM generates realistic ECG signals for clinical use.
problem Generating accurate ECG signals from noisy data.
method Bayesian ECG reconstruction using DDGM trained on healthy ECG data.
result DDGM successfully generates realistic ECG signals for clinical applications.
Deep learning models (aka Deep Neural Networks) have revolutionized many fields including computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and is being increasingly used in clinical healthcare applications. However, few works exist which have benchmarked the performance of the deep learning models with…
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.
Transformers improve Alzheimer's disease progression prediction by accounting for irregular biomarker histories.
problem Difficult prediction of medium-horizon Alzheimer's disease progression due to tied clinical scores and irregular biomarker observations.
method Developed a residual gap-aware transformer that combines statistical reference with transformer-based residual learning.
result The proposed model reduces mean error and improves prediction-observation correlation compared to baseline models.
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.
Deep IDA integrates multi-view data to classify COVID-19 severity, identifying molecular signatures.
problem Understanding the complexity of COVID-19 severity from multi-view clinical and molecular data.
method Deep IDA learns nonlinear projections to maximize view associations and class separations, with feature ranking.
result Deep IDA outperforms other methods in classifying COVID-19 severity and identifies interpretable molecular signatures.
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.
Large vessel occlusion (LVO) plays an important role in the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. Identifying LVO of patients in the early stage on admission would significantly lower the probabilities of suffering from severe effects due to stroke or even save their lives. In this paper, we utilized both structural and …
Teaches reproducible research to medical students and postgrads.
problem Lack of reproducibility in medical research practices.
method Designed and delivered a lecture series on reproducible research.
result Encountered practical obstacles in reproducing a published analysis.
Deep learning with medical data often requires larger samples sizes than are available at single providers. While data sharing among institutions is desirable to train more accurate and sophisticated models, it can lead to severe privacy concerns due the sensitive nature of the data. This problem has motivated a number…
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.
Deep learning model creates patient representations for scalable EHR-based stratification.
problem Challenges in summarizing and representing patient data from EHRs prevent scalable stratification analysis.
method Unsupervised framework based on deep learning (ConvAE) using word embeddings, CNNs, and autoencoders.
result ConvAE significantly outperformed baselines in clustering diverse patient cohorts, identifying clinically relevant subtypes.
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.
Development of interpretable machine learning models for clinical healthcare applications has the potential of changing the way we understand, treat, and ultimately cure, diseases and disorders in many areas of medicine. These models can serve not only as sources of predictions and estimates, but also as discovery tool…