Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Computer systems can assist in melanoma detection, but are not widespread in clinical practice. In 2016, an open challenge in classification of dermoscopic images of skin lesions was announced. A training set of 900 images with corresponding class labels and semi-automatic…
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Discovering Inductive Bias with Gibbs Priors: A Diagnostic Tool for Approximate Bayesian Inferencestat.ML
New diagnostic tool for assessing approximate Bayesian inference.
problem Assessing the trustworthiness of approximate Bayesian inference.
method Reframe the problem in terms of incompatible conditional distributions and use Gibbs priors.
result The diagnostic tool can discover the inductive bias in various Bayesian models and approximations.
The paper analyzes numerical instability in variational flows and proposes a diagnostic method.
problem Numerical instability in variational flows affects sampling, density evaluation, and ELBO estimation.
method Treated variational flows as dynamical systems, used shadowing theory for theoretical guarantees, and developed a diagnostic procedure.
result Despite numerical instability, results from variational flows can be accurate enough for practical applications.
Supervised topic models can help clinical researchers find interpretable cooccurence patterns in count data that are relevant for diagnostics. However, standard formulations of supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation have two problems. First, when documents have many more words than labels, the influence of the labels w…
Machine learning improves detection of Brugada Syndrome from ECGs.
problem Detecting Brugada Syndrome (BrS) from ECGs is challenging due to limited diagnostic criteria.
method Pipeline that reads and processes scanned ECG images, uses LSTM classifier to diagnose.
result The proposed pipeline distinguishes between ECG types and diagnoses BrS with high accuracy.
Online learning improves dengue fever detection with minimal training data.
problem Improving dengue fever detection accuracy with limited training data.
method Online learning approach for incremental learning from patient symptoms and diagnostic investigations.
result The proposed model effectively identifies patients with high likelihood of dengue disease.
There is a growing concern in recent years over the potential formation of bubbles in the Chinese real estate market. This paper aims to conduct a series of bubble diagnostic analysis over nine representative Chinese cities from two aspects. First, we investigate whether the prices had been significantly deviating from…
Study develops a diagnostic tool for rare diseases using reinforcement learning.
problem Minimize medical tests while reducing diagnostic uncertainty for rare diseases.
method Investigated reinforcement learning algorithms, combined expert knowledge with clinical data, integrated ontological information.
result Demonstrated a feasible decision support tool for rare diseases.
Applying machine learning in the health care domain has shown promising results in recent years. Interpretable outputs from learning algorithms are desirable for decision making by health care personnel. In this work, we explore the possibility of utilizing causal relationships to refine diagnostic prediction. We focus…
Establishes statistical and computational bounds for influence diagnostics.
problem Identifying influential datapoints or subsets in machine learning models.
method Finite-sample statistical bounds and computational complexity for influence functions and approximate maximum influence perturbations.
result Established statistical and computational guarantees for influence diagnostics.
The article explains how to estimate confusion matrices for classifiers using unlabeled data.
problem Estimating sensitivity and specificity of binary medical diagnostic tests without gold standard tests.
method Modifying diagnostic test solutions to estimate confusion matrices for classifiers on unlabeled data.
result The approach can be used to estimate accuracy statistics for supervised or unsupervised binary classifiers on unlabeled data.
AI enhances cancer diagnostics using spectroscopy.
problem Early and accurate cancer diagnosis.
method Combining AI with spectroscopy-based techniques.
result AI improves cancer diagnostics speed and safety.
In order to investigate the breast cancer prediction problem on the aging population with the grades of DCIS, we conduct a tree augmented naive Bayesian network experiment trained and tested on a large clinical dataset including consecutive diagnostic mammography examinations, consequent biopsy outcomes and related can…
Study finds AI can predict diverse cardiac and non-cardiac diagnoses from a single ECG.
problem Narrow focus of ECG analysis models for diverse medical conditions.
method Exploratory study using a single AI model to predict multiple ICD codes.
result Model achieved AUROC scores > 0.8 for 253 cardiac and 172 non-cardiac diagnoses.
An Easy to Interpret Diagnostic for Approximate Inference: Symmetric Divergence Over Simulationscs.LG
Paper introduces a diagnostic for approximate inference methods.
problem Estimating errors in probabilistic inference algorithms, especially for approximate methods.
method Repeatedly simulate datasets from the prior and perform inference on each, estimating a symmetric KL-divergence.
result A diagnostic for approximate inference methods can be estimated using symmetric KL-divergence.
Machine learning augmented diagnostic testing to identify sources of variability in test performancecs.LG
Machine learning improves diagnostic test accuracy for bovine tuberculosis.
problem Improving diagnostic test sensitivity for bovine tuberculosis.
method Machine learning to assess risk landscapes and predict infection.
result Test sensitivity improved, detecting 240 more infected herds per year.
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.
Bias in training data affects diagnostic algorithms' performance.
problem Bias in training data leads to biased predictions in diagnostic algorithms.
method Survey of MICCAI 2018 proceedings, analysis of a skin lesions dataset, adversarial training setup.
result Classifier performance varies significantly between subgroups based on age and sex.
Graph-based approach repairs programs from diagnostic feedback.
problem Learning to repair programs from limited labeled data and compiler error messages.
method Introduces program-feedback graph and graph neural network for reasoning, and self-supervised learning with unlabeled programs.
result DrRepair significantly outperforms prior work, achieving high repair rates.
Paper proposes an integrated M&D approach for large multistream data.
problem Inability to progress in monitoring and diagnostics due to high-dimensionality and volume of multistream data.
method Adaptive Principal Component monitoring (APC) and Principal Component Signal Recovery (PCSR).
result The integrated M&D approach enables early detection and streamlined SPC.
Proposes a new framework for evaluating diagnostic models with multiple co-primary endpoints.
problem Overoptimistic assessments of predictive performance in automated medical testing devices.
method Multiple testing framework for diagnostic accuracy studies with co-primary endpoints, using a parametric simultaneous test procedure and Bayesian approach to determine optimal number of models.
result Our approach leads to a better final diagnostic model and increased statistical power.
The paper analyzes convergence in SGD with momentum and proposes a diagnostic test.
problem Detecting convergence in stochastic gradient descent with momentum.
method Analyzes the transient and stationary phases of SGD with momentum, constructs a statistical diagnostic test.
result The proposed diagnostic test effectively detects convergence in the stationary phase of SGD with momentum.
Paper proposes a coupling-based diagnostic for SGD stepsize optimization.
problem Optimizing stepsize for SGD convergence.
method Coupling-based convergence diagnostic for monitoring stationarity.
result Proposed stepsize scheme achieves superior performance across convex and non-convex problems.
Framework for monitoring ML model performance in production without labels.
problem Monitoring real-time prediction quality of ML models in production without labels.
method ML Health framework using diagnostic methods to generate alerts for further investigation.
result The method outperforms standard distance metrics at detecting issues with mismatched data sets.
Trustworthy Predictive Distributions for Tail Events with Semiparametric Diagnostic Transport Mapsstat.ML
Paper improves predictive distributions for rare events using a simple framework.
problem Local miscalibration of predictive distributions for rare events.
method Semiparametric diagnostic transport maps to correct tail probabilities.
result Semiparametric maps improve predictions for severe weather hazards.
TADDAA improves accuracy diagnostics for variational approximations.
problem Challenges in evaluating the accuracy of variational approximations.
method Uses many short parallel MCMC chains to obtain lower bounds on the error of each posterior functional of interest.
result Validates the practical utility and computational efficiency of TADDAA on various models.
Proposes a diagnostic method to evaluate factor models using cap-axis integrals.
problem Improving factor model evaluation in low-dimensional spaces.
method Lifts pricing errors into a bridge-alpha curve along the market-capitalization rank axis.
result The cap-axis norm is distinct from Sharpe gain and size exposure.
Proposes a diagnostic method to evaluate factor models using cap-axis integrals.
problem Improving factor model evaluation for low-dimensional models.
method Lifts pricing errors into a bridge-alpha curve along the market-capitalization rank axis.
result The cap-axis norm is distinct from Sharpe gain and size exposure.
The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a very useful tool for analyzing the diagnostic/classification power of instruments/classification schemes as long as a binary-scale gold standard is available. When the gold standard is continuous and there is no confirmative threshold, ROC curve becomes less useful…
Language models fail to process hallucinated responses, and this study diagnoses the failure.
problem Language models fail to process hallucinated responses, leading to over-concentration or diffuse attention.
method The study uses forced scoring of benchmark-labeled responses to compute attention shapes and analyze the symmetric component of the degree-normalized attention operator.
result The study proves that every transpose-invariant spectral diagnostic of the attention operator is orientation-blind and bounds the sensitivity of any Lipschitz diagnostic by the asymmetry coefficient \(G\).
Distillation and Interpretability of Ensemble Forecasts of ENSO Phase using Entropic Learningphysics.comp-ph
Paper distills ensemble ENSO forecasts into simpler models for better diagnostics.
problem Interpreting complex ensemble ENSO forecasts.
method Aggregates eSPA ensemble members that correctly predict ENSO phase.
result Compact distilled models maintain forecast performance and enable diagnostics.
This work improves diffusion models by estimating the optimal loss value for better training diagnostics.
problem The optimal loss value of diffusion models is unknown and not indicative of absolute data-fitting quality.
method Derive the optimal loss in closed form and develop effective estimators, including a stochastic variant.
result Unlocking the optimal loss as a metric for diagnosing training quality of diffusion models.
Interpretable deep learning is a fundamental building block towards safer AI, especially when the deployment possibilities of deep learning-based computer-aided medical diagnostic systems are so eminent. However, without a computational formulation of black-box interpretation, general interpretability research rely hea…
Online symptom checkers have significant potential to improve patient care, however their reliability and accuracy remain variable. We hypothesised that an artificial intelligence (AI) powered triage and diagnostic system would compare favourably with human doctors with respect to triage and diagnostic accuracy. We per…
Estimating Uncertainty and Interpretability in Deep Learning for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Detectioneess.IV
Bayesian CNN estimates uncertainty in COVID-19 detection.
problem Uncertainty in deep learning predictions for medical diagnosis.
method Drop-weight based Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks (BCNN).
result Uncertainty correlates with prediction accuracy.
Reducing ICD-10 code granularity improves cost model accuracy and stability.
problem High-dimensional regression with ICD-10 codes leads to unstable coefficient estimates.
method Log-linear analytics approach to cost model regularization through diagnostic code merging.
result Reducing ICD-10 code granularity from 7 characters to 6 or fewer improves model interpretability and consistency.
An Adaptive Oversampling Learning Method for Class-Imbalanced Fault Diagnostics and Prognosticscs.LG
A new method improves fault diagnostics and prognostics for class-imbalanced data.
problem Class imbalance in industrial fault diagnostics and prognostics.
method EWMOTE: EM-based Weighted Minority Oversampling TEchnique.
result EWMOTE achieves better performance on binary and multi-class imbalance learning tasks.
The paper introduces diagnostic transport maps to improve the reliability of rare event predictions.
problem Improper calibration of predictive distributions, especially for rare events.
method Diagnostic transport maps to adjust base model's probabilities for better calibration.
result Diagnostic transport maps improve predictive performance for rare events, including 24-hour rapid intensity change.
Develops a diagnostic framework for interest rate model calibration, showing equivalence to Weighted Least Squares and revealing boundary-dominated leverage and local parameter instability.
problem Calibration of stochastic interest rate models
method Diagnostic framework using non-linear regression and analytical tractability of At-The-Money caps
result Reveals boundary-dominated leverage and local parameter instability
New diagnostics detect variability in individual risk estimates from machine learning models in healthcare.
problem Variability in individual risk estimates from machine learning models in healthcare, leading to unreliable treatment decisions.
method Proposed evaluation framework using empirical prediction interval width and empirical decision flip rate diagnostics.
result Randomness in optimization and initialization can lead to substantial individual-level variability in risk estimates, affecting clinical decisions.
Deep Learning model diagnoses four lymphoma categories with high accuracy.
problem Automated detection of lymphoma categories using digital pathology images.
method Convolutional neural network algorithm trained on 128 cases of lymph node images.
result Excellent diagnostic accuracy (95% image-by-image, 10% set-by-set).
The paper breaks down AUC into cluster-level components for better model diagnostics.
problem Global AUC masks weaknesses in specific subpopulations, leading to financial or operational risks.
method Formal decomposition of AUC into intra- and inter-cluster components, comparing with other performance metrics.
result Allows practitioners to evaluate and diagnose model performance within and across clusters.
The paper investigates AI robustness through experiments and statistical analysis.
problem Inaccurate AI predictions can lead to safety and adoption issues.
method Design of experiments framework to study AI classification robustness.
result AI algorithms' robustness is influenced by various factors.
Proposes FACT, a diagnostic for understanding group fairness trade-offs.
problem Group fairness notions often conflict with each other, requiring a cost in model performance.
method Characterizes trade-offs via the fairness-confusion tensor and optimizes accuracy and fairness objectives.
result Demonstrates the use of FACT on synthetic and real datasets to understand accuracy-fairness trade-offs.
Unwrapping The Black Box of Deep ReLU Networks: Interpretability, Diagnostics, and Simplificationcs.LG
This paper simplifies deep ReLU networks into local linear models for better interpretability.
problem Limited transparency and interpretability of deep neural networks, especially ReLU networks.
method Local linear representation and equivalent set of local linear models (LLMs).
result Simplified deep ReLU networks for better interpretability and diagnostics.
Deep convolutional neural networks for multi-scale time-series classification and application to disruption prediction in fusion devicesphysics.plasm-ph
Deep CNN predicts disruptions in fusion plasmas with high accuracy.
problem Predicting plasma events in fusion devices with multi-scale, multi-physics characteristics.
method Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) with dilated convolutions trained on ECEi diagnostic data.
result Deep CNN achieves an F1-score of ~91% on disruption prediction.
Proposes a new method for likelihood-to-evidence ratio estimation.
problem Inherent bias in multiclass ratio estimation framework.
method Contrastive Neural Ratio Estimation (C-NeR) framework.
result C-NeR framework removes bias and improves diagnostic reliability.
Paper presents a light-weight CNN model for Parkinson's disease diagnosis.
problem Diagnosing Parkinson's disease efficiently and accurately.
method A light-weight CNN model cascading to LSTM for time-series signals.
result The model achieves high-quality results with fewer parameters and operations.