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48 results for diagnostic testing

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.

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.

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.

The paper introduces a diagnostic method to detect grokking transitions in models before test accuracy improves.

problem Detecting the transition from training to generalization in machine learning models.
method Summarize task-dependent observables as empirical distributions, map them to Wasserstein/quantile coordinates, and analyze using Hankel dynamic mode decomposition.
result The diagnostic method achieves AUROC \(\approx\) 0.93 for grokking-vs-non-grokking discrimination at the run level.

Paper proposes machine learning model for early Alzheimer's diagnosis.

problem Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.
method Machine learning models, demographic, biomarker, and cognitive test data.
result 90% accuracy and 87% accuracy in predicting Alzheimer's development.

Computer vision model automates residual plot assessment for diagnosing model assumptions.

problem Automating residual plot assessment for model diagnostics.
method Trains a computer vision model to predict disparity between residual distributions and reference distributions using Kullback-Leibler divergence.
result Computer vision model is less sensitive to non-linearity but more sensitive than human judgment and conventional tests.

Optimizes classification algorithms with bounds on error rates.

problem Bounding uncertainties in classifier outputs for diagnostic testing.
method Set-theoretic and probabilistic arguments to derive uniform error bounds.
result Optimal partition minimizes the largest Gershgorin radius of the confusion matrix.

Paper presents a probabilistic diagnostic model for identifying and treating supervised learning degradation issues.

problem Degradation problems in supervised learning, including class imbalance, overlapping, small-disjuncts, noisy labels, and sparseness.
method Develops a novel probabilistic diagnostic model to identify and treat degradation issues in supervised learning.
result Early and correct diagnosis of degradation issues allows for selecting appropriate remediation treatments and unbiased performance metrics.

This study connects prevalence and machine learning for diagnostic testing.

problem Uncertainty quantification in machine learning for diagnostic tests.
method Developed a numerical homotopy algorithm to estimate classification boundaries and quantify uncertainty.
result The proposed method stabilizes uncertainty quantification in machine learning for diagnostic tests.

New bidirectional model predicts magnetohydrodynamics fields and estimates uncertainty.

problem Predicting multiple fields in magnetohydrodynamics with uncertainty.
method Bidirectional autoregressive latent diffusion approach.
result Model can estimate uncertainty without ground truth using self-supervised consistency.

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…

2018-01-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Study integrates causal inference and temporal complexity measures to analyze mental health symptoms.

problem Examining how individual symptom trajectories reveal diagnostic patterns in mental disorders.
method Causal inference, graph analysis, temporal complexity measures, machine learning.
result 91% accuracy in diagnosing symptom dynamics, highlighting disorder-specific causal mechanisms.

Study proposes a statistical test for Vision Transformer's attention mechanisms.

problem ViT's attention mechanisms may focus on irrelevant regions, leading to unreliable evidence.
method Selective inference framework to quantify statistical significance of attentions as p-values.
result Proposed method enables reliable quantification of false positive detection probability of attentions.

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 \(G\).

Machine learning promises to revolutionize clinical decision making and diagnosis. In medical diagnosis a doctor aims to explain a patient's symptoms by determining the diseases \emph{causing} them. However, existing diagnostic algorithms are purely associative, identifying diseases that are strongly correlated with a …

2019-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Simplifies decision-making during medical exams with cost-efficient feature acquisition.

problem Guiding physicians during examination acquisition for accurate and efficient diagnosis.
method Dropout at input layer and integrated gradients at test-time for dynamic feature importance.
result More cost- and feature-efficient than prior approaches, achieving higher overall accuracy.

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.

Machine learning model diagnoses COVID-19 from routine blood tests.

problem Difficulty in diagnosing COVID-19 due to inconsistent blood parameter changes.
method Constructed a machine learning model using 5,333 patients with various infections and 160 COVID-19-positive patients.
result Cross-validated AUC of 0.97, sensitivity of 81.9%, specificity of 97.9%.

A new framework bridges classical and machine learning methods for reliable inference from complex models.

problem Intractable likelihood functions in complex systems make classical statistics ineffective for likelihood-free inference.
method Likelihood-Free Frequentist Inference (LF2I) framework that combines classical statistics and machine learning.
result Valid confidence sets with near finite-sample validity can be constructed for any parameter value.

We speed up Gaussian process cross-validation calculations and improve model diagnostics.

problem Efficiently calculating cross-validation residuals and their covariances in Gaussian processes.
method Generalized fast Gaussian process leave-one-out formulae to multiple-fold cross-validation, highlighting covariance structures.
result Correcting for residual covariances in cross-validation improves back to Maximum Likelihood Estimation.

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…

2017-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Background and Purpose: Biopsy is the main determinants of glioma clinical management, but require invasive sampling that fail to detect relevant features because of tumor heterogeneity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of a voxel-wise, multiparametric MRI radiomic method to predict features and d…

2019-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Discriminative neural networks address class imbalance in coronary heart disease risk analysis.

problem Class imbalance in medical test data, especially in binary classification problems.
method Use of discriminative neural networks and contrastive loss with a Siamese network structure.
result The method effectively handles class imbalance, improving predictive models for coronary heart disease risk.

BoC probe assesses neural network confidence coherence, revealing architecture-specific uncertainty.

problem Poor calibration and OOD detection in neural networks.
method Bag-of-Coins (BoC) probe compares softmax confidence to pairwise dominance probabilities.
result BoC reveals clear ID/OOD separation for some architectures but not others.

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.

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.

Cost-efficient feature selection for multi-label classification in medicine.

problem Feature selection in multi-label classification with cost constraints.
method Sequential feature selection maximizing conditional mutual information, followed by cost-free feature selection using shadow features.
result The method effectively reduces prediction costs in medical applications.