Model predicts extubation success in preterm infants.
problem Predicting successful extubation in preterm infants to minimize complications.
method Applied Markov and semi-Markov chain models to analyze respiratory patterns.
result Up to 84% of infants who failed extubation could have been predicted prior to extubation.
Approach predicts extubation readiness with high accuracy.
problem High reintubation rates due to inconsistent extubation readiness prediction.
method Random Forest classifiers trained on undersampled cardiorespiratory variability data.
result 71% of infants who failed extubation were correctly identified.
Study uses semi-Markov models to analyze respiratory patterns of preterm infants before extubation.
problem Analyzing respiratory patterns of preterm infants before and after extubation.
method Developed semi-Markov models to compare respiratory patterns of infants who succeeded extubation and those who required reintubation.
result Semi-Markov models reveal unique similarities and differences between infants who succeeded extubation and those who required reintubation.
Preterm births occur at an alarming rate of 10-15%. Preemies have a higher risk of infant mortality, developmental retardation and long-term disabilities. Predicting preterm birth is difficult, even for the most experienced clinicians. The most well-designed clinical study thus far reaches a modest sensitivity of 18.2-…
Improved preterm prediction using synthetic EHG signals.
problem Prediction bias towards term labor in preterm EHG data.
method Quantifying synthetic samples' effect, optimizing feature weights, and combining activation functions.
result Substantial improvement in prediction precision.
Deep learning predicts preterm birth risk with improved accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in predicting spontaneous preterm deliveries.
method U-Net segmentation network for automatic extraction of cervical length and anterior cervical angle.
result Combined markers reduce false-negative ratio from 30% to 18%
We describe an application of machine learning to the problem of predicting preterm birth. We conduct a secondary analysis on a clinical trial dataset collected by the National In- stitute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) while focusing our attention on predicting different classes of preterm birth. We com…
Wearable smart suit tracks infant movements with high accuracy.
problem Early detection of atypical motor development in infants.
method Developed a multi-sensor smart suit for data collection, trained a deep CNN algorithm for automatic posture and movement classification.
result Setup achieves human equivalent accuracy in infant posture and movement classification.
Paper improves preterm birth prediction using neural networks with noisy labels.
problem Predicting preterm birth from noisy EHR diagnosis codes.
method Developed ALC method to correct label noise in deep learning models.
result Improved prediction performance compared to baseline methods.
Quantile regression is an increasingly important empirical tool in economics and other sciences for analyzing the impact of a set of regressors on the conditional distribution of an outcome. Extremal quantile regression, or quantile regression applied to the tails, is of interest in many economic and financial applicat…
Study predicts infant mortality using birth certificate data.
problem High infant mortality rate in the U.S. and racial/ethnic disparities.
method Classification models trained on birth certificate features.
result Methodology outperforms standard classification methods.
Study shows over-sampling biases prediction results on imbalanced datasets.
problem Over-optimistic prediction results on imbalanced data.
method Applying over-sampling before partitioning training and testing sets.
result Over-sampling causes biased results and reduces predictive performance.
Study uses wearable sensors to predict infant motor development status.
problem Early detection of infant motor development status in high-risk infants.
method Machine learning classification algorithms using day-long inertial movement data from wearable sensors.
result Machine learning can predict infant motor development status from day-long movement data.
Automated GMA using accelerometers detects abnormal infant movements with human-level accuracy.
problem Undetected perinatal stroke leads to lifelong disability.
method Wearable accelerometers and Discriminative Pattern Discovery (DPD) for automated GMA.
result Automated method correctly identifies abnormal movements with human-level accuracy.
Study on mother-infant affect communication using audio recordings.
problem Lack of accurate emotional speech databases for real-life settings.
method Used RAVDESS database and trained a Convolutional Neural Nets model.
result Dominant emotions in mother-infant speech were angry and sad.
The paper uses learned prototypes to explain deep learning models for time-series data.
problem Lack of explainable AI in deep learning models for high-risk decisions.
method Learned prototypes in latent space of deep learning models.
result Prototypes improve classification decisions and provide explainable insights.
Bayesian approach predicts brain-age from EEG sleep states across age.
problem Inconsistent brain-age predictions due to subjective sleep state classification.
method Unified Bayesian Network with Gaussian Mixture Models for EEG sleep states.
result Improved accuracy in brain-age prediction over a wider age range.
Study improves infant cry-based asphyxia diagnosis using transfer learning.
problem Improving accuracy of diagnosing perinatal asphyxia in newborns.
method Neural transfer learning from adult speech to infant cries.
result Transfer learning models are resilient to noise and signal loss.
New model detects crying in real-world settings with improved accuracy.
problem Generalization of cry detection models to real-world environments.
method Evaluated machine learning approaches on a novel dataset of real-world infant crying.
result Improved F1 score of 0.613 for crying event recognition in real-world settings.
Automated method selects eye tracking variables for categorization tasks.
problem Limited duration of infant cooperation and biases in handpicked eye tracking variables.
method Automated selection of eye tracking variables using statistical techniques.
result Same eye tracking variables classify category learners from non-learners in adults and infants with high accuracy.
3D CNN accurately classifies infant neurodevelopmental age from MRI scans.
problem Estimating neurodevelopmental age in infants from MRI data.
method 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D CNN) trained on MRI images of 112 infants.
result 3D CNN achieves 99% sensitivity and 98.3% specificity in age classification.
Model captures sleep patterns in infant data.
problem Infant sleep data analysis with missing values.
method Nonparametric model using low-rank matrix factorization with time-smoothing regularization.
result Extracts meaningful sleep patterns and trends.
Graphical physics network learns intuitive physics using deep reinforcement learning with intrinsic motivation.
problem Teaching intuitive physics to AI agents.
method Integrates deep reinforcement learning with intrinsic reward normalization for efficient learning.
result Agent effectively learns object positions and velocities using intrinsic motivation.
New method clusters infant vocalizations using topological data.
problem Clustering infant vocalizations for developmental analysis.
method Topologically augmented signal representation with Dirichlet process mixture model.
result 8 clusters of vocalizations identified in the first 12 months of life.
Benchmark tests spoken language models for infant language learning.
problem Understanding how infants learn language from speech.
method Developed a language-acquisition-friendly benchmark.
result Benchmarking shows models' strengths and weaknesses.
Robot learns tool use from effects, detecting features of tools, objects, and actions.
problem Teaching robots to understand and manipulate objects using tools.
method Deep learning model trained on sensory-motor data from a robot performing a tool-use task.
result Robot can detect features of tools, objects, and actions from effects of object manipulation.
Infants are experts at playing, with an amazing ability to generate novel structured behaviors in unstructured environments that lack clear extrinsic reward signals. We seek to replicate some of these abilities with a neural network that implements curiosity-driven intrinsic motivation. Using a simple but ecologically …
Proposes a novel anomaly detection method for echocardiogram videos.
problem Anomaly detection in echocardiogram videos.
method Dynamic Variational Trajectory Models (TVAE-C, TVAE-R, TVAE-S) trained on healthy infant echocardiogram videos.
result Superior performance in detecting congenital heart defects and pulmonary hypertension.
API technique improves multiclass GAM interpretability.
problem Interpretability breakdown in multiclass GAMs.
method Developed two axioms and API technique for multiclass GAMs.
result API technique transforms multiclass GAMs to be visually interpretable.
We address the problem of bootstrapping language acquisition for an artificial system similarly to what is observed in experiments with human infants. Our method works by associating meanings to words in manipulation tasks, as a robot interacts with objects and listens to verbal descriptions of the interactions. The mo…
NGRs merge sparse graph recovery with PGMs for efficient probabilistic inference.
problem Efficiently recover sparse graphs and learn distributions over variables.
method Integrates sparse graph recovery methods with PGMs using Graph-constrained path norm.
result NGRs can handle multimodal data and perform sparse graph recovery and probabilistic inference.
Every year, 3 million newborns die within the first month of life. Birth asphyxia and other breathing-related conditions are a leading cause of mortality during the neonatal phase. Current diagnostic methods are too sophisticated in terms of equipment, required expertise, and general logistics. Consequently, early dete…
Researchers resolve the compactness problem for helicoidal minimal surfaces in 3-sphere.
problem Determine when helicoidal minimal surfaces are compact.
method Proved compactness conditions using explicit integrals and quotient surfaces.
result Compact members of the family are characterized by rational pitch and/or rational ratio of parameters.
This paper proposes a nonparametric Bayesian method for exploratory data analysis and feature construction in continuous time series. Our method focuses on understanding shared features in a set of time series that exhibit significant individual variability. Our method builds on the framework of latent Diricihlet alloc…
The paper proposes a test for trading intelligence similar to the Turing Test.
problem Determining if trading programs exhibit intelligent behavior.
method Develops a test based on the Turing Test for financial trading programs.
result Introduces a method to assess trading intelligence in financial markets.
SigTime learns interpretable signatures from time series data.
problem Discovering meaningful patterns in time series data with high complexity and limited interpretability.
method Jointly trains two Transformer models using shapelet-based and feature engineering representations.
result Learned shapelets serve as interpretable signatures for time series classification.
Automated discovery of early visual concepts from raw image data is a major open challenge in AI research. Addressing this problem, we propose an unsupervised approach for learning disentangled representations of the underlying factors of variation. We draw inspiration from neuroscience, and show how this can be achiev…
New methods estimate causal effects through mediators, handling confounding without strict assumptions.
problem Estimating causal effects through mediators while accounting for unmeasured confounding.
method Developed four nonparametric identification strategies using proximal confounding bridge functions, efficient influence function, and quadruply robust estimator. Proposed proximal debiased machine learning approach for high-dimensional nuisance parameters.
result Achieved n \sqrt{n} n -consistency and asymptotic normality for path-specific effect estimation. Proposes adversarial normalization for multi-domain image segmentation.
problem Current image normalization is per-dataset, limiting multi-domain segmentation.
method Adversarial training to learn common normalizing functions across multiple datasets.
result Optimal normalizer improves segmentation accuracy and realism.
Non-local U-Net improves biomedical image segmentation with fewer parameters and faster computation.
problem Efficiency and effectiveness in biomedical image segmentation using local operators.
method Proposed non-local U-Nets with flexible global aggregation blocks.
result Top performances achieved with fewer parameters and faster computation.
Study introduces a new method to estimate causal mediation with multiple mediators.
problem Estimating causal effects with multiple mediators and confounders.
method Simulates potential outcomes using parametric and nonparametric models.
result General approach to estimating various causal mediation quantities.
Bayesian Neural Networks show similar developmental stages as human learning.
problem Comparing human and machine learning stages.
method Operationalized developmental stages as data-set size, analyzed on three tasks.
result Bayesian Neural Networks exhibit similar developmental patterns to human learning.
Controlled interventions provide the most direct source of information for learning causal effects. In particular, a dose-response curve can be learned by varying the treatment level and observing the corresponding outcomes. However, interventions can be expensive and time-consuming. Observational data, where the treat…
Robots learn actions and language through curiosity-driven self-exploration.
problem Efficient development of actions and language in infants and robots.
method Curiosity-driven self-exploration using Q-learning to amortize active inference.
result Curiosity-driven exploration enables faster learning and compositional generalization.
New unsupervised learning framework for sound recognition.
problem Learning sound recognition without explicit labels.
method Combines self-supervised and clustering objectives with active learning.
result Achieves state-of-the-art unsupervised audio representation with reduced labels.
ExGAN generates realistic extreme samples using GANs and EVT.
problem Generating realistic extreme scenarios for risk management.
method ExGAN combines GANs with EVT to model extreme tails of distributions.
result ExGAN efficiently generates extreme samples with constant time complexity.
While learning the maximum likelihood value of parameters of an undirected graphical model is hard, modelling the posterior distribution over parameters given data is harder. Yet, undirected models are ubiquitous in computer vision and text modelling (e.g. conditional random fields). But where Bayesian approaches for d…
Study of regular points in extremal subsets of Alexandrov spaces.
problem Characterizing extremal subsets in Alexandrov spaces.
method Definition and analysis of regular points, properties of neighborhoods, and applications to convergence and fibration structures.
result Regular points have full measure and are dense in extremal subsets, with applications to convergence and fibration structures.