ML4H workshop at NeurIPS 2018 focuses on health applications of machine learning.
problem Improving health outcomes through machine learning.
method Presented health applications and machine learning techniques.
result Demonstrated the potential of machine learning in healthcare.
Study user engagement in mobile health apps for health workers in resource-poor settings.
problem Detect churn and tailor content for health workers in mobile health apps.
method Probabilistic and survival analysis of behavioral logs.
result Personalized measures of meaningful engagement can enhance health outcomes.
Examines fairness in ML for health, highlighting its importance and challenges.
problem Ensuring fairness in ML models for health to prevent health disparities.
method Reviews fairness notions in ML for health, including group, individual, and causal-based approaches.
result Discusses the importance and challenges of fairness in health-focused ML applications.
Proposes a deep spectral Q-learning for mobile health data.
problem Personalized treatment assignment for patients with time-varying covariates.
method Integrates PCA with deep Q-learning for mixed frequency data.
result Mean return converges to optimal under estimated optimal policy.
Mobile apps and machine learning improve malaria prevention and treatment.
problem High malaria cases and deaths in low-income countries.
method Adaptive interventions using mobile health apps and machine learning.
result Increased malaria testing, adherence, and provider skills.
Proposes a model to handle mobile health data with irregular measurements.
problem Handling heterogeneous, multi-resolution data in mobile health.
method Individualized dynamic latent factor model for irregular multi-resolution time series data.
result Superior performance compared to existing methods in simulation and smartwatch data applications.
Study finds macroeconomic indicators predict health workforce and infrastructure measures.
problem Evaluating the predictive value of macroeconomic indicators for public health targets.
method Examined multiple forecasting approaches including neural networks, generalized additive models, random forests, and time series models with exogenous indicators.
result Macroeconomic indicators provide consistent and reproducible predictive signals for health workforce and infrastructure measures, but less so for other targets.
New fair regression methods improve health care spending predictions for undercompensated groups.
problem Current risk adjustment formulas underpredict spending for specific health groups, leading to unfair compensation.
method Developed new fair regression methods by integrating fairness considerations into the objective function.
result New methods lead to significant improvements in fairness (98%) with minimal impact on overall fit (4%).
HealthSyn generates synthetic user behavior data for health interventions.
problem Lack of representative data for testing AI health interventions.
method Uses Markov processes to simulate diverse user actions, generating logs for ML algorithms.
result Synthetic data can be used to develop, test, and evaluate ML algorithms and RL-based interventions.
Since 2006, deep learning (DL) has become a rapidly growing research direction, redefining state-of-the-art performances in a wide range of areas such as object recognition, image segmentation, speech recognition and machine translation. In modern manufacturing systems, data-driven machine health monitoring is gaining …
Paper proposes a method to model health outcomes using varying-coefficients and KNN-based LASSO.
problem Modeling health outcomes like BMI and cholesterol levels with varying age effects.
method Varying-coefficients regional quantile regression via KNN fused LASSO, with ADMM algorithm.
result Efficacy in capturing complex age-dependent associations between health outcomes and risk factors.
The paper improves decision tree stability for health care applications.
problem Stability of decision trees in health care applications.
method Introducing a new distance metric to determine tree stability and proposing a novel training methodology.
result On average, a 4.6% decrease in predictive power yields a 38% increase in model stability.
The CHAMPION study clusters multi-dimensional accelerometer data to understand health links.
problem Clustering multi-dimensional data from pediatric longitudinal studies.
method Developed a finite mixture of multidimensional arrays model for clustering 4-dimensional accelerometer data.
result Demonstrated the feasibility and utility of clustering higher order data.
Alternative model predicts health insurance reimbursement based on contract limitations.
problem Estimating the ratio of reimbursement to health care expenditures after deductibles and copayments.
method Proposes a Zero-One Inflated Beta regression model using GAMLSS.
result The model provides a dependency structure between reimbursement and contract limitations.
Supervised learning improves disease outbreak detection accuracy.
problem Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks to protect public health.
method Developed a supervised learning approach based on hidden Markov models for disease outbreak detection.
result Reduces false positive rate by up to 50% while maintaining sensitivity.
Machine learning models outperform traditional actuarial methods in predicting health insurance costs.
problem Improving accuracy in health insurance pricing to identify concession opportunities.
method Developed and evaluated two machine learning models at the patient and employer-group levels.
result Machine learning models outperformed traditional actuarial models by 20% in predicting costs.
Stable health predictions need deconfounding test set features.
problem Stability of predictions in health machine learning is compromised by selection biases.
method Deconfounding the test set features improves prediction stability across different environments.
result Improved stability achieved by deconfounding test set features.
The field of mobile health aims to leverage recent advances in wearable on-body sensing technology and smart phone computing capabilities to develop systems that can monitor health states and deliver just-in-time adaptive interventions. However, existing work has largely focused on analyzing collected data in the off-l…
AI improves healthcare diagnostics and predictions.
problem Data heterogeneity and model limitations in AI for health.
method Review of AI applications in health informatics.
result AI enhances disease diagnosis and prediction.
Develops algorithms to balance personalization and statistical power in mobile health studies.
problem Balancing personalization and statistical power in mobile health studies.
method Develops general meta-algorithms to modify existing bandit algorithms.
result Guarantees sufficient power while improving user well-being.
Model predicts community health outcomes from social media language.
problem Linking social media language to community health outcomes.
method Sentence embeddings, regression model, clustering, without additional data.
result Predicts community-level medical outcomes from social media language.
Risk-based active learning improves SHM decision-making.
problem Lack of prior labels for structural health monitoring.
method Risk-based active learning approach to guide data labeling.
result Improves decision-maker's performance in SHM.
Two machine learning models detect anomalies in ER claims, saving up to 40% in improper payments.
problem Improper health insurance payments from fraud and upcoding.
method Two machine learning models: an upcoding model based on severity code distributions and a random forest model for claim sorting.
result Random forest model saved 12% to 40% in improper payments compared to a baseline approach.
Novel imputation method for EHRs with structured and sporadic missingness.
problem Missing data in integrated EHR datasets for clinical applications.
method Macomss, a novel imputation framework for structurally and heterogeneously missing data.
result Macomss outperforms existing methods in imputation and downstream prediction accuracy.
Transfer learning improves machine learning models for equipment diagnostics.
problem Limited model performance due to training data mismatch.
method Transfer learning to reuse knowledge from similar tasks.
result Transfer learning enhances model applicability in PHM.
Satellite images predict U.S. county mortality rates.
problem Predicting mortality rates in U.S. counties using satellite imagery.
method Convolutional neural network trained on crude mortality rates, learned features interpreted using Shapley Additive Feature Explanations.
result Predicted mortality from satellite images correlated strongly with true mortality rates (Pearson r=0.72).
This study applies neural models to automatically recognize medical entities from natural language.
problem Automated recognition of medical entities from natural language is complex and time-consuming.
method Utilizes deep neural sequence models trained on a large dataset of death certificates.
result Deep neural models can efficiently recognize medical entities from natural language.
Repository tackles fake health news in cancer research.
problem Spread of fake health news over the internet.
method Developed comprehensive FakeHealth repository with rich features and detailed explanations.
result Repository helps in understanding and validating health fake news datasets.
System identifies health risks using semantic and machine learning.
problem Identifying risk factors associated with health conditions in subpopulations.
method Developed a combined semantic and machine learning system using a health risk ontology and knowledge graph.
result Dynamic discovery of risk factors and their subpopulations.
A recommendation framework helps users choose healthcare interventions.
problem Choice overload in online healthcare communities.
method Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) approach with innovative model components.
result Our recommendation design outperforms state-of-the-art systems.
Paper presents a data preprocessing method for PHM models.
problem Lack of consistent data preprocessing for PHM applications.
method Comprehensive pipeline for sensor data preprocessing.
result Creation of clean data sets for training machinery health state classifiers.
Paper uses SLT to improve model selection for SHM.
problem Model selection for SHM using data-based systems.
method Utilizes Statistical Learning Theory to rigorously estimate generalisation.
result Incorporating domain knowledge improves model generalisation.
Develops a method to efficiently use offline data for RL policy optimization.
problem Lack of online data for offline RL in mobile health applications.
method Advantage learning framework using optimal Q-estimators.
result New policy converges faster than existing methods.
Study uses machine learning to predict future health from various health data types.
problem Predicting future health using diverse health data types.
method Applied machine learning (neural networks and XGBoost) to longitudinal data from 6830 individuals.
result Health-related measures were the strongest predictors of future health status, while genetic data performed poorly.
Early diagnosis is important for type 2 diabetes (T2D) to improve patient prognosis, prevent complications and reduce long-term treatment costs. We present a novel risk profiling approach based exclusively on health expenditure data that is available to Belgian mutual health insurers. We used expenditure data related t…
This review explores methods for detecting Adverse Drug Events in EHRs.
problem Detecting Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) in EHRs using temporal data.
method Examines 5 main approaches: temporal abstraction, graph-based, learning weights, and time series data.
result Challenges remain in exploiting heterogeneous temporal data for ADE detection.
New algorithm forecasts health indicators for better equipment lifespan prediction.
problem Improving equipment lifespan prediction through health indicator forecasting.
method Generative + scenario matching approach using Gaussian Process.
result Superior performance compared to existing methods.
Paper proposes sharing models instead of data for smart health predictions.
problem Sharing sensitive medical data is legally restricted and challenging.
method Train a teacher model on sensitive data, then transfer its knowledge to a student model without accessing original data.
result Student model mimics teacher model performance in making accurate predictions.
LHIEM model predicts health, income, and employment over years.
problem Lack of path dependency in health policy simulations.
method Discrete-time microsimulation with Markov chain modules.
result Validates health care financing proposal through detailed modeling.
Automatically assesses the quality of online health articles.
problem Lack of automated tools to evaluate the quality of online health information.
method Data mining approach using 10 quality criteria and feature selection.
result Classifier achieved 84%-90% accuracy on 10 criteria.
Paper proposes a hierarchical approach for early anomaly detection in time series data for critical health events.
problem Early detection of critical health events in intensive care units.
method A layered learning architecture that breaks the problem into pre-conditional and event layers.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for critical health episode prediction.
DynGraph2Seq predicts health stages from user activity graphs in online forums.
problem Predicting health stages from changing user activities in online forums.
method Formulated user activities as dynamic graphs, used DynGraph2Seq model with hierarchical attention.
result Demonstrated effectiveness and interpretability of DynGraph2Seq.
Study assesses health plan risk measures for Solvency Capital Requirement.
problem Assessing risk measures for health plans to meet Solvency Capital Requirement.
method Three-part regression model with three GLMs for claim counts, episode allocation, and severity.
result Reduction in regression models compared to traditional methods.
Although there are millions of transgender people in the world, a lack of information exists about their health issues. This issue has consequences for the medical field, which only has a nascent understanding of how to identify and meet this population's health-related needs. Social media sites like Twitter provide ne…
Deep neural network predicts health costs better than traditional models.
problem Accurate prediction of healthcare costs for optimal cost management.
method Developed a deep neural network to predict future health care costs from health insurance claims records.
result Deep neural network outperformed ridge regression and Morbi-RSA models in cost prediction.
GP-HD uses genetic programming to generate personalized health models.
problem Creating accurate, personalized health models from large health data.
method Genetic Programming framework to generate parameterized dynamical systems models.
result GP-HD models perform similarly to models based on domain knowledge and outperform LSTM models.
New method for sensing non-planar surfaces using ERT.
problem Limited computational techniques for planar surfaces in ERT-based sensing skins.
method Generalized ERT to non-planar surfaces using Riemannian geometry.
result Feasibility and applicability of ERT-based sensing skins for non-planar geometries demonstrated.
Study uses social media analytics to identify exercise-related topics.
problem Understanding exercise-related discussions on social media.
method Data collection, topic modeling, and data annotation.
result 86% of detected topics were meaningful after annotation.