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.
Generative adversarial networks transform streetscape images to improve health and wellbeing.
problem Improving health and wellbeing outcomes through better streetscape design.
method Generative adversarial networks were used to translate Google Street View images, preserving structure while changing the style from bad health to good health areas.
result Translated images show that good health areas have more green space and compact urban design, while good social capital areas have more footpaths and less fencing.
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.
Improves flu prediction by blending environment and population info.
problem Challenges in using data from one environment in another due to feature variability and population subgroup differences.
method Population-aware hierarchical Bayesian domain adaptation framework with multiple invariant components.
result Model improves flu prediction in new environments with unlabelled data.
Deep learning system improves accuracy of food packaging date verification.
problem Improper labeling of food packaging poses health risks.
method Multi-source deep domain adaptation for domain-invariant representations and class boundary alignment.
result Significant improvement in classification accuracy of use-by date verification.
AI improves precision health through adaptive interventions.
problem Improving healthcare through personalized and dynamic treatments.
method Reinforcement learning (RL) for adaptive interventions in digital health.
result RL shows promise in dynamic healthcare problems.
Novel unsupervised scheme for highly imbalanced and overlapping datasets.
problem Highly imbalanced and overlapping classes in medical datasets.
method Unsupervised domain adaptation scheme based on Quantification.
result High quality results for Quantification and Domain Adaptation.
Efficient algorithm for mobile health provides timely physical activity suggestions.
problem Inefficient reinforcement learning for mobile health settings.
method Contextual bandit algorithm with linear mixed effects model and hyper-parameter updating.
result Improves speed and accuracy by up to 99% and 56%.
DeepCoDA provides personalized interpretability for complex health data.
problem Interpreting complex health data, especially compositional data, is challenging.
method DeepCoDA framework for high-dimensional compositional data, personalized interpretability through patient-specific weights.
result DeepCoDA maintains state-of-the-art performance and provides coherent, personalized interpretations.
Novel approach for robust domain generalization in health studies.
problem Challenges in making statistical inferences about underrepresented minority groups.
method Structured tensor completion for multi-dimensional domain generalization in linear regression models.
result Established rigorous theoretical guarantees and demonstrated minimax optimality.
Proposes a method to predict RUL with domain adaptation for PHM.
problem Domain shift reduces predictive model performance in PHM.
method Long Short-Term Neural Networks (LSTM) for domain adaptation.
result Proposed method provides more reliable RUL predictions under different conditions.
New method tackles MNAR missingness in domain adaptation.
problem Handling missingness in both source and target data.
method Reduces MNAR missingness to imputation problem, leveraging recent MNAR imputation methods.
result Developed a novel domain adaptation procedure for MNAR missingness shift.
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.
Community-based Question Answering (CQA) sites play an important role in addressing health information needs. However, a significant number of posted questions remain unanswered. Automatically answering the posted questions can provide a useful source of information for online health communities. In this study, we deve…
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.
In the past decade, tracking health trends using social media data has shown great promise, due to a powerful combination of massive adoption of social media around the world, and increasingly potent hardware and software that enables us to work with these new big data streams. At the same time, many challenging proble…
Domestic Violence (DV) is considered as big social issue and there exists a strong relationship between DV and health impacts of the public. Existing research studies have focused on social media to track and analyse real world events like emerging trends, natural disasters, user sentiment analysis, political opinions,…
Cardea automates machine learning for EHRs, improving model building efficiency.
problem Lack of a trusted, open-source framework for automated machine learning in EHRs.
method Uses FHIR for data structure, AUTOML frameworks for feature engineering, model selection, and tuning, and an adaptive data assembler.
result Demonstrates framework's effectiveness on 5 prediction tasks, highlighting its flexibility and human competitiveness.
Detects anomalies in product health metrics at eBay for better alerts.
problem Detecting anomalies in unsupervised product health metrics at eBay.
method Developed a Moving Metric Detector (MMD) for anomaly detection and a point-wise ranking model for alert retrieval.
result Improves alert precision and avoids alert spamming in eBay production.
Social media services such as Twitter are a valuable source of information for decision support systems. Many studies have shown that this also holds for the medical domain, where Twitter is considered a viable tool for public health officials to sift through relevant information for the early detection, management, an…
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.
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…
Paper tackles cost-sensitive diagnosis and learning in healthcare, assigning feature costs based on patient discomfort.
problem Cost-sensitive feature acquisition in healthcare datasets.
method Assigns feature costs based on patient discomfort and provides a method for acquiring a subset of features.
result Comparison of cost-sensitive feature acquisition methods on health datasets.
Feature selection, which searches for the most representative features in observed data, is critical for health data analysis. Unlike feature extraction, such as PCA and autoencoder based methods, feature selection preserves interpretability, meaning that the selected features provide direct information about certain h…
MoCA uses a novel autoencoder to analyze multi-modal health data.
problem Challenges in analyzing continuous multi-modal health data from wearable devices.
method Proposes MoCA, a self-supervised learning framework combining transformer and masked autoencoder methods.
result Demonstrates strong performance boosts across reconstruction and classification tasks.
Population attributes are essential in health for understanding who the data represents and precision medicine efforts. Even within disease infection labels, patients can exhibit significant variability; "fever" may mean something different when reported in a doctor's office versus from an online app, precluding direct…
Paper proposes embedding medical concepts from claims data for better risk adjustment models.
problem Lack of efficient representation of medical histories in risk adjustment models.
method Semantic embeddings of medical concepts from diagnostic, procedure, and prescription codes.
result Embedding-based models outperform commercial risk adjustment models in prospective risk score prediction.
Prototypical examples that best summarizes and compactly represents an underlying complex data distribution communicate meaningful insights to humans in domains where simple explanations are hard to extract. In this paper we present algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees to mine these data sets and select protot…
OT domain adaptation improves aphasia detection across languages.
problem Detecting aphasia in low-resource languages with limited data.
method Utilized OT domain adaptation to map linguistic features across multiple languages.
result OT domain adaptation significantly improved F1 scores for French and Mandarin aphasia detection.
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.
Text2Node maps medical phrases to a taxonomy, overcoming coding standard limitations.
problem Limited data interchangeability between EHR systems due to different coding standards.
method Text2Node uses word and node embeddings, along with mapping functions, to generalize from limited training data.
result Text2Node achieves high accuracy in mapping phrases to a taxonomy, even for unseen concepts.
AI generates a sequence of death causes from hospital records.
problem Accurate death reporting for vital statistics and policy formulation.
method Neural machine translation models to generate causal chains, incorporating medical domain knowledge.
result Achieved 16.04 BLEU score for generating accurate causal chains.
Unified RL survey for healthcare AI interventions.
problem Limited real-life application of RL in healthcare.
method Unified technical survey and case studies.
result Bridge between dynamic treatment regimes and mobile health.
A new RL framework evaluates dynamic mediation effects over time.
problem Dynamic mediation effects in sequentially assigned treatments.
method Reinforcement Learning framework for decomposition and estimation of causal effects.
result Superior performance demonstrated through numerical studies and real data analysis.
Deep learning predicts opioid use disorder risk in patients.
problem Identifying patients at high risk of opioid use disorder.
method Applied LSTM models to analyze electronic health records of opioid users.
result LSTM model outperformed other methods with F1 score of 0.8023 and AUCROC of 0.9369.
Acute respiratory infections have epidemic and pandemic potential and thus are being studied worldwide, albeit in many different contexts and study formats. Predicting infection from symptom data is critical, though using symptom data from varied studies in aggregate is challenging because the data is collected in diff…
Bayesian ATM improves stability and efficiency in mobile health interventions.
problem Balancing intervention efficacy with user burden in mobile health interventions.
method Bayesian extension to ATM using Kalman filter-style updates.
result Bayesian ATM achieves comparable or improved scalarized returns with lower variance and more stable policy behavior.
Paper compares three regularization-based methods for HAR, highlighting their strengths and limitations.
problem Challenges in evolving ML models for dynamic health and well-being applications.
method Evaluation of three regularization-based continual learning approaches for Human Activity Recognition (HAR).
result No single technique outperformed all others in all scenarios considered.
GANs help create realistic synthetic health data, boosting medical research.
problem Challenges in creating realistic synthetic health data due to private patient data.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn and produce synthetic health data.
result GANs can produce realistic synthetic health data, overcoming challenges in OHD.
This study generates synthetic data to augment sleep apnea detection datasets.
problem Insufficient and unbalanced training datasets for health applications.
method Designing a recurrent Generative Adversarial Network to generate synthetic data and balance the dataset.
result All classifiers exhibit improved performance in sensitivity and kappa statistic.
With the development of cloud computing and big data, the reliability of data storage systems becomes increasingly important. Previous researchers have shown that machine learning algorithms based on SMART attributes are effective methods to predict hard drive failures. In this paper, we use SMART attributes to predict…
Recent progress in deep learning is revolutionizing the healthcare domain including providing solutions to medication recommendations, especially recommending medication combination for patients with complex health conditions. Existing approaches either do not customize based on patient health history, or ignore existi…
mcanalysis quantifies menstrual cycle effects in health data.
problem Lack of standardised statistical methods for menstrual cycle research.
method Fourier-basis generalised additive model (GAM) pipeline.
result Nine out of 15 health outcomes showed significant association with menstrual cycle.
A new evolutionary approach discovers shapelets for time series classification.
problem Discovering discriminative shapelets for time series classification.
method Evolutionary computation to evolve shapelets and their lengths.
result The approach finds better shapelets with fewer shapelets and less computational complexity.
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.
Causal predictors don't generalize better across domains than non-causal predictors.
problem How well do causal predictors generalize across different domains?
method 16 prediction tasks on tabular datasets, selecting causal features.
result Causal predictors do not outperform non-causal predictors in domain generalization.
MetaPred uses meta-learning to improve clinical risk prediction from limited EHR data.
problem Clinical risk prediction from sparse patient EHR data.
method Meta-learning approach to train a meta-learner from related tasks, then fine-tune for target risk prediction.
result MetaPred achieves better performance for target risk prediction with limited data.
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.