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Leveraging Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Enhancement: Trends, Challenges and Opportunitiesstat.OT
Big data analytics improves healthcare through early detection and quality life.
problem Limited access to healthcare data hinders evidence-based decision-making.
method Analysis of healthcare data using various tools and techniques.
result Big data analytics enhances healthcare quality and patient outcomes.
Develops robust learning framework under distributional perturbations.
problem Learning robust to data distributional changes.
method Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) under Wasserstein metric.
result Establishes performance guarantees and tractable formulations.
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.
The past decade has seen an explosion in the amount of digital information stored in electronic health records (EHR). While primarily designed for archiving patient clinical information and administrative healthcare tasks, many researchers have found secondary use of these records for various clinical informatics tasks…
Automatic representation learning of key entities in electronic health record (EHR) data is a critical step for healthcare informatics that turns heterogeneous medical records into structured and actionable information. Here we propose ME2Vec, an algorithmic framework for learning low-dimensional vectors of the most co…
Geotechnics adopts data-driven methods from materials informatics.
problem Soil complexity and lack of comprehensive data.
method Leveraging deep learning and transfer learning for feature extraction.
result Revolutionary potential of advanced computational tools in geotechnics.
De-identification of electronic health records (EHR) is a vital step towards advancing health informatics research and maximising the use of available data. It is a two-step process where step one is the identification of protected health information (PHI), and step two is replacing such PHI with surrogates. Despite th…
In this paper are presented methods of impact analysis on informatics system security accidents, qualitative and quantitative methods, starting with risk and informational system security definitions. It is presented the relationship between the risks of exploiting vulnerabilities of security system, security level of …
YouTube presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore how machine learning methods can improve healthcare information dissemination. We propose an interdisciplinary lens that synthesizes machine learning methods with healthcare informatics themes to address the critical issue of developing a scalable algorithmic sol…
The goal of Machine Learning to automatically learn from data, extract knowledge and to make decisions without any human intervention. Such automatic (aML) approaches show impressive success. Recent results even demonstrate intriguingly that deep learning applied for automatic classification of skin lesions is on par w…
PiNet improves graph classification efficiency and accuracy.
problem Graph level classification challenges.
method Attention-based pooling mechanism for graph convolution operations.
result Superior performance and high sample efficiency.
Electronic phenotyping is the task of ascertaining whether an individual has a medical condition of interest by analyzing their medical record and is foundational in clinical informatics. Increasingly, electronic phenotyping is performed via supervised learning. We investigate the effectiveness of multitask learning fo…
SFM generates smooth functional data without exposing real data.
problem Challenges in statistical analysis of functional data.
method Copula framework and smooth flow construction.
result SFM produces high-quality synthetic functional data.
Characterization of a patient clinical phenotype is central to biomedical informatics. ICD codes, assigned to inpatient encounters by coders, is important for population health and cohort discovery when clinical information is limited. While ICD codes are assigned to patients by professionals trained and certified in c…
The portfolio optimization problem in which the variances of the return rates of assets are not identical is analyzed in this paper using the methodology of statistical mechanical informatics, specifically, replica analysis. We define two characteristic quantities of an optimal portfolio, namely, minimal investment ris…
Machine learning has become pervasive in multiple domains, impacting a wide variety of applications, such as knowledge discovery and data mining, natural language processing, information retrieval, computer vision, social and health informatics, ubiquitous computing, etc. Two essential problems of machine learning are …
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.
Predicting the patient's clinical outcome from the historical electronic medical records (EMR) is a fundamental research problem in medical informatics. Most deep learning-based solutions for EMR analysis concentrate on learning the clinical visit embedding and exploring the relations between visits. Although those wor…
Evaluating the clinical similarities between pairwise patients is a fundamental problem in healthcare informatics. A proper patient similarity measure enables various downstream applications, such as cohort study and treatment comparative effectiveness research. One major carrier for conducting patient similarity resea…
TimeAutoML: Autonomous Representation Learning for Multivariate Irregularly Sampled Time Seriescs.LG
TimeAutoML learns effective representations for irregularly sampled MTS data without manual tuning.
problem Learning effective representations for multivariate time series with irregular sampling rates and variable lengths.
method Autonomous representation learning pipeline with negative sample generation and auxiliary classification task.
result TimeAutoML achieves up to 20% performance improvement in anomaly detection on UCR datasets.
Paper finds previous work on submanifolds incorrect.
problem Incorrect definition of semi-invariant submanifolds.
method Examined previous work's definition and found it flawed.
result Previous results on semi-invariant submanifolds are invalid.
Finding an informative subset of a large collection of data points or models is at the center of many problems in computer vision, recommender systems, bio/health informatics as well as image and natural language processing. Given pairwise dissimilarities between the elements of a `source set' and a `target set,' we co…
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.
Previous studies into the budget constraint of portfolio optimization problems based on statistical mechanical informatics have not considered that the purchase cost per unit of each asset is distinct. Moreover, the fact that the optimal investment allocation differs depending on the size of investable funds has also b…
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.
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.
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.
With different genomes available, unsupervised learning algorithms are essential in learning genome-wide biological insights. Especially, the functional characterization of different genomes is essential for us to understand lives. In this book chapter, we review the state-of-the-art unsupervised learning algorithms fo…
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.
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.
One primary task of population health analysis is the identification of risk factors that, for some subpopulation, have a significant association with some health condition. Examples include finding lifestyle factors associated with chronic diseases and finding genetic mutations associated with diseases in precision he…
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.
Territorial control is a key aspect shaping the dynamics of civil war. Despite its importance, we lack data on territorial control that are fine-grained enough to account for subnational spatio-temporal variation and that cover a large set of conflicts. To resolve this issue, we propose a theoretical model of the relat…
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.
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.
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.
Online health communities such as the online breast cancer forum enable patients (i.e., users) to interact and help each other within various subforums, which are subsections of the main forum devoted to specific health topics. The changing nature of the users' activities in different subforums can be strong indicators…
The distribution of health care payments to insurance plans has substantial consequences for social policy. Risk adjustment formulas predict spending in health insurance markets in order to provide fair benefits and health care coverage for all enrollees, regardless of their health status. Unfortunately, current risk a…
Model predicts COVID-19 growth in Senegal, highlighting health care capacity importance.
problem Impact of health care capacity on COVID-19 growth in Senegal.
method Compartmental model with logistic growth health care capacity, machine learning projection.
result Condition to avoid overwhelming health care system provided.
Deep learning using neural networks has provided advances in image style transfer, merging the content of one image (e.g., a photo) with the style of another (e.g., a painting). Our research shows this concept can be extended to analyse the design of streetscapes in relation to health and wellbeing outcomes. An Austral…
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.
This study seeks to validate a search protocol of ill health-related terms using Twitter data which can later be used to understand if, and how, Twitter can reveal information on the current health situation. We extracted conversations related to health and disease postings on Twitter using a set of pre-defined keyword…
Develops a personalized reinforcement learning algorithm for dyadic health interventions.
problem Personalizing health interventions for dyadic relationships in mobile health.
method Dyadic Reinforcement Learning (dyadic RL), a Bayesian and hierarchical online algorithm.
result Established a regret bound and demonstrated empirical performance through simulations and real data.
Digital tools in occupational health, brakes or levers for building multidisciplinary dynamics?stat.ML
Digital tools may hinder or facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.
problem Challenges in multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.
method Study of a precursor SPSTI's digital tools and their impacts.
result Digital tools can act as both brakes and levers for multidisciplinary dynamics.