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.
A Longitudinal Attribute-Conditioned Neural Network (LANTERN) framework for modeling health-state transition probabilities in irregular longitudinal data.
problem Estimating long-term care transition probabilities in irregular longitudinal health data.
method A neural network that learns from individual health history, incorporates time elapsed, and conditions on demographic and socioeconomic attributes.
result Improves severe disability discrimination and maintains strong calibration.
AdaCare learns health status from biomarkers across multiple time scales.
problem Lack of explicit extraction of historical biomarker variation and adaptability to diverse patient conditions.
method Scale-adaptive feature extraction and recalibration for interpretability.
result AdaCare achieves state-of-the-art prediction accuracy and provides interpretable results.
The opioid epidemic in the United States claims over 40,000 lives per year, and it is estimated that well over two million Americans have an opioid use disorder. Over-prescription and misuse of prescription opioids play an important role in the epidemic. Individuals who are prescribed opioids, and who are diagnosed wit…
Accurate real-time monitoring systems of influenza outbreaks help public health officials make informed decisions that may help save lives. We show that information extracted from cloud-based electronic health records databases, in combination with machine learning techniques and historical epidemiological information,…
Study shows racial bias in health data, which can be reduced with simple techniques.
problem Racial bias in health indicators measured by the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
method Used publicly available and nationally representative MEPS data to show bias in predictive models for care management.
result Racial bias can be significantly reduced using simple mitigation techniques.
Personalized predictive medicine necessitates the modeling of patient illness and care processes, which inherently have long-term temporal dependencies. Healthcare observations, recorded in electronic medical records, are episodic and irregular in time. We introduce DeepCare, an end-to-end deep dynamic neural network t…
Bedside monitors in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) frequently sound incorrectly, slowing response times and desensitising nurses to alarms (Chambrin, 2001), causing true alarms to be missed (Hug et al., 2011). We compare sliding window predictors with recurrent predictors to classify patient state-of-health from ICU multi…
The paper analyzes optimal timing for converting wealth into annuities in the presence of a mortality shock.
problem Optimal timing for converting retirement wealth into annuities under a mortality risk.
method Derives explicit closed-form solutions for value function and optimal stopping boundaries.
result The optimal strategy depends on the interplay between annuity attractiveness, investment returns, and bequest motives.
AVEC 2019 challenges AI in detecting depression and cross-cultural emotions.
problem Detecting depression and cross-cultural emotions from audiovisual data.
method Comparison of machine learning methods under standardized conditions.
result Baseline system performance on state-of-mind, depression, and cross-cultural tasks.
Agent decides when to measure latent states in RL to improve efficiency.
problem Costly state measurement in RL negatively affects future outcomes.
method Introduces AOMDP with measurement action, uses online RL and sequential Monte Carlo.
result Reduced uncertainty improves sample efficiency and policy value.
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.
Paper introduces score embedding for Twitter sentiment analysis of health care issues.
problem Analyzing public opinion on health care plans using social media.
method Score embedding, a neural network model for word representations.
result Score embedding effectively captures sentiment and outperforms existing methods.
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.
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.
Study integrates diverse data sources to predict mental health conditions.
problem Predict individuals' mental health conditions using a heterogeneous network approach.
method Leverage a heterogeneous information network (HIN) to model social interaction, health data, and survey data. Apply recommender system (RS) and node classification (NC) paradigms to predict mental health states.
result RS and NC methods outperform traditional logistic regression models in predicting mental health conditions.
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.
Diabetes is a major public health problem in the United States, affecting roughly 30 million people. Diabetes complications, along with the mental health comorbidities that often co-occur with them, are major drivers of high healthcare costs, poor outcomes, and reduced treatment adherence in diabetes. Here, we evaluate…
The paper develops a valuation framework for GLWB-LTC contracts with Levy dynamics and stochastic interest rates.
problem Valuation of GLWB-LTC contracts with financial guarantees, longevity protection, and health-contingent LTC payments.
method Coupling a recombining Hull-White trinomial tree with an IMEX finite difference scheme, incorporating a seven-state health model.
result Hybrid tree-IMEX method delivers stable long-maturity prices consistent with simulation benchmarks.
Improves disease progression prediction using auxiliary surrogate labels and health markers.
problem Challenges in predicting disease progression due to unknown true disease states.
method Integrates hidden Markov model with time-varying discriminative classification model.
result Significant improvement in distinguishing LBD from AD using objective markers.
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).
StageNet improves health risk prediction by integrating disease stage information.
problem Improving health risk prediction for patients with chronic conditions.
method StageNet uses a stage-aware LSTM and stage-adaptive convolutional modules to extract and integrate disease stage information.
result StageNet achieves up to 12% higher AUPRC for risk prediction and over 58% higher Calinski-Harabasz score for patient subtyping compared to state-of-the-art models.
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 …
Study on privacy-preserving health care models that sacrifice accuracy for data protection.
problem Privacy-preserving models in health care neglect data from the tails, reducing accuracy for small groups.
method Used state-of-the-art differentially private learning methods for clinical prediction tasks.
result Privacy-preserving models in health care exhibit steep tradeoffs between privacy and utility, and disproportionately influence large demographic groups.
The paper presents a systematic review of state-of-the-art approaches to identify patient cohorts using electronic health records. It gives a comprehensive overview of the most commonly de-tected phenotypes and its underlying data sets. Special attention is given to preprocessing of in-put data and the different modeli…
Model predicts cognitive health risks based on smartphone usage patterns.
problem Identifying cognitive health risks through smartphone usage.
method Structured models of smartphone interactions analyzed over 12 weeks.
result AUROC of 0.79 in discriminating between healthy and symptomatic subjects.
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…
The health state assessment and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation play very important roles in prognostics and health management (PHM), owing to their abilities to reduce the maintenance and improve the safety of machines or equipment. However, they generally suffer from this problem of lacking prior knowledge to …
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.
This paper studies an intelligent ultimate technique for health-monitoring and prognostic of common rotary machine components, particularly bearings. During a run-to-failure experiment, rich unsupervised features from vibration sensory data are extracted by a trained sparse auto-encoder. Then, the correlation of the ex…
The early detection of infectious disease outbreaks is a crucial task to protect population health. To this end, public health surveillance systems have been established to systematically collect and analyse infectious disease data. A variety of statistical tools are available, which detect potential outbreaks as abber…
Gaussian Process Regression improves damage assessment in structural health monitoring.
problem Inaccurate damage quantification in varying conditions and environments.
method Gaussian Process Regression models with Damage Indices for probabilistic damage assessment.
result The method provides probability-based decision-making for structural health monitoring.
New approach tackles non-Markovian behavior in maternal health programs.
problem Improving adherence and engagement in maternal and child healthcare programs.
method Extending RMABs to non-Markovian settings, using time-series forecasting and TARI policy.
result Significant increase in engagement and content listened compared to existing methods.
This thesis evaluates text-based vs audio-based classification of mental health interviews.
problem Classifying psychiatric illness using text-based methods.
method Design and evaluate a text classification network on mental health interviews, using belabBERT.
result Text-based classification is a strong alternative to audio-based methods.
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.
Framework optimizes battery storage for markets by separating long-term degradation from short-term market dynamics.
problem Intractable computation due to timescale mismatch between battery degradation and market dynamics.
method Approximate dynamic programming with value function approximation and pseudo-time encoding.
result Policy outperforms benchmarks in real-time market scenarios.
Hidden Markov Models classify cough events with high accuracy.
problem Identifying coughing events in noisy environments for health monitoring.
method Used Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for cough classification.
result Multivariate HMMs achieved 92% AUR in classifying cough events.
Develops RL algorithm for non-Markovian, non-stationary reward streams.
problem Maximizing rewards from non-Markovian, non-stationary reward streams.
method Uses causal DAG to construct Markov states, solves periodic MDP.
result Optimal state construction maximizes discounted rewards.
Study validates machine learning models for patient outcomes using various methods.
problem Validating machine learning models for patient outcomes in electronic health records.
method Used three state-of-the-art machine learning methods (random forest, gradient boosting, logistic regression) to predict patient outcomes and assess feature importance.
result Permutation tests applied to random forest and gradient boosting models showed the most agreement with clinical interpretation of feature importance.
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%.
Study identifies key health behaviors linked to adolescent suicide attempts.
problem Understanding health behaviors associated with increased risk of adolescent suicide attempts.
method Cross-sectional data analysis using machine learning algorithms and logistic regression.
result Non-parametric Bayesian tree ensemble model outperforms other models, achieving 80.0% accuracy in goodness-of-fit and 78.2% in predictive accuracy.
Generative model predicts vehicle faults up to 1000 hours in advance.
problem Forecasting vehicle faults for predictive maintenance.
method Generative model trained on US Army data, incorporating real-world factors.
result Highly accurate predictions of time to first fault.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Life-expectancy is a complex outcome driven by genetic, socio-demographic, environmental and geographic factors. Increasing socio-economic and health disparities in the United States are propagating the longevity-gap, making it a cause for concern. Earlier studies have probed individual factors but an integrated pictur…
IntelligentPooling learns personalized mHealth policies from limited data.
problem Challenges in personalizing mHealth policies with limited user data and noise.
method Adaptive use of other users' data to learn personalized policies.
result Achieves 26% lower regret compared to state-of-the-art approaches.