SaML guides ML models to avoid survey biases.
problem ML models trained on survey data often ignore survey design metadata.
method Nine-step guideline for incorporating survey design metadata in ML lifecycle.
result SaML provides valid population inference from survey data.
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.
Method fuses low and high-resolution data for better health estimates.
problem Improving high-resolution health estimates from mixed data sources.
method Fusion of unbiased low-resolution and potentially biased high-resolution data, learning a distribution consistent with sampling bias.
result Significant reduction in bias in high-resolution estimates.
Estimates disease prevalence using non-ignorable missing data in health surveys.
problem Estimating disease prevalence in non-representative samples with non-ignorable missing data.
method Connects auxiliary proxy variable framework to label shift setting, uses high-dimensional covariates without generative models.
result Fails to account for non-ignorable missingness can lead to significant misestimations.
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.
Depression and anxiety are critical public health issues affecting millions of people around the world. To identify individuals who are vulnerable to depression and anxiety, predictive models have been built that typically utilize data from one source. Unlike these traditional models, in this study, we leverage a rich …
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.
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…
Prediction of disease onset from patient survey and lifestyle data is quickly becoming an important tool for diagnosing a disease before it progresses. In this study, data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) questionnaire is used to predict the onset of type II diabetes. An ensemble model…
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 …
TabSODA improves imputation of surveys with skips and ordinal data.
problem Handling structural skips and ordinal responses in survey data.
method TabSODA uses an Elucidated Diffusion Model with skip pattern detection and ordinal awareness.
result TabSODA reduces ordinal missing-at-random (MACE) by up to 23.7% and improves categorical accuracy by up to 9%.
Semiparametric STAR model improves mental health data analysis.
problem Overdispersed, zero-inflated, bounded count data in self-reported mental health surveys.
method STAR transformation and rounding of latent Gaussian model, nonparametric transformation estimation, EM algorithm for maximum likelihood.
result Substantial improvements in goodness-of-fit compared to existing models.
Survey of EEG market and machine learning applications.
problem Improving neurology through data-driven research.
method Comprehensive survey of EEG applications and market.
result Machine learning enhances EEG applications and market growth.
Method completes mixed matrix from complex surveys with heterogeneous missingness.
problem Recovering a mixed dataframe matrix from complex survey sampling with different missingness patterns.
method Two-stage procedure: logistic regression for missingness modeling, and weighted log-likelihood maximization with low-rank constraint.
result The proposed method achieves sublinear convergence and shows superior performance compared to existing methods.
Survey reviews explainability in AI for healthcare, emphasizing trust and transparency.
problem Lack of transparency hinders AI adoption in healthcare.
method Comprehensive literature review to guide explainable AI design.
result Quantitative evaluation metrics are needed for some explainability properties.
We build a deep reinforcement learning (RL) agent that can predict the likelihood of an individual testing positive for malaria by asking questions about their household. The RL agent learns to determine which survey question to ask next and when to stop to make a prediction about their likelihood of malaria based on t…
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…
The paper tackles robust classification trees for distribution shifts, improving accuracy in public health and social work.
problem Learning robust classification trees for high-stakes settings with distribution shifts.
method Mixed-integer robust optimization technology to reformulate as a two-stage linear robust optimization problem.
result Increase of up to 12.48% in worst-case accuracy and 4.85% in average-case accuracy.
Disease prediction or classification using health datasets involve using well-known predictors associated with the disease as features for the models. This study considers multiple data components of an individual's health, using the relationship between variables to generate features that may improve the performance o…
Introduces nondecreasing rank for matrices and tensors, developing methods and applications.
problem Finding low-rank approximations for matrices and tensors with monotonic constraints.
method Developed a variant of hierarchical alternating least squares algorithm for finding low ND rank approximations.
result Low ND rank factorizations can be found and interpreted for real-world datasets.
Study decomposes racial healthcare disparities via shifts in mediator distributions.
problem Racial disparities in healthcare expenditures and their underlying drivers.
method Framework decomposing disparities into mediator distribution shifts and residual components, using MEPS data.
result Substantial disparities persist even when mediators are equalized, suggesting unmeasured or structural factors.
Study uses ML to predict non-participation in ELSA COVID-19 follow-up studies.
problem Predicting non-participation in follow-up surveys due to various factors.
method Used machine learning algorithms including KNN, RF, AdaBoost, logistic regression, NN, and SVC.
result Random Forest (RF) outperforms other models in balanced accuracy.
Survey on learning models for irregularly sampled time series data.
problem Challenges in learning from non-uniformly sampled time series data.
method Survey of recent models and architectures based on temporal discretization, interpolation, recurrence, attention, and structural invariance.
result Significant progress in machine learning for irregularly sampled time series data.
IML methods improve survival analysis transparency.
problem Limited interpretability in survival analysis models.
method Adapting IML techniques to survival analysis.
result Enhanced understanding of model predictions and risks.
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.
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.
Survey categorizes time series anomaly detection methods.
problem Need for anomaly detection in time series data.
method Process-centric taxonomy of anomaly detection methods.
result Meta-analysis of time series anomaly detection trends.
The world is witnessing an unprecedented growth of cyber-physical systems (CPS), which are foreseen to revolutionize our world {via} creating new services and applications in a variety of sectors such as environmental monitoring, mobile-health systems, intelligent transportation systems and so on. The {information and …
Survey of robust clustering methods for hotspot detection.
problem Detecting false positives in spatial hotspot mapping.
method Statistically rigorous clustering techniques.
result Survey of models and algorithms for robust clustering.
Survey of techniques for diagnosing pediatric sleep apnea from inexpensive data.
problem Diagnosing pediatric sleep apnea from limited and variable data.
method Exploratory data analysis using correlation networks, Mapper, SVD; supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
result Analysis of various learning techniques applied to pediatric sleep apnea data.
In this paper, we consider the problem of predicting demographics of geographic units given geotagged Tweets that are composed within these units. Traditional survey methods that offer demographics estimates are usually limited in terms of geographic resolution, geographic boundaries, and time intervals. Thus, it would…
New methods reduce bias in machine learning predictions for causal inference without extra data.
problem Machine learning predictions from satellite data shrink toward the mean, leading to biased causal estimates.
method Two post-hoc correction methods: Linear Calibration Correction (LCC) and Tweedie's approach, reduce shrinkage-induced bias.
result Tweedie's method yields nearly unbiased treatment-effect estimates, enabling multiple trials with a single map.
New model estimates indoor radon distribution with higher spatial resolution.
problem Accurate estimation of indoor radon concentration for health assessment.
method Quantile regression forest and probabilistic Monte Carlo sampling.
result Approximate lognormal distribution of indoor radon in Germany with specific exceedance probabilities.
Survey of AI-based outlier detection methods for various domains.
problem Detecting unusual events to prevent infrastructure damage.
method Categorizes six major OD methods: Statistical, Distance, Density, Clustering, Learning, and Ensemble.
result Advances and challenges of each method discussed.
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.
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.
In this survey paper, we systematically summarize existing literature on bearing fault diagnostics with machine learning (ML) and data mining techniques. While conventional ML methods, including artificial neural network (ANN), principal component analysis (PCA), support vector machines (SVM), etc., have been successfu…
New datasets improve fairness research by revealing UCI Adult's limitations.
problem Limitations of UCI Adult dataset in fairness research.
method Reconstructed a superset of UCI Adult data from US Census sources.
result New datasets reveal trade-offs between fairness criteria and performance.
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.
The application of existing methods for constructing optimal dynamic treatment regimes is limited to cases where investigators are interested in optimizing a utility function over a fixed period of time (finite horizon). In this manuscript, we develop an inferential procedure based on temporal difference residuals for …
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.
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…