Optimal healthcare investment timing in a dynamic model with mortality risk.
problem Optimal timing of healthcare investment to reduce mortality risk.
method Dynamic framework, stochastic control, optimal stopping problem, dual transformation.
result Characterization of the optimal investment boundary and numerical solutions.
This paper solves the problem of optimal dynamic consumption, investment, and healthcare spending with isoelastic utility, when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect Gompertz' law and investment opportunities are constant. Healthcare slows the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility from c…
Study optimal healthcare spending under Epstein-Zin preferences for longevity.
problem Optimizing healthcare spending to extend longevity under Epstein-Zin preferences.
method Formulated Epstein-Zin utilities over a controllable random horizon using backward stochastic differential equations and HJB equations.
result Calibrated model accurately reflects actual mortality data and compares healthcare efficacy between countries.
TRACER improves interpretability in high stakes analytics.
problem Interpreting complex models in high stakes applications.
method TRACER framework with TITV model for healthcare analytics.
result TRACER facilitates both accurate and interpretable analytics.
Research predicts healthcare index movements using historical OHLC data.
problem Predicting the directional movement of healthcare indices based on historical data.
method Supervised classification task with a one-step-ahead rolling window, using a diverse feature set including OHLC ratios.
result Robust predictive performance with accuracy exceeding 0.8 and Matthews correlation coefficients above 0.6, highlighting the importance of nowcasting features.
Isthmus platform simplifies ML/AI integration in healthcare.
problem Challenges in deploying ML models in healthcare due to data quality, regulatory, and security issues.
method Turnkey, cloud-based platform addressing data quality, clinical relevance, and regulatory compliance.
result Reduces time to market for operationalizing ML/AI in healthcare.
Enhances robo-advisors with client investment preference inference.
problem Accurately inferring clients' investment preferences from past activities.
method Stochastic control framework with continuous-time model and discounting scheme.
result Proves sufficient conditions for client investment preference identifiability.
Study investor sentiment and disagreement on StockTwits during COVID-19.
problem Understanding investor beliefs and sentiment during the pandemic.
method Analysis of social media data (StockTwits) for investor messages.
result Sentiment and disagreement sharply decreased in early March 2020, followed by a reversal.
Simulation framework assesses ROI of chronic disease adherence and policy timing.
problem Uncertainty in ROI of adherence-enhancing interventions under heterogeneous patient behavior and socioeconomic variation.
method Simulation-based framework integrating disease progression, time-varying adherence, and policy timing.
result Early and adaptive interventions yield highest ROI, exceeding 20% under certain conditions.
New method for identifying causal relationships in financial time series data.
problem Identifying causal relationships in nonstationary financial time series data.
method Refined constraint-based causal discovery algorithm (CD-NOTS) for nonstationary time series data.
result CD-NOTS effectively identifies causal connections in financial applications.
Probabilistic ML improves healthcare data analysis.
problem Insufficient understanding and incomplete data in healthcare.
method Examination of probabilistic machine learning models for healthcare challenges.
result Probabilistic models enhance healthcare data analysis and model building.
A statistical description and model of individual healthcare expenditures in the US has been developed for measuring value in healthcare. We find evidence that healthcare expenditures are quantifiable as an infusion-diffusion process, which can be thought of intuitively as a steady change in the intensity of treatment …
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.
Study identifies what healthcare tasks can and should be automated.
problem Undesired consequences of automation in healthcare.
method Quantitative analysis using machine learning models trained on practitioner and expert ratings.
result Developed an analytical tool (Automatability-Desirability Matrix) for policymakers and leaders.
MPVAA learns holistic patient representations from mixed healthcare data.
problem Learning personalized patient representations from heterogeneous healthcare data.
method Mixed Pooling Multi-View Attention Autoencoder (MPVAA) that integrates non-linear relationships among multiple data modalities.
result MPVAA generates more effective patient representations than state-of-the-art methods.
Survey on securing ML for healthcare, addressing privacy and robustness issues.
problem Security and robustness challenges in healthcare ML/DL applications.
method Overview of security and privacy methods for ML in healthcare.
result Discussion of current research challenges and future directions.
One of the main issues affecting the Italian NHS is the healthcare deficit: according to current agreements between the Italian State and its Regions, public funding of regional NHS is now limited to the amount of regional deficit and is subject to previous assessment of strict adherence to constraint on regional healt…
Study improves conformal prediction for EEG classification in healthcare, enhancing coverage.
problem Uncertainty quantification in clinical predictions, especially in distribution-shifted settings.
method Personalized calibration strategies to improve coverage of prediction sets.
result Coverage improved by over 20 percentage points with comparable prediction set sizes.
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.
Interpretability of ML models improves healthcare decisions.
problem Ensuring machine learning models are understandable for healthcare users.
method Classifying interpretability into local and global approaches, and model-specific vs. model-agnostic methods.
result Examples of practical interpretability in healthcare, including prediction and treatment optimization.
Risk management in dynamic decision problems is a primary concern in many fields, including financial investment, autonomous driving, and healthcare. The mean-variance function is one of the most widely used objective functions in risk management due to its simplicity and interpretability. Existing algorithms for mean-…
LMM predicts healthcare costs and risks with improved accuracy.
problem Wasteful healthcare spending and inefficiencies in risk prediction.
method Generative pre-trained transformer trained on patient event sequences.
result Improves cost prediction by 14.1% and chronic conditions prediction by 1.9%.
Study improves healthcare time series imputation by considering structured missingness.
problem Structured missingness in clinical data impacts time series imputation models.
method Analysis of different masking strategies on imputation methods using PhysioNet Challenge 2012 dataset.
result Masking choices significantly affect imputation accuracy and clinical prediction.
Unified framework for imputation and prediction in healthcare time series.
problem Time misalignment and data sparsity in healthcare time series.
method MAGIC (Multi-tAsk Gaussian Process for Imputation and Classification) using hierarchical multi-task Gaussian process and functional logistic regression.
result Superior predictive accuracy compared to existing methods in two healthcare applications.
Study analyzes factors influencing healthcare providers' engagement with SMS campaigns.
problem Understanding what drives healthcare providers to engage with SMS campaigns.
method Used logistic regression, random forest, and neural network models to analyze data.
result Identified key factors influencing engagement with SMS campaigns.
MCRAGE generates synthetic data to balance healthcare datasets.
problem Imbalanced datasets in healthcare lead to biased model performance for minority groups.
method Generative modeling to create synthetic data for underrepresented classes.
result MCRAGE improves model performance on minority groups.
Modeling disease progression in healthcare administrative databases is complicated by the fact that patients are observed only at irregular intervals when they seek healthcare services. In a longitudinal cohort of 76,888 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we used a continuous-time hidden Markov…
Unsupervised model detects healthcare fraud from patient visit data.
problem Detecting fraudulent healthcare bills from patient visit data.
method Uses LSTM and seq2seq models for anomaly detection, normalizes scores with EDF.
result Improves anomaly detection for high class imbalance problems.
Proposes a method to improve rare event prediction in healthcare.
problem Rare event classification in healthcare with low prevalence labels.
method Variational disentanglement approach to semi-parametric learning.
result Outperforms existing alternatives in mortality prediction on COVID-19 cohort.
VHGM-MAE generates synthetic humans from healthcare data.
problem Handling high-dimensional, sparse healthcare data with missing values.
method Masked autoencoder (MAE) tailored for healthcare data, addressing heterogeneity, missingness, and high-dimensionality.
result VHGM-MAE outperforms existing methods in missing value imputation and synthetic data generation.
From medical charts to national census, healthcare has traditionally operated under a paper-based paradigm. However, the past decade has marked a long and arduous transformation bringing healthcare into the digital age. Ranging from electronic health records, to digitized imaging and laboratory reports, to public healt…
Hybrid Bayesian-conformal framework improves uncertainty quantification in healthcare predictions.
problem Jointly satisfying distribution-free coverage guarantees and risk-adaptive precision in clinical decision-making.
method Integrates Bayesian hierarchical random forests with group-aware conformal calibration, using posterior uncertainties to weight conformity scores.
result Achieves target coverage (94.3% vs 95% target) with adaptive precision, 21% narrower intervals for low-uncertainty cases.
Proposes a tuning-free dynamic pricing method for linear valuation models.
problem Dynamic pricing in linear valuation models with unknown market noise distribution.
method Shape-constrained isotonic regression under weaker Hölder continuity assumptions.
result Demonstrates lower empirical regret compared to existing methods.
Framework for AI healthcare products from concept to market.
problem Failure of AI products to reach clinics despite promising potential.
method Decision-making framework for AI healthcare product development.
result Guides through a three-phase process to market launch of validated AI products.
The global financial crisis, beginning in 2008, took an historic toll on national economies around the world. Following equity market crashes, unemployment rates rose significantly in many countries: Italy was among those. What will be the impact of such large shocks on Italian healthcare finances? An empirical model f…
Deep generative model for healthcare data identifies coherent substructures and mutational clusters.
problem Analytical challenges in healthcare data, including sparsity, missingness, and small sample sizes.
method Proposes a deep generative Bayesian model with collapsed Gibbs sampling for multinomial count data.
result Identifies coherent substructures and biologically meaningful mutational clusters in cancer data.
This tutorial evaluates machine learning for healthcare applications.
problem Unrealistic expectations in healthcare AI development.
method Practical guidance on performance evaluation criteria and common mistakes.
result Better understanding and avoidance of common traps in AI healthcare.
RL platform enhances user journeys in healthcare apps.
problem Improving user experience and personalization in healthcare apps.
method Reinforcement learning framework for adaptive interventions.
result Significant increase in basket size through personalized recommendations.
ConCare personalizes healthcare predictions by capturing EMR features.
problem Predicting patient outcomes from EMR data with personalization.
method Captures personal characteristics and time-aware distribution in EMR data.
result Improves healthcare prediction accuracy through personalized health context.
Strategic feature selection in high-stakes domains like healthcare.
problem Strategic manipulation of input features in algorithmic predictors.
method Formal study of strategic classification through feature selection and ridge regularization.
result Excluding individual features based on manipulability is generally suboptimal.
Super learner with Huber loss improves cost prediction and causal effect estimation in healthcare expenditure data.
problem Challenges in modeling healthcare expenditure distributions with standard super learning methods.
method Proposes a super learner using Huber loss, a robust loss function that down-weights outliers.
result Demonstrates appreciable finite-sample gains in cost prediction and causal effect estimation.
The paper studies causal effects of multiple treatments in healthcare databases with rare outcomes.
problem Estimating causal effects of multiple treatments in healthcare databases with rare outcomes.
method The paper designs three sets of simulations and compares the operating characteristics of three types of methods: Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART), regression adjustment on multivariate spline of generalized propensity scores (RAMS), and inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) with multinomial logistic regression or generalized boosted models.
result BART and RAMS provide lower bias and mean squared error compared to IPTW methods.
A broad spectrum of data from different modalities are generated in the healthcare domain every day, including scalar data (e.g., clinical measures collected at hospitals), tensor data (e.g., neuroimages analyzed by research institutes), graph data (e.g., brain connectivity networks), and sequence data (e.g., digital f…
Researchers propose a new way to handle missing data in healthcare datasets for better reinforcement learning outcomes.
problem Handling missing data in irregularly sampled clinical datasets for reinforcement learning.
method Alternative representation of patient state that incorporates missingness information.
result Our alternative representation yields consistently better results for optimal control compared to traditional methods.
A new method uses Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for imputation and augmentation of healthcare data.
problem Missing values in clinical studies lead to biased results and loss of statistical power.
method Folded Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (F-HMC) with Bayesian inference to handle high-dimensional, small sample size datasets.
result The method enriches the quality of data in precision, accuracy, recall, F1 score, and propensity metric.
Study fair healthcare predictions without harming patients.
problem Balancing fairness and avoiding unnecessary harm in healthcare predictions.
method Formalizes Pareto-optimal approach to minimize risk disparity without causing harm, dynamically re-balancing subgroup risks.
result Demonstrates a method to train neural networks achieving fair predictions without unnecessary harm.
Deep learning analyzes healthcare provider actions and patient outcomes.
problem Understanding provider behavior in non-randomized healthcare settings.
method Deep causal behavioral policy learning (DC-BPL) using transformer architecture.
result Optimal provider policies identified for specific patient types.
Split learning improves deep learning in healthcare by sharing data.
problem Data scarcity in healthcare limits deep learning applications.
method Distributed learning approach for collaborative training of deep neural networks.
result Split learning outperformed non-collaborative methods in both binary and multi-label classification tasks.