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48 results for heart attack outcomes

New scalable method balances hospital profit status and heart attack outcomes.

problem Balancing covariate distributions and minimizing weight dispersion in large datasets.
method Combines kernel basis expansion and convex optimization for efficient and flexible weighting.
result For-profit hospitals use interventional cardiology similarly to other hospitals but have higher mortality and readmission rates.

The study uses transfer learning to compare surgical outcomes across racial/ethnic subgroups.

problem Difficulty in comparing surgical outcomes due to racial/ethnic and geographic differences.
method Causal inference framework and transfer learning to incorporate data from multiple populations.
result Racial and ethnic differences in surgical outcomes are found, with non-Hispanic Black patients experiencing wide variability.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death, and experts estimate that approximately half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people who have not been flagged as "at risk." Thus, there is an urgent need to improve the accuracy of heart disease diagnosis. To this end, we investigate the potential of using data ana…

2018-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We study how language on social media is linked to diseases such as atherosclerotic heart disease (AHD), diabetes and various types of cancer. Our proposed model leverages state-of-the-art sentence embeddings, followed by a regression model and clustering, without the need of additional labelled data. It allows to pred…

2019-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines machine learning classification algorithms and their generalizability using Framingham Heart Study data.

problem Addressing biases and generalizability issues in machine learning classification algorithms.
method Comparison of eight machine learning classification algorithms on Framingham Heart Study data.
result Double discriminant scoring of type I is the most generalizable algorithm.

Paper evaluates robustness of NAS against poisoning attacks.

problem Robustness of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) against poisoning attacks.
method Evaluation of Efficient NAS (ENAS) against carefully designed ineffective operations in poisoning attacks.
result Demonstrates how poisoning attacks exploit design flaws in ENAS controller.

The paper investigates causal relationships in heart failure prediction using machine learning.

problem Understanding the causal relationships between clinical variables and heart failure.
method Proposes a new computational framework for causal structure discovery (CSD) of mixed-type clinical variables for binary disease outcomes.
result Feature importance from nonlinear classifiers strongly correlates with causal strength of variables, but not differentiating cause and effect.

Proposes a framework for personalized treatment recommendations using observational data.

problem Estimating patient-level treatment effects from observational data.
method Integrates existing methods for learning patient-level causal models.
result Improves patient outcomes in heart failure patients with acute kidney injury.

The paper tackles optimal policy learning with asymmetric counterfactual utilities in healthcare decisions.

problem Learning optimal policies from observed data with asymmetric counterfactual utilities.
method The approach involves identifying and minimizing the maximum expected utility loss using statistical decision theory and solving intermediate classification problems.
result One can learn minimax loss decision rules from observed data.

Study on reward poisoning attacks on CMAB, revealing attackability depends on adversary's knowledge.

problem Reward poisoning attacks on Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits (CMAB).
method Provided a sufficient and necessary condition for attackability, devised an attack algorithm.
result Attackability of CMAB depends on adversary's knowledge of the bandit instance.

DefenseVGAE defends graph neural networks against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of GNNs to adversarial structural perturbations.
method Variational Graph Autoencoder (VGAE) to reconstruct graph structure.
result DefenseVGAE reduces adversarial perturbations and boosts GCN performance.

This work proposes a robust ensemble method for decision trees that resists adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial attacks on machine learning models, especially decision trees.
method Feature partitioning to train robust ensembles and approximate certification methods.
result The proposed ensemble method can resist evasion attacks by a majority of its models.

Machine learning models, especially deep neural networks have been shown to be susceptible to privacy attacks such as membership inference where an adversary can detect whether a data point was used for training a black-box model. Such privacy risks are exacerbated when a model's predictions are used on an unseen data …

2019-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper presents a method for building patient-based networks that we call Precision disease networks, and its uses for predicting medical outcomes. Our methodology consists of building networks, one for each patient or case, that describes the dis-ease evolution of the patient (PDN) and store the networks as a set …

2019-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The results of a learning process depend on the input data. There are cases in which an adversary can strategically tamper with the input data to affect the outcome of the learning process. While some datasets are difficult to attack, many others are susceptible to manipulation. A resourceful attacker can tamper with l…

2019-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores how mining costs, rewards, and blockchain security are interconnected.

problem Understanding the interdependencies between mining costs, mining rewards, and blockchain security.
method Theoretical derivation and empirical analysis using daily crypto market data and autoregressive distributed lag approach.
result Cryptocurrency price and mining rewards are intrinsically linked to blockchain security outcomes.

Framework for imputing missing heart data to simulate brain-heart interactions.

problem Lack of multi-modal patient data representing heart and brain processes.
method Probabilistic framework for joint cardiac data imputation and mechanistic model personalization.
result Accurate imputation of missing cardiac features in incomplete datasets.

Stochastic LWTA networks resist adversarial attacks while maintaining accuracy.

problem Adversarial robustness of neural networks.
method Replaced ReLU with stochastic LWTA activations, trained with Variational Bayesian and PGD.
result Stochastic LWTA networks achieve state-of-the-art robustness against adversarial attacks.

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, leading to critical errors.

problem Vulnerability of deep learning models to adversarial attacks in critical applications.
method Implemented various defenses (adversarial training, dimensionality reduction, prediction similarity) against adversarial attacks.
result Models became more robust against adversarial attacks without significant loss in accuracy.

We consider the problem of locating a point-source heart arrhythmia using data from a standard diagnostic procedure, where a reference catheter is placed in the heart, and arrival times from a second diagnostic catheter are recorded as the diagnostic catheter moves around within the heart. We model this situation as a …

2018-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved heart rate and activity recognition with low-power wrist sensors.

problem Challenges in battery life, cost, and sensor performance in wrist-worn sensing applications.
method Used photoplethysmography (PPG) for heart rate and activity recognition, applying transfer learning and CNNs.
result Low sampling frequencies (5 Hz and 10 Hz) achieved good performance in heart rate and activity recognition.

Framework assesses treatment effects by risk groups in observational studies.

problem Evaluating treatment effects in observational studies with risk stratification.
method Five-step framework for risk-based assessment of treatment effect heterogeneity.
result Low-risk patients received negligible absolute benefits, while high-risk patients had pronounced effects.

Continuous, ubiquitous monitoring through wearable sensors has the potential to collect useful information about users' context. Heart rate is an important physiologic measure used in a wide variety of applications, such as fitness tracking and health monitoring. However, wearable sensors that monitor heart rate, such …

2019-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a novel anomaly detection method for echocardiogram videos.

problem Anomaly detection in echocardiogram videos.
method Dynamic Variational Trajectory Models (TVAE-C, TVAE-R, TVAE-S) trained on healthy infant echocardiogram videos.
result Superior performance in detecting congenital heart defects and pulmonary hypertension.

AI-assisted heart disease diagnosis reduces misdiagnosis and saves lives.

problem Misdiagnosis of heart disease leads to unnecessary deaths.
method Developed an AI application using ML and DNN algorithms on a dataset from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
result DNN model achieved a 92% accuracy rate, reducing misdiagnosis.

We have developed a strategy for the analysis of newly available binary data to improve outcome predictions based on existing data (binary or non-binary). Our strategy involves two modeling approaches for the newly available data, one combining binary covariate selection via LASSO with logistic regression and one based…

2008-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Motion analysis is used in computer vision to understand the behaviour of moving objects in sequences of images. Optimising the interpretation of dynamic biological systems requires accurate and precise motion tracking as well as efficient representations of high-dimensional motion trajectories so that these can be use…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study predicts heart failure patient survival using stacked ensemble ML.

problem Predicting survival of heart failure patients.
method Collect and analyze patient data, apply SMOTE, use K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means clustering, Random Forest, XGBoost, Decision Tree, and propose a stacked ensemble model.
result Supervised ML algorithms outperform unsupervised models, achieving high accuracy and F1 score.