Predicts hospital patient discharge within 24 hours to optimize resource allocation.
problem Improving hospital resource management and patient care by prioritizing discharge.
method Used eight years of EHR data to train models predicting 24-hour discharge.
result Best models achieved AUROC of 0.85 and AUPRC of 0.53, well calibrated.
CPAS uses machine learning to plan hospital resources for COVID-19.
problem Forecasting hospital resource demands during the COVID-19 pandemic.
method Combining machine learning algorithms with diverse data sources.
result CPAS successfully managed hospital resource planning in the UK.
Study predicts future hospitalizations to manage COVID-19 patient surge.
problem Managing hospitalization needs during COVID-19 pandemic.
method Used 4 recurrent neural networks to predict hospitalization changes.
result Sequence to sequence model with attention achieved high accuracy and AUC.
Clinical notes improve ICU patient condition prediction.
problem Predicting ICU patient outcomes and resource planning.
method Joint modeling of time series data and clinical notes.
result Significant improvement in mortality prediction, decompensation modeling, and length of stay forecasting.
Algorithm detects surgical site infections from hospital data.
problem Reduces incidence of surgical site infections in hospitals.
method Machine learning algorithms trained on hospital data.
result Identifies all SSIs with minimal false positives.
Study proposes managing COVID-19 without economy shutdowns.
problem Avoiding lockdowns while maintaining healthcare system capacity.
method Detailed heterogeneous epidemiological model, calibrated to data.
result Countries can avoid lockdowns if ICU beds per million > 100.
Study forecasts cardiology admissions from cath lab using ARIMA models.
problem Complexity in managing cardiology admissions from cath lab.
method Retrospective data analysis with ARIMA, Holts method, and other models.
result ARIMA (2,0,2) (1,1,1) model selected as best fit.
Trans-GLMC tackles source heterogeneity in transfer learning for structured clusters.
problem Source heterogeneity makes it hard to use multiple related auxiliary sources effectively.
method Trans-GLMC constructs clusters of sources, then combines global fusion, within-cluster refinement, and target debiasing.
result Improves facility-specific prediction and identifies interpretable communities of hospitals with mutual transferability.
The ability to accurately forecast and control inpatient census, and thereby workloads, is a critical and longstanding problem in hospital management. Majority of current literature focuses on optimal scheduling of inpatients, but largely ignores the process of accurate estimation of the trajectory of patients througho…
Ability for accurate hospital case cost modelling and prediction is critical for efficient health care financial management and budgetary planning. A variety of regression machine learning algorithms are known to be effective for health care cost predictions. The purpose of this experiment was to build an Azure Machine…
Bayesian model forecasts hospital resource use during pandemic.
problem Modeling constrained hospital resources during pandemic.
method Approximate Bayesian Computation for an ACED-HMM.
result Mechanistic approach provides competitive probabilistic forecasts.
Unified ML approach predicts ED attendances with high accuracy.
problem Managing hospital demand at emergency departments efficiently.
method Ensemble of time series and machine learning approaches with hyperparameter tuning.
result Predictions with mean absolute error of +/- 14 and +/- 10 patients, MAE of 6.8% and 8.6%.
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…
Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a worldwide issue that affects the efficiency of hospital management and the quality of patient care. This occurs when the request for an admit ward-bed to receive a patient is delayed until an admission decision is made by a doctor. To reduce the overcrowding and waiting time of E…
Bayesian models forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations at single sites.
problem Forecasting daily COVID-19 hospitalizations at a single hospital.
method Hierarchical Bayesian models with generalized Poisson likelihood and autoregressive/Gaussian process latent processes.
result Demonstrated superior performance compared to baselines in public datasets.
Early results in using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on x-rays to diagnose disease have been promising, but it has not yet been shown that models trained on x-rays from one hospital or one group of hospitals will work equally well at different hospitals. Before these tools are used for computer-aided diagnosis i…
Natural language processing improves COVID-19 hospitalization identification.
problem Identifying patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 among those with positive SARS-CoV-2 tests.
method Used natural language processing on provider notes and structured EHR data elements to create classification algorithms.
result Classification algorithms using provider notes outperformed those using only structured EHR data elements, with AUROC of 0.894 compared to 0.841.
Adversarial method improves pneumonia classifier's performance across hospitals.
problem Robust classification of pneumonia from chest radiographs across different hospitals.
method Adversarial optimization to learn models invariant to confounders.
result Improved out-of-hospital generalization performance compared to baselines.
Analyzes COVID-19 data to predict mortality, forecast spread, and optimize resource allocation.
problem Challenges in patient triage, treatment, and care management during the pandemic.
method Integrated four-step approach combining descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
result Optimized resource allocation and informed policy decisions.
Deep neural network predicts diabetic readmission with high accuracy.
problem Predicting 30-day readmission for diabetic patients.
method Categorical embeddings and deep neural network.
result 95.2% accuracy and 97.4% AUROC on diabetic readmission data.
Study evaluates predictive models across multiple hospitals.
problem Limited data sharing hinders model performance evaluation.
method Cross-validation using eICU Collaborative Research Database.
result Models trained on multi-center data generalize well to new hospitals.
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), a sudden decline in kidney function, is associated with increased mortality, morbidity, length of stay, and hospital cost. Since AKI is sometimes preventable, there is great interest in prediction. Most existing studies consider all patients and therefore restrict to features available in the…
Proposes RTL model for sentiment classification and key word detection in online reviews.
problem Sentiment classification and key word detection in online reviews for hospitality industry.
method Regularized Text Logistic (RTL) regression model.
result RTL model achieves satisfactory classification performance and identifies key word features.
The paper uses SHAP for interpreting machine learning models in hospital data.
problem Interpreting machine learning models in healthcare.
method SHAP for feature importance and feature packing techniques.
result SHAP provides better interpretability of machine learning models in healthcare.
Neural networks outperform logistic regression for predicting HF readmission.
problem Predicting 30-day all-cause readmission in heart failure patients.
method Used a large administrative claims dataset to compare neural network models (RNNCRF) with logistic regression models (LASSO) for predicting readmission.
result RNNCRF model achieved best performance with 0.642 AUC, while logistic regression with LASSO had equal performance.
FUALA improves Federated Learning for EHR data, enhancing model uncertainty.
problem Applying ML to EHR data while maintaining privacy and accuracy.
method FUALA embeds uncertainty in federated learning, using ensembling and averaging.
result FUALA outperforms FedAvg on out-of-distribution data in EHR model predictions.
New model predicts ICU patients' stay duration efficiently.
problem Efficient ICU bed allocation under resource constraints.
method Temporal Pointwise Convolution (TPC) model combining temporal and pointwise convolutions.
result Significant performance improvements over LSTM and Transformer models.
Graph-based methods for anomaly detection and semi-supervised learning.
problem Detecting unusual clinical actions and anomalies in hospital data.
method Label propagation, harmonic solution, regularization, graph connectivity analysis.
result Effective anomaly detection and semi-supervised learning methods for healthcare data.
Privacy-preserving continual learning for hospitals.
problem Forgetting old data when updating neural networks for privacy.
method Differentially private variational inference and generative models.
result Estimates likelihood of old data given current model.
Categorical Co-Frequency Analysis clusters diagnoses to predict hospital readmissions.
problem Predicting patients' risk of 30-day hospital readmission.
method Categorical Co-Frequency Analysis (CoFA) measures diagnosis similarity using random forests.
result Identified three groups of diagnoses with varying readmission risk.
Paper shows federated learning can train models on private data.
problem Training predictive models on private hospital data.
method Distributed training in federated learning framework.
result Federated learning achieves comparable performance to traditional methods.
This study predicts diabetes complications using financial records and neural networks.
problem Managing chronic diseases like diabetes in patients.
method Used financial records from health plans, applied self-attentive recurrent neural networks.
result Successfully predicted diabetes complications with an AUC of 0.81-0.94, 60-240 days ahead.
Machine learning improves early detection of patient deterioration in Brazilian hospitals.
problem Challenges in recognizing clinical deterioration in hospital settings.
method Application of machine learning to analyze EHR data from multiple hospitals.
result Machine learning models outperformed traditional protocols by 25 percentage points in AUC.
Deep network clusters hospital patients' vital signs.
problem Sparse and irregularly collected vital sign data.
method Deep interpolation network for latent representation extraction.
result Extracted 7 distinct clusters from vital sign data.
Hospital readmissions have become one of the key measures of healthcare quality. Preventable readmissions have been identified as one of the primary targets for reducing costs and improving healthcare delivery. However, most data driven studies for understanding readmissions have produced black box classification and p…
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.
Study develops a predictive model to reduce hospital readmissions.
problem Inaccurate readmission risk prediction models in clinical settings.
method Used Genetic Algorithm and Greedy Ensemble to optimize a readmission risk prediction model.
result Developed a useful risk prediction model for reducing unplanned readmissions.
Study compares ARIMA, ETS, NNAR and hybrids for COVID-19 hospitalizations.
problem Forecasting the second wave of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Italy.
method ARIMA, ETS, NNAR, and hybrid models.
result Hybrid models outperform single models in capturing epidemic patterns.
A novel continual prediction model outperforms traditional one-time models in predicting AKI.
problem Optimally predicting AKI before it develops during a hospital stay.
method A novel continual prediction model that predicts AKI every time a patient's AKI-relevant variable changes in the EHR.
result The continual prediction model outperformed traditional one-time models, achieving a higher AUC of 0.724 compared to 0.653.
Study uses ML to predict cancer patient mortality from FN onset.
problem Predicting mortality in cancer patients with FN to improve survival.
method Multi-domain machine learning models using HCUP data.
result Clinical diagnoses have highest predictive power for FN mortality.
This work proposes a student-teacher network for predicting hospital admission locations.
problem Accurate prediction of hospital admission locations to optimize resource allocation.
method Reinforcement learning approach where a teacher network selects data batches for a student network.
result The approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods on tabular data and image recognition.
The paper improves SVM for predicting hospital readmissions by clustering patients and personalizing recommendations.
problem Predicting and preventing hospital readmissions.
method Cluster-dependent SVM with personalized prescriptions.
result Personalized recommendations reduce hospital readmissions.
Machine learning models trained on hospital data degrade over time due to changing practices.
problem Machine learning models trained on hospital data degrade over time due to changing practices.
method We augmented MIMIC with the year of care and showed that a model trained using standard feature representations will significantly degrade in quality over time.
result Clinically-oriented aggregates of raw features significantly mitigate future deterioration.
Estimates funding impact from an algorithmic relief rule, finding little effect on hospital activities.
problem Evaluating the impact of algorithmic policy decisions.
method Developed a treatment-effect estimator using algorithmic decisions as instruments.
result Funding from an algorithmic relief rule had little effect on COVID-19-related hospital activities.
New model predicts ICU patient stays more accurately.
problem Efficient ICU bed allocation under resource constraints.
method Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks (TPC) combining temporal and pointwise convolutions.
result Significant performance improvements over LSTM and Transformer models.
New method for k-modes algorithm improves clustering performance.
problem Improving initial solution selection for k-modes algorithm.
method Uses Hospital-Resident Assignment Problem to find initial cluster centroids.
result Outperforms other initialisations in most cases, especially for low-density data.
Predicting blood lactate levels helps manage ICU patients without invasive tests.
problem Predict blood lactate levels accurately in ICU patients without invasive tests.
method Defined a benchmark problem, evaluated different prediction algorithms, and investigated missing value imputation methods.
result Promising prediction results show the potential of machine learning in ICU care.
Paper introduces a new method to model epidemic dynamics with varying parameters.
problem Capturing discontinuous variations in epidemic model parameters.
method Total variation regularization with Iterated Nelder--Mead optimization.
result The method accurately models epidemic dynamics with instant changes.