Reducing the incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) is one of the objectives of the French nosocomial infection control program. Manual monitoring of SSIs is carried out each year by the hospital hygiene team and surgeons at the University Hospital of Bordeaux. Our goal was to develop an automatic detection algor…
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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.
Monitoring patients in ICU is a challenging and high-cost task. Hence, predicting the condition of patients during their ICU stay can help provide better acute care and plan the hospital's resources. There has been continuous progress in machine learning research for ICU management, and most of this work has focused on…
In the scenario of real-time monitoring of hospital patients, high-quality inference of patients' health status using all information available from clinical covariates and lab tests is essential to enable successful medical interventions and improve patient outcomes. Developing a computational framework that can learn…
Fine particulate matter (PM) is one of the criteria air pollutants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. There is strong evidence that ambient exposure to (PM) increases risk of mortality and hospitalization. Large scale epidemiological studies on the health effects of P…
Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) require constant and close supervision. To assist clinical staff in this task, hospitals use monitoring systems that trigger audiovisual alarms if their algorithms indicate that a patient's condition may be worsening. However, current monitoring systems are extremely sensitive …
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.
Study compares geostatistical and machine learning models for PM2.5 prediction.
problem Improving accuracy of hourly PM2.5 maps across California.
method Traditional geostatistical methods (kriging, land use regression) and machine learning models (neural networks, random forests, support vector machines) were evaluated.
result Ensemble model enhanced predictive accuracy of PM2.5 concentration by correcting PurpleAir data bias.
Machine learning approach to dynamic risk modeling of mortality in COVID-19: a UK Biobank studycs.LG
Study develops a dynamic risk model for COVID-19 mortality using UK Biobank data.
problem Developing tools to monitor high-risk patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
method Data-driven random forest classification model using baseline characteristics and symptoms.
result Model predicts COVID-19 mortality with excellent performance (AUC: 0.91), identifying novel predictors.
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.
Confounding variables can degrade generalization performance of radiological deep learning modelscs.CV
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…
The presence of bacteria or fungi in the bloodstream of patients is abnormal and can lead to life-threatening conditions. A computational model based on a bidirectional long short-term memory artificial neural network, is explored to assist doctors in the intensive care unit to predict whether examination of blood cult…
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.
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.
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.
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…
Recent works have shown that applying Machine Learning to Electronic Health Records (EHR) can strongly accelerate precision medicine. This requires developing models based on diverse EHR sources. Federated Learning (FL) has enabled predictive modeling using distributed training which lifted the need of sharing data and…
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.
Regular medical records are useful for medical practitioners to analyze and monitor patient health status especially for those with chronic disease, but such records are usually incomplete due to unpunctuality and absence of patients. In order to resolve the missing data problem over time, tensor-based model is suggest…
Humans approximately spend a third of their life sleeping, which makes monitoring sleep an integral part of well-being. In this paper, a 34-layer deep residual ConvNet architecture for end-to-end sleep staging is proposed. The network takes raw single channel electroencephalogram (Fpz-Cz) signal as input and yields hyp…
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.
Novel hybrid bilinear model improves epilepsy diagnosis accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
method Hybrid bilinear deep learning network using sEEG and audiovisual monitoring.
result Obtained F1-scores of 97.4% and 97.2% on two seizure datasets.
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.
Hospital Readmission Prediction - Applying Hierarchical Sparsity Norms for Interpretable Modelscs.LG
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…
The high rate of false alarms in intensive care units (ICUs) is one of the top challenges of using medical technology in hospitals. These false alarms are often caused by patients' movements, detachment of monitoring sensors, or different sources of noise and interference that impact the collected signals from differen…
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.
A large volume of research has considered the creation of predictive models for clinical data; however, much existing literature reports results using only a single source of data. In this work, we evaluate the performance of models trained on the publicly-available eICU Collaborative Research Database. We show that cr…
Machine learning models can be used for pattern recognition in medical data in order to improve patient outcomes, such as the prediction of in-hospital mortality. Deep learning models, in particular, require large amounts of data for model training. However, the data is often collected at different hospitals and sharin…
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.
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.
To address potential gaps noted in patient monitoring in the hospital, a novel patient behavior detection system using mmWave radar and deep convolution neural network (CNN), which supports the simultaneous recognition of multiple patients' behaviors in real-time, is proposed. In this study, we use an mmWave radar to t…
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.
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 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.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) commonly occurs in hospitalized patients and can lead to serious medical complications. In order to optimally predict AKI before it develops at any time during a hospital stay, we present a novel framework in which AKI is continually predicted automatically from EHR data over the entire hospit…
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…
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%.
Febrile neutropenia (FN) has been associated with high mortality, especially among adults with cancer. Understanding the patient and provider level heterogeneity in FN hospital admissions has potential to inform personalized interventions focused on increasing survival of individuals with FN. We leverage machine learni…
Categorical Co-Frequency Analysis: Clustering Diagnosis Codes to Predict Hospital Readmissionsstat.AP
Accurately predicting patients' risk of 30-day hospital readmission would enable hospitals to efficiently allocate resource-intensive interventions. We develop a new method, Categorical Co-Frequency Analysis (CoFA), for clustering diagnosis codes from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) according to the …
AI systems that explain their decisions can be monitored for harmful intentions.
problem Monitoring AI systems' decision-making processes for harmful intentions is imperfect and can miss some misbehavior.
method Monitoring the chain of thought (CoT) of AI systems that communicate in human language.
result CoT monitoring is a promising but fragile approach to AI safety.
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…
Electronic medical records (EMRs) supports the development of machine learning algorithms for predicting disease incidence, patient response to treatment, and other healthcare events. But insofar most algorithms have been centralized, taking little account of the decentralized, non-identically independently distributed…
Study evaluates cross-validation methods for clinical ECG classification, finding leave-source-out more reliable.
problem Overoptimistic cross-validation estimates for new patient sources.
method Empirical evaluation of K-fold and leave-source-out cross-validation methods.
result Leave-source-out cross-validation provides more reliable performance estimates.
Tree-based machine learning models such as random forests, decision trees, and gradient boosted trees are the most popular non-linear predictive models used in practice today, yet comparatively little attention has been paid to explaining their predictions. Here we significantly improve the interpretability of tree-bas…
Tree-based model averaging improves CATE estimation from diverse sites.
problem Limited sample size and privacy concerns prevent accurate personalized treatment effect estimation.
method Tree-based model averaging approach to estimate CATEs from multiple heterogeneous sites.
result Improved accuracy in estimating conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) across sites.
Simple online monitor detects unsafe LLM outputs.
problem LLMs generate unsafe outputs despite training.
method Thresholding external verifier signal to decide alarms.
result Simple design competitive with advanced methods.
Study improves mortality prediction in hospital patients using comprehensive feature engineering.
problem Accurate prediction of all-cause in-hospital mortality in healthcare.
method Comprehensive feature engineering approach using vital signs, laboratory results, and demographic data.
result Random Forest model achieved highest performance with AUC of 0.94, significantly outperforming other models.