Large dataset for medical abstracts classified by sentence role.
problem Efficiently classify long medical abstracts for researchers.
method Labeled dataset of 200k abstracts, each with 2.3M sentences.
result Improved sentence classification for medical literature.
Neural network model improves sentence classification in medical abstracts.
problem Individual sentence classification misses contextual information.
method Combines ANN effectiveness with structured prediction for joint sentence classification.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on medical abstract datasets.
This work abstracts deep neural networks into concept graphs for better interpretability in medical tasks.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models, especially in medical domains.
method Developed a graphical representation of medical image processing models to understand concept-based reasoning.
result Extracted a concept-level graph that reveals the decision-making process of deep learning models.
Paper models Alzheimer's disease using genotypic, phenotypic, and cognitive data.
problem Early detection and risk factor identification for Alzheimer's disease.
method Probabilistic generative subspace learning from multi-view medical data.
result Proposes a method to model Alzheimer's disease that combines genotypic, phenotypic, and cognitive data.
Generates biomedical abstracts from titles, years, and keywords.
problem Difficulties in understanding biomedical research papers due to specialized language.
method Conditional transformer-based language model with metadata conditioning.
result Generated abstracts are more relevant and non-trivial than GPT-2.
Active learning improves medical image segmentation by selecting optimal samples.
problem Limited manual annotations in medical datasets.
method Maximizing information at network abstraction layer and using Borda-count for sample selection.
result Improved segmentation performance with active learning.
UOLO detects and segments objects in medical images, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
problem Automatic detection and segmentation of objects in medical images.
method UOLO combines object segmentation and detection using a novel loss function.
result UOLO achieves state-of-the-art performance on optic disc and fovea detection and segmentation from retinal images.
ACNN improves medical image segmentation with full resolution and higher IoUs.
problem Reduced spatial resolution in current DCNNs hinders medical image segmentation.
method Proposes ACNN using atrous convolution, cascaded atrous II-blocks, residual learning, and Instance Normalization.
result ACNN achieves higher IoUs than U-Net and Deeplabv3+ with fewer parameters.
The episodic, irregular and asynchronous nature of medical data render them difficult substrates for standard machine learning algorithms. We would like to abstract away this difficulty for the class of time-stamped categorical variables (or events) by modeling them as a renewal process and inferring a probability dens…
Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and a subject of intense scientific interest. Biomedical literature mining can aid DDI research by extracting evidence for large numbers of potential interactions from published literature and clinical databases. Though DDI is investigated in domai…
Study reveals differences in medical image models' hidden representation refinement.
problem Understanding how intrinsic dimensionality changes in neural network hidden representations across different domains.
method Analysis of 11 natural and medical image datasets using 6 network architectures.
result Medical image models refine hidden representations earlier, suggesting differences in feature abstraction.
A new estimator reduces variance in slate bandit OPE.
problem Large action spaces in slate bandits cause high variance in OPE.
method Develops Latent IPS (LIPS) to optimize slate abstractions for low variance and bias.
result LIPS substantially outperforms existing estimators in scenarios with non-linear rewards and large slate spaces.
Machine learning reduces workload in healthcare systematic reviews by 70%.
problem Efficiently screening abstracts for systematic reviews in healthcare.
method Training SVM classifiers on labeled abstracts to classify RCTs.
result SVM classifier achieved 90% accuracy and 0.84 F1 score.
Deep learning models improved sentence similarity in medical records.
problem Improving sentence similarity in electronic medical records.
method Developed models using traditional machine learning and deep learning approaches, pre-trained sentence embeddings on biomedical corpora.
result Ensembled model achieved a Person correlation coefficient of 0.8528.
Improves medication name inference for telemedicine and conversational agents.
problem Challenges in mapping user-friendly medication names to standardized ones.
method Entity-boosted two-tower neural network for ranking SMN to DMP.
result State-of-the-art results achieved with improved attention-based ranking.
Medical deconfounder uses EHRs to estimate treatment effects without confounders.
problem Bias in assessing treatment effects from EHRs due to unobserved confounders.
method Develops a machine learning algorithm (medical deconfounder) to adjust for confounders.
result Medical deconfounder produces more accurate treatment effect estimates and identifies effective medications.
Paper uses weakly-supervised clustering to automatically create network protocol abstractions.
problem Manual definition of abstraction by domain experts is time-consuming.
method Weakly supervised clustering algorithm for automatic abstraction.
result The method successfully matches the reference abstraction with minimal labeled examples.
Proposes guidelines for developing medical AI products.
problem Lack of clear pathways for regulating medical AI.
method Statistical risk perspective and deep understanding of machine learning methodologies.
result Enhanced development of medical AI products and regulations.
Two large medical dialogue datasets for improving healthcare.
problem Improving healthcare through better dialogue systems.
method Building two large-scale medical dialogue datasets: MedDialog-EN and MedDialog-CN.
result The datasets are the largest medical dialogue datasets to date.
Abstracts index for ML4H workshop at NeurIPS 2019.
problem No specific problem stated; index of accepted abstracts.
method Not specified; index of accepted abstracts.
result No specific result stated.
Bayesian LSTMs improve medical time series classification accuracy.
problem Uncertainty in machine learning decisions for medical practitioners.
method Used Bayesian LSTMs to classify medical time series datasets.
result Bayesian LSTMs provide significant accuracy improvements over standard LSTMs.
Paper tackles medical question similarity using domain-relevant embeddings.
problem Identifying same-question pairs in medical contexts.
method Semi-supervised pre-training of a neural network on medical question-answer pairs.
result Our model achieves 82.6% accuracy on medical question similarity task.
The paper aims to mathematically define and learn abstractions from data.
problem Defining and learning abstractions from data.
method Characterize abstractions as summaries for answering queries, define leakiness as a loss function, and generalize classical statistics.
result A mathematical theory of abstraction can be learned from data.
Automated system extracts medication regimens from medical conversations.
problem Extract relevant medication information from medical conversations.
method QA task approach, combined QA and Information Extraction, data augmentation, public embeddings, pretraining.
result Improved accuracy in extracting dosage and frequency from 54.28 and 37.13 to 89.57 and 45.94.
Unified framework for causal models at different levels of abstraction.
problem Relating causal models at varying levels of abstraction.
method Categorical framework using natural transformations between Markov functors.
result Generalized and unified causal abstractions with categorical proofs.
Modeling T2DM patients' blood glucose with ML for better insulin control.
problem Managing blood glucose levels in T2DM patients with insulin.
method Markov Decision Process (MDP) with model-based reinforcement learning.
result Optimal insulin treatment policy derived from MDP solution.
Abstract MDPs enable strategic exploration and fast reward transfer in complex environments.
problem Challenging to learn accurate MDPs for high-dimensional states.
method Learn an abstract MDP over low-dimensional coarse states, using an abstraction function.
result Achieves superhuman performance on Pitfall! and higher reward with fewer samples.
MedGCN uses graph convolutional networks to recommend medications and estimate lab tests.
problem Automatically recommend medications and estimate lab tests for cost savings and better patient care.
method Integrates heterogeneous graph relations, learns node embeddings with graph convolutional networks, and uses cross regularization for multi-task learning.
result MedGCN outperforms state-of-the-art models in both medication recommendation and lab test imputation on real-world datasets.
A GMM-based method generates new 3D structures from medical images.
problem Generating new medical images from limited data and different modalities.
method Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) for point-cloud generation.
result Generated point-clouds closely match training samples from the same class.
Strong baseline for medical imaging domain adaptation.
problem Improving generalization in medical imaging across different datasets.
method Training on diverse chest X-ray datasets.
result Empirical demonstration of model generalization to out-of-sample domains.
PALM learns abstract models for efficient planning and task transfer.
problem Efficiently learning and transferring hierarchical models for planning.
method PALM uses a new formal structure (L-AMDP) to learn independent, modular models at multiple levels of abstraction.
result PALM integrates planning and execution, facilitating rapid learning of abstract models.
This paper benchmarks privacy-preserving machine learning on medical images.
problem Ensuring privacy in medical image analysis while maintaining model accuracy.
method Comparing Local-DP and DP-SGD for differential privacy in medical imagery.
result Theoretical privacy guarantees do not fully align with real-world performance.
Machine learning constructs problem-based medical records from electronic health records.
problem Difficulty in finding relevant medical information for clinical questions.
method Knowledge base completion using machine learning on electronic health records.
result Automatic construction of problem-based groupings of medications, procedures, and lab tests.
ME2Vec learns medical entity vectors from EHR data.
problem Learning structured information from EHR data.
method Graph-based medical entity embedding using diverse graph embedding techniques.
result ME2Vec outperforms baselines in disease diagnosis prediction.
Tabular Q-Learning with learned state abstractions solves continuous control tasks.
problem Challenging reinforcement learning problems in continuous control.
method Learned state abstraction to transform continuous state-space into discrete.
result Tabular Q-Learning with learned abstractions achieves efficient learning in unseen tasks.
Study investigates how simple speech sounds can form abstract categories.
problem How do abstract categories like phonemes emerge from speech exposure?
method Used modeling techniques to test Memory-Based Learning and Error-Correction Learning.
result Error-Correction Learning models can learn abstractions, identifying phone inventory and grouping.
New approach to abstract neural network representations using renormalization group.
problem Developing truly abstract representations in neural networks.
method Renormalization group approach to expand representations to encompass broader data sets.
result Representations in neural networks become more abstract as data breadth increases and depth increases.
MI-GAN generates synthetic medical images for supervised analysis.
problem Lack of large datasets and overfitting in medical image analysis.
method Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for generating synthetic medical images and masks.
result MI-GAN achieves state-of-the-art performance with dice coefficient of 0.837 on STARE and 0.832 on DRIVE datasets.
Abstract Neural Networks (ANNs) improve DNN verification efficiency.
problem Efficiently verify safety-critical DNNs without slowing exponentially.
method Introduces ANNs that use abstract domains and activation functions to overapproximate DNNs.
result ANNs can soundly overapproximate DNNs with fewer nodes, improving verification efficiency.
Enhances medical code predictions for multi-morbidity patients using text classification.
problem Improving accuracy in predicting medical codes for patients with multiple illnesses.
method Used machine learning techniques, including multi-label medical text classification, to enhance predictions.
result High dimensional embeddings pre-trained on health data significantly improve multi-label classification performance.
Algorithm finds latent structure in value functions for improved reinforcement learning.
problem Finding latent structure in value functions for efficient reinforcement learning.
method Proposes a practical algorithm using two posterior distributions over state abstractions and abstract-state values.
result Substantial performance gains in multi-task settings where tasks share a common, low-dimensional representation.
Paper detects bias in AI medical models using CART.
problem Ensuring fairness in AI medical decision support systems.
method Uses Classification and Regression Trees (CART) algorithm to identify bias.
result Validated the CART approach in both synthetic and real-world data.
GANs improve medical image analysis through de-noising, segmentation, and data synthesis.
problem Chronic scarcity of labeled medical images.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and their extensions.
result GANs can synthesize realistic medical images to address data scarcity.
A distinctive property of human and animal intelligence is the ability to form abstractions by neglecting irrelevant information which allows to separate structure from noise. From an information theoretic point of view abstractions are desirable because they allow for very efficient information processing. In artifici…
This paper uses group theory to create data-free, feature-free clustering.
problem Creating data-free, feature-free hierarchical clustering.
method Symmetry-driven hierarchical clustering using group theory.
result A new clustering framework that is globally hierarchical and data-free.
New algorithm learns abstractions from experience to simplify complex tasks.
problem Solving complex problems in environments with continuous state spaces.
method Uses MDP homomorphisms to find abstract MDPs and guides exploration.
result Demonstrates task transfer method outperforms deep Q-networks.
Proves embedding theorem for definable manifolds.
problem Embedding abstract-definable Cp manifolds into Euclidean space. method Proves Whitney embedding theorem for definable manifolds.
result Abstract-definable Cp manifolds are Cp embedded into RN. Inpatient2Vec learns representations for inpatients with multi-layer self-attention.
problem Lack of specialized RL methods for inpatient data with strong temporal relations and consistent diagnoses.
method Inpatient2Vec uses a multi-layer self-attention mechanism with two training tasks to learn medical activity, hospital day, and diagnosis representations for inpatients.
result Inpatient2Vec outperforms baselines on semantic similarity and clinical events prediction tasks.