Proposes a new method for medical diagnosis using network-based representation learning.
problem Improving medical diagnosis accuracy through better data representation.
method Heterogeneous network-based model and modified metapath2vec algorithm for learning latent node representations.
result Significant performance boost in symptom/disease classification and disease prediction tasks.
Counterfactual diagnosis improves medical accuracy and safety.
problem Existing diagnostic algorithms struggle with distinguishing correlation from causation.
method Reformulated diagnosis as a counterfactual inference task and derived new counterfactual diagnostic algorithms.
result Counterfactual diagnostic algorithms significantly improve accuracy and safety compared to standard Bayesian algorithms.
Study on diagnosing unseen medical conditions using open-set learning.
problem Training models for unseen medical conditions is impractical.
method Frame diagnosis as an open-set learning problem, compare state-of-the-art approaches, and experiment with distributed training data.
result Explicitly modeling unseen conditions leads to consistent gains, but optimal training strategy varies.
Paper tackles medical image diagnosis with unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Limited labeled samples and label noise in medical images.
method Collaborative Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) algorithm.
result Empirical results show superiority of the proposed method.
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.
Improves reliability of medical diagnosis uncertainty estimates.
problem Label uncertainty in medical diagnosis.
method Post-hoc alpha-calibration method for neural network classifiers. result Significantly enhances reliability of uncertainty estimates.
An integrated approach is proposed across visual and textual data to both determine and justify a medical diagnosis by a neural network. As deep learning techniques improve, interest grows to apply them in medical applications. To enable a transition to workflows in a medical context that are aided by machine learning,…
Effective medical test suggestions benefit both patients and physicians to conserve time and improve diagnosis accuracy. In this work, we show that an agent can learn to suggest effective medical tests. We formulate the problem as a stage-wise Markov decision process and propose a reinforcement learning method to train…
According to the WHO, Cerebrovascular Stroke, or CS, is the second largest cause of death worldwide. Current diagnosis of CS relies on labor and cost intensive neuroimaging techniques, unsuitable for areas with inadequate access to quality medical facilities. Thus, there is a great need for an efficient diagnosis alter…
New method calibrates neural network uncertainty for medical images.
problem Uncalibrated probabilistic outputs from deep neural networks in medical diagnosis.
method Functional space variational inference for Bayesian neural networks.
result Better calibrated uncertainty estimates at lower computational cost.
Representation learning (RL) plays an important role in extracting proper representations from complex medical data for various analyzing tasks, such as patient grouping, clinical endpoint prediction and medication recommendation. Medical data can be divided into two typical categories, outpatient and inpatient, that h…
Study uses multi-task Bayesian optimization to speed up SVM hyperparameter tuning for nodules diagnosis.
problem Redundant and time-consuming hyperparameter tuning for SVM classifiers in medical imaging.
method Employed multi-task Bayesian optimization to accelerate hyperparameter search.
result Multi-task Bayesian optimization significantly accelerates hyperparameter search.
While facial biometrics has been widely used for identification purpose, it has recently been researched as medical biometrics for a range of diseases. In this chapter, we investigate the facial landmark detection for atypical 3D facial modelling in facial palsy cases, while potentially such modelling can assist the me…
Zero-Shot Learning helps learn new concepts without examples, useful for COVID-19 diagnosis.
problem Learning new concepts without examples, especially in medical imaging.
method Uses existing knowledge and auxiliary information to predict unknown concepts.
result Effective in diagnosing COVID-19 from chest X-rays.
Deep learning improves medical ultrasound image segmentation accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in medical ultrasound image segmentation.
method Categorizes deep learning methods into six groups and analyzes current representative algorithms.
result Current methods show significant improvement in image segmentation accuracy.
Novel fusion network combines polarization and radiomics features for liver cancer classification.
problem Challenges in histopathological diagnosis of HCC and ICC.
method Two-tier fusion approach: feature-level and classification-level.
result Significantly enhances classification accuracy, even at reduced resolutions.
New benchmark evaluates BDL methods in medical retinopathy diagnosis.
problem Evaluate robustness and scalability of BDL methods in medical applications.
method Developed a new benchmark with real-world diabetic retinopathy tasks.
result Some BDL techniques overfit uncertainty to datasets, underperforming on new benchmark.
Deep tabular models outperform GBDT in medical diagnosis tasks.
problem Transfer learning for tabular data in medical diagnosis.
method Proposes a pseudo-feature method for transfer learning between different feature sets.
result Tabular neural networks outperform GBDT in medical diagnosis tasks.
Survey on understanding neural networks for medical applications.
problem Black-box nature of deep neural networks hinders their use in critical applications.
method Comprehensive review of interpretability studies in neural networks.
result Interpretability research is crucial for the acceptance of neural networks in medical diagnosis.
Study improves CAD diagnosis accuracy by selecting significant features.
problem Improving accuracy of CAD diagnosis through feature selection.
method Integrated machine learning approach using random trees (RTs), C5.0, SVM, and CHAID.
result Random trees model outperforms other models in CAD diagnosis.
A primary goal of computational phenotype research is to conduct medical diagnosis. In hospital, physicians rely on massive clinical data to make diagnosis decisions, among which laboratory tests are one of the most important resources. However, the longitudinal and incomplete nature of laboratory test data casts a sig…
DeTraC CNN detects COVID-19 from chest X-rays with high accuracy.
problem Limited availability of annotated medical images for COVID-19 diagnosis.
method Transfer learning and class decomposition mechanism in DeTraC CNN.
result 95.12% accuracy in detecting COVID-19 from normal and severe cases.
Bayesian CNN estimates uncertainty in COVID-19 detection.
problem Uncertainty in deep learning predictions for medical diagnosis.
method Drop-weight based Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks (BCNN).
result Uncertainty correlates with prediction accuracy.
Unsupervised anomaly detection aids doctors in evaluating X-ray images of hands.
problem Lack of labeled medical data and ambiguous symptoms in X-ray images.
method Adopting state-of-the-art unsupervised learning methods for anomaly detection and preprocessing.
result Without preprocessing, unsupervised methods perform randomly on X-ray images of hands.
Representation learning methods that transform encoded data (e.g., diagnosis and drug codes) into continuous vector spaces (i.e., vector embeddings) are critical for the application of deep learning in healthcare. Initial work in this area explored the use of variants of the word2vec algorithm to learn embeddings for m…
In medical real-world study (RWS), how to fully utilize the fragmentary and scarce information in model training to generate the solid diagnosis results is a challenging task. In this work, we introduce a novel multi-instance neural network, AMI-Net+, to train and predict from the incomplete and extremely imbalanced da…
We study the problem of detecting adverse drug events in electronic healthcare records. The challenge in this work is to aggregate heterogeneous data types involving diagnosis codes, drug codes, as well as lab measurements. An earlier framework proposed for the same problem demonstrated promising predictive performance…
Deep learning model improves X-ray disease detection accuracy in Thai patients.
problem Lack of large-scale validation of AI algorithms for medical image diagnosis in Thailand.
method Development and testing of a deep learning algorithm using 421,859 local chest radiographs.
result Convolutional neural networks achieve remarkable performance in detecting 13 common abnormality conditions on chest X-ray.
Tissue characterization has long been an important component of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for automatic lesion detection and further clinical planning. Motivated by the superior performance of deep learning methods on various computer vision problems, there has been increasing work applying deep learning t…
Unified deep learning predicts Parkinson's disease from medical images.
problem Diagnosing Parkinson's disease accurately from medical images.
method Transfer learning and domain adaptation using deep convolutional and recurrent neural networks.
result The approach effectively predicts Parkinson's disease across different medical environments.
Paper uses AI to improve medical diagnosis accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy of medical diagnoses.
method Heuristic frequentist and Bayesian approaches applied to a nationwide dataset.
result Algorithm outperforms human doctors in detecting abnormal births.
This study automates blood cell classification using computer vision.
problem Automated detection and classification of white blood cells.
method Color-based segmentation, morphological processing, feature extraction, PCA, Unsupervised and Supervised learning algorithms, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.
result Identification of robust algorithms for automated blood cell classification.
A statistical test controls false positives in anomaly localization using diffusion models.
problem Uncertainty and bias in generative models for anomaly localization.
method Selective inference to quantify significance and control false positives.
result The method effectively controls false positive detection rates.
IAGAN method improves medical image reconstruction by incorporating adaptive GAN priors.
problem Reconstructing high-fidelity medical images from incomplete data.
method Image-adaptive GAN-based reconstruction method (IAGAN).
result IAGAN can recover fine structures relevant for medical diagnosis.
This paper studies the trade-off between model accuracy and coverage for diagnosis models used by patients.
problem Balancing accuracy and coverage in diagnosis models for patient use.
method Learned diagnosis models with varying coverage from EHR data.
result A 1% drop in top-3 accuracy for every 10 diseases added to the coverage.
It is crucial to provide compatible treatment schemes for a disease according to various symptoms at different stages. However, most classification methods might be ineffective in accurately classifying a disease that holds the characteristics of multiple treatment stages, various symptoms, and multi-pathogenesis. More…
The paper uses geometric methods to classify medical data histograms.
problem Classifying medical data histograms for disease diagnosis.
method Information geometry of beta distributions for comparing and classifying histograms.
result Geometric tools, particularly negatively curved Fisher information, enable unique mean calculation and K-means classification.
In this paper, the development of a probabilistic network for the diagnosis of acute cardiopulmonary diseases is presented. This paper is a draft version of the article published after peer review in 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201600206). A panel of expert physicians collaborated to specify the qualitative part…
Automated detection of voice disorders with computational methods is a recent research area in the medical domain since it requires a rigorous endoscopy for the accurate diagnosis. Efficient screening methods are required for the diagnosis of voice disorders so as to provide timely medical facilities in minimal resourc…
MGMC method handles missing data in medical datasets for accurate disease classification.
problem Handling missing data in incomplete medical datasets for accurate disease classification.
method Multigraph Geometric Matrix Completion (MGMC) using multiple graph convolutional networks.
result MGMC achieves superior classification and imputation performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
In this paper, we consider adaptive decision-making problems for stochastic state estimation with partial observations. First, we introduce the concept of weak adaptive submodularity, a generalization of adaptive submodularity, which has found great success in solving challenging adaptive state estimation problems. The…
Quick and accurate medical diagnosis is crucial for the successful treatment of a disease. Using machine learning algorithms, we have built two models to predict a hematologic disease, based on laboratory blood test results. In one predictive model, we used all available blood test parameters and in the other a reduced…
New method accounts for uncertainty in medical AI evaluations.
problem Uncertainty in ground truth affects AI model performance estimates.
method Statistical aggregation approach to infer probabilities of medical conditions.
result Performance estimates are significantly lower when uncertainty is accounted for.
Paper tackles label noise in large datasets, purifying noisy data with a nonparametric framework.
problem Label noise in large-scale datasets with coarse labels.
method Develops a model-agnostic nonparametric framework for classification.
result Framework purifies noisy data using a small clean dataset and manages ambiguous samples.
This study interprets machine learning models to identify biomarkers for severe COVID-19 infection.
problem The black-box nature of machine learning models makes it difficult for medical researchers to understand and trust their predictions.
method The study uses permutation feature importance, Partial Dependence Plot, Individual Conditional Expectation, Accumulated Local Effects, Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations, and Shapley Additive Explanation to interpret four machine learning models.
result The study identifies NTproBNP, CRP, LDH, LYM, leukocytes, eosinophils, and platelets as biomarkers associated with severe COVID-19 infection.
We present a model for predicting electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities in short-duration 12-lead ECG signals which outperformed medical doctors on the 4th year of their cardiology residency. Such exams can provide a full evaluation of heart activity and have not been studied in previous end-to-end machine learning pap…
Proposes TPIS for early and low-cost TB vs. pneumonia diagnosis.
problem Challenges in differentiating TB from pneumonia.
method Two-step decision support system with stacked ensemble classifiers.
result TPIS outperforms other methods in early and final diagnosis.
Machine learning detects NASH patients from medical claims data.
problem Detecting undiagnosed NASH patients for screening and management.
method Gradient-boosted decision trees trained on administrative medical claims data.
result Model precision for NASH detection is significantly higher than NASH incidence.