This paper tackles shape denoising in computer vision and medical imaging.
problem Handling shapes with missing pieces or outliers in shape modeling.
method Introduces six types of noise and an objective measure for shape denoising.
result Evaluates seven shape denoising methods, six of which are based on deep learning.
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.
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.
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.
We propose a Bayesian model that predicts recovery curves based on information available before the disruptive event. A recovery curve of interest is the quantified sexual function of prostate cancer patients after prostatectomy surgery. We illustrate the utility of our model as a pre-treatment medical decision aid, pr…
DeepHeart predicts multiple medical conditions from wearable heart rate data.
problem Predicting multiple medical conditions from wearable heart rate data.
method Semi-supervised LSTM trained on 57,675 person-weeks of data.
result Semi-supervised sequence learning and heuristic pretraining outperform hand-engineered biomarkers.
Two binary Sine Cosine Algorithms improve feature selection in medical datasets.
problem Optimizing feature selection from medical datasets to enhance model accuracy.
method Proposed SBSCA and VBSCA algorithms using S-shaped and V-shaped transfer functions.
result SBSCA and VBSCA outperform four other binary optimization algorithms in medical datasets.
New research finds uncertainty estimation techniques fail to reliably detect abnormal medical cases.
problem Uncertainty estimation does not reliably detect out-of-distribution patients in medical tabular data.
method A series of tests on various uncertainty estimation techniques on real-world medical data.
result Almost all techniques fail to identify out-of-distribution patients, contradicting earlier findings.
This paper identifies and addresses biases in medical imaging research.
problem Challenges in medical imaging research, including biases in datasets, methods, and evaluation metrics.
method Literature review and analysis of potential biases.
result Recommendations to counteract biases in future research.
Deep learning models struggle with irrelevant features in survival analysis.
problem Deep learning models suffer from performance deficits when dealing with many irrelevant features in survival analysis.
method Developed novel feature selection methods for deep learning models in survival analysis.
result Substantial performance improvements are achievable with feature selection methods.
ChatGPT's medical response accuracy is 56%, but studies vary widely.
problem Lack of standard guidelines for evaluating ChatGPT's performance in medicine.
method Systematic review and meta-analysis of 17 studies.
result ChatGPT's overall integrated accuracy in medical queries is 56%.
Systematic review of electronic health record phenotyping approaches.
problem Detecting patient cohorts using electronic health records.
method Comprehensive literature review of preprocessing and modeling approaches.
result Natural language processing shows promise for electronic phenotyping.
This paper tackles label noise in deep learning for medical image analysis.
problem Label noise impacts deep learning models in medical image analysis.
method Review of state-of-the-art techniques and experiments with label noise in medical datasets.
result Developed new methods to combat label noise in deep models for medical image analysis.
A new metric FRD improves comparing medical images.
problem Comparing medical images for distribution or domain differences.
method Developed a new metric FRD using standardized radiomic features.
result FRD outperforms other metrics in various medical imaging applications.
A TCL framework improves causal effect estimation in limited data.
problem Improving causal effect estimation accuracy in limited data.
method Transfer Learning (TCL) with ℓ1 regularization for nuisance models.
result Non-asymptotic recovery guarantees for exttt{ℓ1-TCL} in high-dimensional settings. Deep learning predicts readmissions from less structured data.
problem Predicting readmissions from non-standard, unstructured medical records.
method Proposes a deep learning architecture that handles less structured data, including Spanish text.
result Achieves AUROC of 0.76 on a Chilean medical dataset, comparable to US results.
Study clusters Kenyan medical insurance companies based on financial performance and reporting consistency.
problem Identifying financial health and reporting consistency in Kenyan medical insurance companies.
method Advanced clustering techniques (KMeans, DTW) on financial ratios and time series data.
result Four distinct clusters identified, each representing different financial performance and reporting consistency combinations.
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.
CovidCare uses EMR data to predict patient outcomes in emerging epidemics.
problem Intelligent prognosis for patients with emerging infectious diseases during rapid epidemics.
method Transfer learning and knowledge distillation from existing EMR data.
result CovidCare outperforms baseline methods in predicting patient length of stay.
ConCare personalizes healthcare predictions by capturing EMR features.
problem Predicting patient outcomes from EMR data with personalization.
method Captures personal characteristics and time-aware distribution in EMR data.
result Improves healthcare prediction accuracy through personalized health context.
GANs help create realistic synthetic health data, boosting medical research.
problem Challenges in creating realistic synthetic health data due to private patient data.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn and produce synthetic health data.
result GANs can produce realistic synthetic health data, overcoming challenges in OHD.
Study improves confidence measures in medical imaging pipelines by addressing bias.
problem Bias in metric-based imaging pipelines compromises the efficiency of prediction intervals.
method Formalized symmetric and asymmetric CP formulations, analyzed bias effects, and validated empirically.
result Symmetric intervals are inflated by bias, while asymmetric intervals remain unaffected.
The study evaluates AI model performance measures for medical use.
problem Selecting appropriate performance measures for AI models in medical practice.
method Assessed 32 performance measures across five domains for binary outcomes.
result 17 measures are both proper and reflect decision-analytic performance.
The paper investigates interpretability techniques for deep learning models in medical data.
problem Understanding the logic behind predictions of black-box models in medical decision-making.
method Applied deep neural networks and random forests to a medical dataset. Used autoencoders and local interpretable models to provide insights.
result Local interpretable models and autoencoders provide meaningful insights into cancer predictions, identifying distinct and non-generalizable features.
DDPMs can reproduce medical image context, showing interpolation between samples.
problem Understanding DDPMs' ability to learn spatial context in medical imaging.
method Used stochastic context models (SCMs) to produce training data and assess DDPMs' performance.
result DDPMs can generate contextually correct images, interpolating between samples.
Improved language model for French clinical reports achieves state-of-the-art performance in medical NLP tasks.
problem Lack of specialized language models for French clinical reports.
method Adapted a general pre-trained language model (CamemBERT) to French clinical reports using a corpus of 21M reports.
result Pretrained and fine-tuned models improved F1-score by 3 percentage points on APMed task.
The study diagnoses fairness issues in healthcare models under distribution shifts.
problem Understanding and diagnosing fairness changes in machine learning models under distribution shifts in healthcare.
method Causal framing and conditional independence tests to characterize distribution shifts.
result Knowledge of distribution shifts helps diagnose fairness transfer failures, including complex cases.
We address the problem of \emph{instance label stability} in multiple instance learning (MIL) classifiers. These classifiers are trained only on globally annotated images (bags), but often can provide fine-grained annotations for image pixels or patches (instances). This is interesting for computer aided diagnosis (CAD…
Adapts CNN for robust medical image segmentation across different scanners and protocols.
problem Performance degradation of CNNs in medical image segmentation due to mismatch between training and test images.
method Designs a segmentation CNN as a concatenation of a shallow normalization CNN and a deep CNN. At test time, adapts the normalization sub-network for each test image using a denoising autoencoder.
result Consistently improves performance on multi-center MRI datasets of brain, heart, and prostate.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
The medical field stands to see significant benefits from the recent advances in deep learning. Knowing the uncertainty in the decision made by any machine learning algorithm is of utmost importance for medical practitioners. This study demonstrates the utility of using Bayesian LSTMs for classification of medical time…
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.
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.
Study proposes a new approval policy for ML-based medical devices to prevent gradual performance degradation.
problem Gradual deterioration in machine learning model performance over time in medical devices.
method Formulated an automatic algorithmic change protocol (aACP) as an online hypothesis testing problem, considering both error-rate guarantees and non-guaranteed policies.
result Controlled the rate of gradual deterioration (biocreep) in machine learning models without significantly impacting approval of beneficial modifications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This paper investigates robust and efficient DR/RDR estimators for WATEs.
problem Lack of systematic investigation into robustness and efficiency conditions for WATE estimation.
method Proposes three RDR estimators using semiparametric efficient influence function and double/debiased machine learning.
result Demonstrates the practical relevance of the methods in medical and social sciences.