Model uses unsupervised learning to classify medical reports with less labeled data.
problem Lack of labeled data for fine-grained disease classification in medical reports.
method Developed a pipeline combining an unsupervised encoder-language model and a supervised classifier model.
result Improved classification accuracy with less labeled data compared to previous methods.
Automated generation of medical reports from chest x-rays using expert annotations.
problem Generating long, unstructured text from medical images with context and consistency.
method First learn visually-informative medical concepts from raw reports, then use these concepts to auto-generate structured reports from images.
result Validation on OpenI dataset shows auto-generated reports are consistent with manual annotations.
This paper reports the method and evaluation results of MedAusbild team for ISIC challenge task. Since early 2017, our team has worked on melanoma classification [1][6], and has employed deep learning since beginning of 2018 [7]. Deep learning helps researchers absolutely to treat and detect diseases by analyzing medic…
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.
AI generates a sequence of death causes from hospital records.
problem Accurate death reporting for vital statistics and policy formulation.
method Neural machine translation models to generate causal chains, incorporating medical domain knowledge.
result Achieved 16.04 BLEU score for generating accurate causal chains.
Study compares DL models for medical image segmentation, finds synergistic ensemble strategies improve performance.
problem Improving DL models for specialized medical image segmentation using transfer learning.
method Detailed comparisons of TII and LMI models for binary segmentation of medical images.
result Ensemble strategies improve performance by 10% in certain scenarios.
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%.
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 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.
Paper uses ML to classify liver diseases from clinical data.
problem Classifying liver diseases from clinical data.
method Multiple imputation, PCA, data visualizations, binary classifier algorithms (ANN, RF, SVM).
result SVM showed better accuracy (98.23%).
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully employed in recent years for the detection of radiological abnormalities in medical images such as plain x-rays. To date, most studies use CNNs on individual examinations in isolation and discard previously available clinical information. In this study we set …
Deep learning has been successfully applied to a variety of image classification tasks. There has been keen interest to apply deep learning in the medical domain, particularly specialties that heavily utilize imaging, such as ophthalmology. One issue that may hinder application of deep learning to the medical domain is…
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.
A deep learning approach classifies medical images hierarchically.
problem Limitations of traditional supervised classifiers in medical image classification.
method Hierarchical Medical Image Classification (HMIC) using deep learning models.
result HMIC achieved better performance in classifying medical images hierarchically.
This paper proposes a new method to compress CNNs for medical image analysis, improving efficiency and accuracy.
problem Large memory and computational requirements of CNNs in resource-constrained environments.
method Hierarchical spatio-channel low-rank compression framework that partitions feature maps into spatial regions and groups channels according to co-activation patterns within each region.
result The proposed method achieves significant FLOP reduction, inference speed-up, and improved classification accuracy compared to existing methods.
Data is one of the essential ingredients to power deep learning research. Small datasets, especially specific to medical institutes, bring challenges to deep learning training stage. This work aims to develop a practical deep multimodal that can classify patients into abnormal and normal categories accurately as well a…
Motivated by the need to automate medical information extraction from free-text radiological reports, we present a bi-directional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) neural network architecture for modelling radiological language. The model has been used to address two NLP tasks: medical named-entity recognition (NER) and …
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.
This paper introduces a deep-learning based efficient classifier for common dermatological conditions, aimed at people without easy access to skin specialists. We report approximately 80% accuracy, in a situation where primary care doctors have attained 57% success rate, according to recent literature. The rationale of…
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…
Deep neural network models have been proven to be very successful in image classification tasks, also for medical diagnosis, but their main concern is its lack of interpretability. They use to work as intuition machines with high statistical confidence but unable to give interpretable explanations about the reported re…
Learning Interpretable representation in medical applications is becoming essential for adopting data-driven models into clinical practice. It has been recently shown that learning a disentangled feature representation is important for a more compact and explainable representation of the data. In this paper, we introdu…
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.
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 DAM method improves AUC scores in medical image classification.
problem Maximizing AUC in large-scale medical image classification.
method Proposes AUC margin loss for robust optimization, conducts extensive empirical studies.
result Improves performance on four medical image classification tasks, achieving 1st place on Stanford CheXpert.
Deep learning methods, and in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to an enormous breakthrough in a wide range of computer vision tasks, primarily by using large-scale annotated datasets. However, obtaining such datasets in the medical domain remains a challenge. In this paper, we present methods f…
Paper explores VRM for PSMLC with partially labeled medical images.
problem Improving PSMLC with limited labeled data.
method Applies VRM to PSMLC for better model performance.
result VRM improves PSMLC performance with partial labels.
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.
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.
A new rotation invariant method for 3D medical imaging classification.
problem Computational expense and lack of rotation invariance in 3D medical image processing.
method Proposes a rotation invariant convolution operator using hypersphere topology.
result Demonstrates improved classification accuracy and rotation invariance.
With the advents of deep learning, improved image classification with complex discriminative models has been made possible. However, such deep models with increased complexity require a huge set of labeled samples to generalize the training. Such classification models can easily overfit when applied for medical images …
Stability in clinical prediction models is crucial for transferability between studies, yet has received little attention. The problem is paramount in high dimensional data which invites sparse models with feature selection capability. We introduce an effective method to stabilize sparse Cox model of time-to-events usi…
Adherence can be defined as "the extent to which patients take their medications as prescribed by their healthcare providers"[Osterberg and Blaschke, 2005]. World Health Organization's reports point out that, in developed countries, only about 50% of patients with chronic diseases correctly follow their treatments. Thi…
Labeling training datasets has become a key barrier to building medical machine learning models. One strategy is to generate training labels programmatically, for example by applying natural language processing pipelines to text reports associated with imaging studies. We propose cross-modal data programming, which gen…
Proposes a novel SVM model for binary classification with different misclassification costs.
problem Real-world classification problems with varying misclassification costs.
method Incorporates performance constraints in SVM formulation to seek a hyperplane with maximal margin and misclassification rates below given thresholds.
result The proposed model gives users control over misclassification rates in one class at the expense of the other.
Tensor networks improve medical image classification performance.
problem Improving medical image classification accuracy.
method Extending tensor networks to medical image analysis, focusing on 2D images.
result Tensor networks achieve comparable performance to deep learning methods with fewer hyperparameters and resources.
Study predicts colorectal polyp recurrence using medical records and statistical models.
problem Identifying patient characteristics influencing colorectal polyp recurrence.
method Natural language processing for extracting polyp characteristics, Kaplan-Meier curves, Cox proportional hazards modeling, random survival forest models.
result Polyp size, number, location, and patient smoking status significantly influence recurrence risk.
The paper uses VGG-19 for plant species classification from leaf images.
problem Manual inspection of plant species by botanists is time-consuming.
method Transfer learning with VGG-19 for feature extraction and classification.
result The model achieves 99.70% accuracy in predicting plant species.
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.
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.
CheXpert++ improves CheXpert's accuracy and usability for medical radiology reports.
problem Infeasibility of obtaining ground truth labels for medical data.
method BERT-based approximation of CheXpert, addressing speed, differentiability, and probabilistic output.
result Achieves 99.81% parity with CheXpert, significantly faster, differentiable, and probabilistic.
CAT framework improves AI medical screening fairness and reliability.
problem Imbalanced data, varying performance across cohorts, and patient-level inconsistencies in traditional metrics.
method CAT framework introduces patient-level assessment, entropy-based distribution weighting, and cohort-weighted sensitivity and specificity.
result Enhanced predictive reliability, fairness, and interpretability of AI-driven medical screening models.
Paper develops a BERT-based classifier to reduce pathology report annotation workload.
problem Manual annotation of pathology reports is labor-intensive and time-consuming.
method Developed an automatic text classifier using BERT and introduced a human-centric metric to identify low-confidence cases.
result The model reduces manual annotation workload by 80% to 98%.
MAGIC-Flow generates and classifies medical images with interpretability.
problem Challenges in generative modeling for medical imaging.
method Conditional multiscale normalizing flow architecture.
result MAGIC-Flow creates realistic, diverse samples and improves classification.
A new SSL method improves medical image classification using global latent mixing.
problem Costly annotation of large-scale medical image data sets.
method Linear mixing of labeled and unlabeled data in both input and latent space.
result Improved performance in semi-supervised classification of thoracic disease and skin lesion.
PAC-Bayesian method improves deep learning generalization in medical imaging.
problem Overfitting in deep networks for medical imaging datasets.
method PAC-Bayesian framework applied to large (stochastic) networks.
result PAC-Bayesian bounds are competitive and more explainable than simpler methods.
A new neural network approach for medical image reconstruction.
problem Ill-posed large-scale inverse problems in medical imaging.
method Decoupling regularization from data consistency using neural network priors.
result The method outperforms existing techniques in various quantitative measures.
Existing models based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) for sentence classification often do not incorporate the context in which sentences appear, and classify sentences individually. However, traditional sentence classification approaches have been shown to greatly benefit from jointly classifying subsequent sente…