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.
Laboratory testing and medication prescription are two of the most important routines in daily clinical practice. Developing an artificial intelligence system that can automatically make lab test imputations and medication recommendations can save costs on potentially redundant lab tests and inform physicians of a more…
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.
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.
The discovery of adversarial examples has raised concerns about the practical deployment of deep learning systems. In this paper, we demonstrate that adversarial examples are capable of manipulating deep learning systems across three clinical domains. For each of our representative medical deep learning classifiers, bo…
AI predicts medical specialty diagnostic choices from EHR records.
problem Predicting timely medical specialty diagnostic workups for patients.
method Ensemble of feed-forward neural networks trained on EHR data.
result Significantly higher accuracy compared to traditional checklists.
Deep learning improves solving medical imaging problems with sparse data.
problem Solving underdetermined inverse problems in medical imaging.
method Analyzing the structure of training data suitable for deep learning to solve highly non-linear underdetermined systems.
result Deep learning can learn reconstruction maps from training data for highly underdetermined systems.
Paper detects biases in medical imaging ML models using counterfactual analysis.
problem Bias in medical imaging ML models negatively impacts generalization performance.
method Counterfactual invariance framework combining conditional latent diffusion models and statistical hypothesis testing.
result The method identifies and quantifies biases without direct access to counterfactual data.
Visual analytics system for comparing medical records using sequence embeddings.
problem Challenges in analyzing medical records due to high dimensionality, irregularity, and sparsity.
method Event and sequence embeddings using autoencoder and self-attention mechanism, with sequence alignment for comparison.
result Demonstrated effectiveness with real-world neonatal ICU dataset.
System predicts HIV patients at risk of dropping out of care.
problem High non-adherence and dropout rates among HIV patients.
method Predictive machine learning model based on resource constraints, stability, and fairness.
result Model performs 3x better than baseline for clinical use and 2.3x better for city-wide use.
We present an operational component of a real-world patient triage system. Given a specific patient presentation, the system is able to assess the level of medical urgency and issue the most appropriate recommendation in terms of best point of care and time to treat. We use an attention-based convolutional neural netwo…
The quality of machine translation is rapidly evolving. Today one can find several machine translation systems on the web that provide reasonable translations, although the systems are not perfect. In some specific domains, the quality may decrease. A recently proposed approach to this domain is neural machine translat…
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.
Develops a new method to create object models from medical images.
problem Variability in anatomical structures and textures limits observer performance.
method Progressive Growing AmbientGAN (ProAmGAN) for creating stochastic object models from medical imaging measurements.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of ProAmGAN in creating realistic object models.
This new research explores the effects of various training methods on a Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation system for medical texts. Various elements of the EMEA parallel text corpora from the OPUS project were used as the basis for training of phrase tables and language models and for development, tunin…
Feature engineering remains a major bottleneck when creating predictive systems from electronic medical records. At present, an important missing element is detecting predictive regular clinical motifs from irregular episodic records. We present Deepr (short for Deep record), a new end-to-end deep learning system that …
Mining relationships between treatment(s) and medical problem(s) is vital in the biomedical domain. This helps in various applications, such as decision support system, safety surveillance, and new treatment discovery. We propose a deep learning approach that utilizes both word level and sentence-level representations …
Paper shows how to quantify uncertainty in medical ML models.
problem Uncertainty in opaque ML models can lead to safety risks in medical applications.
method Introduces Uncertainty Wrapper to quantify uncertainty transparently.
result Demonstrates practical utility of Uncertainty Wrapper in flow cytometry.
MCU-Net combines U-Net and Monte Carlo Dropout for uncertainty in medical image segmentation.
problem Lack of uncertainty representation in deep learning methods for patient-centered healthcare decisions.
method MCU-Net framework using U-Net and Monte Carlo Dropout with four uncertainty metrics.
result MCU-Net maximizes automated performance and refers truly uncertain cases.
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.
LMM predicts healthcare costs and risks with improved accuracy.
problem Wasteful healthcare spending and inefficiencies in risk prediction.
method Generative pre-trained transformer trained on patient event sequences.
result Improves cost prediction by 14.1% and chronic conditions prediction by 1.9%.
ProAGAN stabilizes GANs for learning SOMs from noisy medical imaging data.
problem Learning stochastic object models from noisy and indirect medical imaging measurements.
method Developed Progressive Growing of AmbientGANs (ProAGAN) to stabilize GANs training.
result Signal detection performance improved using ProAGAN-generated images.
Visual system compares and evaluates machine learning models for clinical data predictions.
problem Challenges in comparing and evaluating different machine learning models for medical predictions.
method Developed a visual analytics system to compare and evaluate multiple models' prediction criteria and consistency.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of the visual analytics system in assisting clinicians and researchers.
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.
The paper proposes a deep generative model for complex disease trajectories.
problem Modeling and analyzing complex disease trajectories.
method Deep generative time series approach with semi-supervised latent processes.
result The model can discover novel aspects of diseases and cluster them into new sub-types.
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 …
Deep learning detects pneumonia with 36x compression on low-power devices.
problem High accuracy pneumonia detection on low-power embedded devices.
method Structured weight pruning method for compression and maintaining accuracy.
result Up to 36x compression ratio with no accuracy loss.
With the expeditious advancement of information technologies, health-related data presented unprecedented potentials for medical and health discoveries but at the same time significant challenges for machine learning techniques both in terms of size and complexity. Those challenges include: the structured data with var…
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 benchmarks OoDD methods for medical imaging.
problem Medical models trained for one domain may fail on images from a different domain.
method Defined 3 categories of OoD examples and benchmarked methods in 3 medical imaging domains.
result Simple binary classifier on feature representation yields best accuracy and AUPRC.
Study shows racial bias in health data, which can be reduced with simple techniques.
problem Racial bias in health indicators measured by the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
method Used publicly available and nationally representative MEPS data to show bias in predictive models for care management.
result Racial bias can be significantly reduced using simple mitigation techniques.
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.
Scoring systems are linear classification models that only require users to add, subtract and multiply a few small numbers in order to make a prediction. These models are in widespread use by the medical community, but are difficult to learn from data because they need to be accurate and sparse, have coprime integer co…
System suggests clinical concepts in real-time for faster note creation.
problem Efficiently creating structured clinical notes with minimal keystrokes.
method Contextual autocompletion using shallow neural networks.
result Reduces keystrokes by 67% in real hospital environments.
Introduction. Case Based Reasoning (CBR) is an emerg- ing decision making paradigm in medical research where new cases are solved relying on previously solved similar cases. Usually, a database of solved cases is provided, and every case is described through a set of attributes (inputs) and a label (output). Extracting…
Enhances understanding of patient healthcare journeys using self-attention.
problem Capturing hidden dependencies in multi-level patient journey data.
method Proposes a multi-level self-attention network (MusaNet) for encoding patient journeys.
result MusaNet produces higher-quality representations than state-of-the-art methods.
Artificial intelligence (AI) generally and machine learning (ML) specifically demonstrate impressive practical success in many different application domains, e.g. in autonomous driving, speech recognition, or recommender systems. Deep learning approaches, trained on extremely large data sets or using reinforcement lear…
SCBF preserves medical data privacy by training models without sharing inputs.
problem Privacy concerns in medical data collection and training.
method Stochastic Channel-Based Federated Learning (SCBF) with pruning.
result SCBF outperforms Federated Averaging with better performance and faster saturating speed.
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…
Paper proposes a human-algorithm approach to reduce medical device recall risk and workload.
problem High recall rate and regulatory workload in FDA's 510(k) pathway.
method Developed machine learning models to estimate recall risk and proposed a data-driven clearance policy.
result Conservative evaluation of policy shows a 32.9% improvement in recall rate and 40.5% reduction in workload.
Deep learning models exhibit state-of-the-art performance for many predictive healthcare tasks using electronic health records (EHR) data, but these models typically require training data volume that exceeds the capacity of most healthcare systems. External resources such as medical ontologies are used to bridge the da…
Generative model for SSc disease trajectories using deep learning.
problem Modeling complex disease trajectories in Systemic Sclerosis.
method Semi-supervised deep generative model with latent temporal processes.
result Learned latent processes enable personalized monitoring and prediction.
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.
Smart bin monitors predict medication adherence with high accuracy.
problem Predicting chronic medication adherence to improve healthcare efficiency.
method Machine learning models trained on IoT device data.
result High predictive performance (ROC AUC 0.86).
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.
The paper introduces Precision Disease Networks (PDN) for predicting medical outcomes.
problem Predicting medical outcomes for patients with diseases.
method Building patient-specific disease networks, clustering, and data visualization.
result PDN improves prediction of patient outcomes compared to standard statistical analysis.
In this work we explored building automatic speech recognition models for transcribing doctor patient conversation. We collected a large scale dataset of clinical conversations (14,000 hr), designed the task to represent the real word scenario, and explored several alignment approaches to iteratively improve data qua…
Generative model learns object variability from MRI measurements.
problem Establishing stochastic object models from medical imaging data.
method Advanced AmbientGANs with multiresolution training.
result AmbientGANs reliably learn object distributions from incomplete or noisy data.