CASCADE improves uncertainty communication in Parkinson's disease medication management.
problem Uncertainty in clinical decision-making for Parkinson's disease patients.
method CASCADE uses a novel conformal prediction framework to adaptively scale prediction intervals based on classification uncertainty.
result CASCADE produces more efficient and robust prediction intervals for Parkinson's disease patients.
New framework for managing medical risks using convex responses.
problem Medical risk management and dosing optimization.
method Analyzes convex and concave dose-response functions, defines antifragility.
result Proposes a mathematical framework for integrating nonlinearities in oncology.
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.
Paper tackles pandemic resource allocation challenges.
problem Shortages of medical resources during pandemics.
method Risk management approach, focusing on spatio-temporal competitions.
result New strategies for optimal stockpiling and allocation balancing resource competition.
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%.
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.
Paper proposes transparent insurance models for PBMs.
problem PBMs' opaque business models and hidden profits.
method Quantitative estimates of two models with fixed premiums and fee-for-service.
result Proposes transparent models with fixed premiums and fee-for-service.
This paper reviews deep learning methods for handling irregularly sampled medical time series data.
problem Handling irregularly sampled medical time series data for personalized treatment and precise diagnosis.
method Summarizes and compares deep learning methods categorized by technology and task.
result Achieved good results in data imputation and downstream tasks.
Develops a two-stage conformal prediction method for Parkinson's disease medication needs.
problem Heterogeneous disease progression and treatment response in Parkinson's Disease.
method Two-stage conformal prediction framework with statistical guarantees.
result Quantifies uncertainty in medication needs predictions, improving clinical trust and quality of life.
Pediatric asthma is the most prevalent chronic childhood illness, afflicting about 6.2 million children in the United States. However, asthma could be better managed by identifying and avoiding triggers, educating about medications and proper disease management strategies. This research utilizes deep learning methodolo…
Early detection of preventable diseases is important for better disease management, improved inter-ventions, and more efficient health-care resource allocation. Various machine learning approacheshave been developed to utilize information in Electronic Health Record (EHR) for this task. Majorityof previous attempts, ho…
Study predicts future hospitalizations to manage COVID-19 patient surge.
problem Managing hospitalization needs during COVID-19 pandemic.
method Used 4 recurrent neural networks to predict hospitalization changes.
result Sequence to sequence model with attention achieved high accuracy and AUC.
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.
Hybrid AI and rule-based framework de-identifies medical imaging data.
problem De-identifying medical imaging data to protect PHI and PII.
method Combines rule-based and AI techniques with uncertainty quantification.
result Robust performance across benchmark datasets and regulatory standards.
Due to advances in sensors, growing large and complex medical image data have the ability to visualize the pathological change in the cellular or even the molecular level or anatomical changes in tissues and organs. As a consequence, the medical images have the potential to enhance diagnosis of disease, prediction of c…
AdaptiveNet tackles disease progression prediction in rheumatoid arthritis using deep neural networks.
problem Predicting disease progression in rheumatoid arthritis using clinical data.
method AdaptiveNet, a novel recurrent neural network architecture, that handles multiple lists of different events and missing data.
result AdaptiveNet outperforms classical baselines in disease progression prediction.
Research evaluates data poisoning attacks on regression learning and introduces a new defense strategy.
problem Data poisoning attacks on regression learning threaten model integrity in critical systems.
method Realistic scenarios, novel black-box attack, and evaluation on 26 datasets.
result Mean squared error (MSE) increases to 150% with only 2% poisoned samples.
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.
Social media services such as Twitter are a valuable source of information for decision support systems. Many studies have shown that this also holds for the medical domain, where Twitter is considered a viable tool for public health officials to sift through relevant information for the early detection, management, an…
The treatment effects of medications play a key role in guiding medical prescriptions. They are usually assessed with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which are expensive. Recently, large-scale electronic health records (EHRs) have become available, opening up new opportunities for more cost-effective assessments. …
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.
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.
Managing patients with chronic diseases is a major and growing healthcare challenge in several countries. A chronic condition, such as diabetes, is an illness that lasts a long time and does not go away, and often leads to the patient's health gradually getting worse. While recent works involve raw electronic health re…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Healthcare companies must submit pharmaceutical drugs or medical devices to regulatory bodies before marketing new technology. Regulatory bodies frequently require transparent and interpretable computational modelling to justify a new healthcare technology, but researchers may have several competing models for a biolog…
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.
Big data analytics improves healthcare through early detection and quality life.
problem Limited access to healthcare data hinders evidence-based decision-making.
method Analysis of healthcare data using various tools and techniques.
result Big data analytics enhances healthcare quality and patient outcomes.
The rate at which medical questions are asked online far exceeds the capacity of qualified people to answer them, and many of these questions are not unique. Identifying same-question pairs could enable questions to be answered more effectively. While many research efforts have focused on the problem of general questio…
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…
This study applies neural models to automatically recognize medical entities from natural language.
problem Automated recognition of medical entities from natural language is complex and time-consuming.
method Utilizes deep neural sequence models trained on a large dataset of death certificates.
result Deep neural models can efficiently recognize medical entities from natural language.
Survey of deep learning methods for medical anomaly detection.
problem Medical anomaly detection using machine learning.
method Thorough review of deep learning techniques across various medical domains.
result Comparison and contrast of deep learning models and their limitations.
MedGraph learns patient visit embeddings from EMRs, capturing both attributes and temporal sequences.
problem Limited EMR embedding methods fail to capture patient demographics, utilisation, and code descriptions.
method MedGraph constructs an attributed bipartite graph and uses a point process to model temporal sequences.
result MedGraph outperforms state-of-the-art methods in medical risk prediction tasks.
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.
Privacy-preserving deep learning for medical data across distributed platforms.
problem Data leakage in medical platforms.
method Separates hidden layers; first layer local, others centralized for training.
result Improved learning performance with all data used during training.
For machine learning perception problems, human-level classification performance is used as an estimate of top algorithm performance. Thus, it is important to understand as precisely as possible the factors that impact human-level performance. Knowing this 1) provides a benchmark for model performance, 2) tells a proje…
RL algorithms with medical integration improve personalized treatment recommendations.
problem Developing effective personalized treatment strategies for chronic diseases.
method Integrating medical knowledge into RL algorithms for DTR.
result Enhanced treatment recommendations with increased confidence.
Review of deep learning methods in medical image registration.
problem Improving accuracy and efficiency of medical image registration.
method Classification and detailed analysis of seven categories of DL-based registration methods.
result Comprehensive comparison of DL-based methods for lung and brain registration.
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.
Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms lack generalization and suffer from over-fitting whenever trained on small dataset,…
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.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and their extensions have carved open many exciting ways to tackle well known and challenging medical image analysis problems such as medical image de-noising, reconstruction, segmentation, data simulation, detection or classification. Furthermore, their ability to synthesize imag…
Paper uses AI to predict medications from medical codes, improving accuracy in healthcare.
problem Predicting medications from incomplete or incorrect medical codes is challenging.
method Robust Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with decay mechanism and noise injection.
result The method accurately predicts medication orders from contaminated medical codes.