Cluster analysis aims at separating patients into phenotypically heterogenous groups and defining therapeutically homogeneous patient subclasses. It is an important approach in data-driven disease classification and subtyping. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a syndrome due to sudden decrease of coronary artery blood f…
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Deep learning clusters patient time-series data for better prognosis.
problem Clustering time-series data for patient phenotyping and prognosis.
method Deep predictive clustering with novel loss functions for future outcome distribution.
result Model achieves superior clustering performance and identifies meaningful patient subgroups.
Predicting Glaucoma Visual Field Loss by Hierarchically Aggregating Clustering-based Predictorsstat.ML
This study addresses the issue of predicting the glaucomatous visual field loss from patient disease datasets. Our goal is to accurately predict the progress of the disease in individual patients. As very few measurements are available for each patient, it is difficult to produce good predictors for individuals. A rece…
New method interprets deep embeddings for diabetes patient clustering.
problem Interpreting deep embeddings for disease progression.
method Patient clustering approach using deep embeddings.
result Clinically meaningful insights into diabetes progression patterns.
Driven by the multi-level structure of human intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG) recordings of epileptic seizures, we introduce a new variant of a hierarchical Dirichlet Process---the multi-level clustering hierarchical Dirichlet Process (MLC-HDP)---that simultaneously clusters datasets on multiple levels. Our sei…
Bayesian Supervised Causal Clustering identifies patient subgroups for personalized decision-making.
problem Finding patient subgroups with similar characteristics for personalized decision-making.
method Bayesian Supervised Causal Clustering (BSCC) that identifies homogenous subgroups based on treatment effects.
result BSCC identifies subgroups with similar covariate profiles and treatment effects.
Survival month for non-small lung cancer patients depend upon which stage of lung cancer is present. Our aim is to identify smoking specific gene expression biomarkers in the prognosis of lung cancer patients. In this paper, we introduce the network elastic net, a generalization of network lasso that allows for simulta…
Patient journeys are compared to find clusters of similar disease trajectories.
problem Discovering shared health outcomes among patient journeys.
method Comparing longitudinal health data to identify clusters of similar patient trajectories.
result Clusters of patient journeys with similar health outcomes can be identified.
The ability to accurately forecast and control inpatient census, and thereby workloads, is a critical and longstanding problem in hospital management. Majority of current literature focuses on optimal scheduling of inpatients, but largely ignores the process of accurate estimation of the trajectory of patients througho…
FONT clusters patients across health systems with privacy and efficiency.
problem Challenges in multi-site cluster analysis due to data-sharing restrictions.
method Federated One-shot Ensemble Clustering (FONT) algorithm that requires only a single round of communication and exchanges only fitted model parameters and class labels.
result FONT improves consistency of patient clusters across sites compared to locally fitted clusters.
Visual summarization of clinical data collected on patients contained within the electronic health record (EHR) may enable precise and rapid triage at the time of patient presentation to an emergency department (ED). The triage process is critical in the appropriate allocation of resources and in anticipating eventual …
Deep Representation Learning of Electronic Health Records to Unlock Patient Stratification at Scaleq-bio.QM
Deep learning model creates patient representations for scalable EHR-based stratification.
problem Challenges in summarizing and representing patient data from EHRs prevent scalable stratification analysis.
method Unsupervised framework based on deep learning (ConvAE) using word embeddings, CNNs, and autoencoders.
result ConvAE significantly outperformed baselines in clustering diverse patient cohorts, identifying clinically relevant subtypes.
Deep network clusters hospital patients' vital signs.
problem Sparse and irregularly collected vital sign data.
method Deep interpolation network for latent representation extraction.
result Extracted 7 distinct clusters from vital sign data.
In this paper we present a method for the unsupervised clustering of high-dimensional binary data, with a special focus on electronic healthcare records. We present a robust and efficient heuristic to face this problem using tensor decomposition. We present the reasons why this approach is preferable for tasks such as …
An interpretable multiple kernel learning approach for the discovery of integrative cancer subtypesstat.ML
Due to the complexity of cancer, clustering algorithms have been used to disentangle the observed heterogeneity and identify cancer subtypes that can be treated specifically. While kernel based clustering approaches allow the use of more than one input matrix, which is an important factor when considering a multidimens…
Proposes a method to cluster fMRI data and estimate brain connectivity networks.
problem Clustering fMRI data to identify patient groups based on brain connectivity.
method Random covariance clustering model (RCCM) to cluster subjects and estimate individual and shared FC networks.
result RCCM outperforms other methods in clustering and FC network estimation, demonstrated through simulations and real data.
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Cumulative Pregnancy Rate Prediction from Basic Patient Characteristicsq-bio.QM
Paper predicts IVF pregnancy rates from basic patient info.
problem Predicting IVF pregnancy rates from patient characteristics.
method Clustering patients into groups, then SVM models for each group.
result Support vector machine models achieve best overall performance.
Improving Patient Subtyping on Longitudinal Data using Representations from Mamba-based Architecturecs.LG
Study proposes a model to improve patient subtyping from EHR data.
problem Challenges in subtyping temporal EHR datasets.
method Self-supervised Mamba-based model for learning EHR representations.
result Model outperforms baseline models in EHR data subtyping.
Learning from electronic medical records (EMR) is challenging due to their relational nature and the uncertain dependence between a patient's past and future health status. Statistical relational learning is a natural fit for analyzing EMRs but is less adept at handling their inherent latent structure, such as connecti…
Precision disease networks (PDN)q-bio.QM
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.
New method phenotypes sleep apnea patients using time series analysis.
problem Traditional diagnosis of sleep apnea is insufficient for capturing its multi-faceted outcomes.
method Fuzzy clustering in time and frequency domains, and persistent homology for topological analysis.
result Phenotyping patients improves understanding of sleep apnea.
Paper introduces methods to automatically generate SOAP notes from patient-physician conversations.
problem Burden of creating digital SOAP notes by physicians.
method Cluster2Sent algorithm for summarizing patient-physician conversations.
result Cluster2Sent algorithm outperforms existing methods by 8 ROUGE-1 points.
Traditional medicine typically applies one-size-fits-all treatment for the entire patient population whereas precision medicine develops tailored treatment schemes for different patient subgroups. The fact that some factors may be more significant for a specific patient subgroup motivates clinicians and medical researc…
Currently, approximately 30% of epileptic patients treated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) remain resistant to treatment (known as refractory patients). This project seeks to understand the underlying similarities in refractory patients vs. other epileptic patients, identify features contributing to drug resistance acr…
This paper presents an example of how demographical characteristics of patients influence their susceptibility to certain medical conditions. In this paper, we investigate the association of health conditions to age of patients in a heterogeneous population. We show that besides the symptoms a patients is having, the a…
New algorithms for clustering and synthetic data generation of heterogeneous tabular datasets.
problem Clustering and generating synthetic data from heterogeneous tabular datasets with hidden cluster structure.
method Developed MMM and MMMsynth algorithms for clustering and synthetic data generation.
result MMMsynth algorithm outperforms other literature tabular-data generators and approaches real data performance.
Survival Prediction of Heart Failure Patients using Stacked Ensemble Machine Learning Algorithmcs.LG
Study predicts heart failure patient survival using stacked ensemble ML.
problem Predicting survival of heart failure patients.
method Collect and analyze patient data, apply SMOTE, use K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means clustering, Random Forest, XGBoost, Decision Tree, and propose a stacked ensemble model.
result Supervised ML algorithms outperform unsupervised models, achieving high accuracy and F1 score.
StageNet improves health risk prediction by integrating disease stage information.
problem Improving health risk prediction for patients with chronic conditions.
method StageNet uses a stage-aware LSTM and stage-adaptive convolutional modules to extract and integrate disease stage information.
result StageNet achieves up to 12% higher AUPRC for risk prediction and over 58% higher Calinski-Harabasz score for patient subtyping compared to state-of-the-art models.
This study proposes a method to predict ICU infections from imbalanced data using clustering-based undersampling and ensemble classifiers.
problem Predicting healthcare-associated infections in ICU patients from imbalanced data.
method Clustering-based undersampling strategy combined with ensemble classifiers.
result The proposed method outperforms other resampling techniques in predicting ICU infections.
The large volume of text in electronic healthcare records often remains underused due to a lack of methodologies to extract interpretable content. Here we present an unsupervised framework for the analysis of free text that combines text-embedding with paragraph vectors and graph-theoretical multiscale community detect…
Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes Case Management: The Intersection of Physical and Mental Healthq-bio.QM
Diabetes is a major public health problem in the United States, affecting roughly 30 million people. Diabetes complications, along with the mental health comorbidities that often co-occur with them, are major drivers of high healthcare costs, poor outcomes, and reduced treatment adherence in diabetes. Here, we evaluate…
HIV RNA viral load (VL) is an important outcome variable in studies of HIV infected persons. There exists only a handful of methods which classify patients by viral load patterns. Most methods place limits on the use of viral load measurements, are often specific to a particular study design, and do not account for com…
Applications of Machine Learning in Pharmacogenomics: Clustering Plasma Concentration-Time Curvesstat.AP
The paper clusters PK curves using ML, finding it useful for identifying similar patterns.
problem Improving drug development and patient outcomes through ML in pharmacogenomics.
method Unsupervised clustering of PK curves using various dissimilarity measures.
result Euclidean distance is most suitable for clustering PK curves, and clustering can validate pharmacogenomic results.
Trans-GLMC tackles source heterogeneity in transfer learning for structured clusters.
problem Source heterogeneity makes it hard to use multiple related auxiliary sources effectively.
method Trans-GLMC constructs clusters of sources, then combines global fusion, within-cluster refinement, and target debiasing.
result Improves facility-specific prediction and identifies interpretable communities of hospitals with mutual transferability.
We present a novel probabilistic clustering model for objects that are represented via pairwise distances and observed at different time points. The proposed method utilizes the information given by adjacent time points to find the underlying cluster structure and obtain a smooth cluster evolution. This approach allows…
We augment linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers by adding three important features: (i) we introduce a regularization constraint to induce a sparse classifier; (ii) we devise a method that partitions the positive class into clusters and selects a sparse SVM classifier for each cluster; and (iii) we develop a…
New model captures patient-level EHR data efficiently.
problem Irregular EHR code timing and lack of temporal structure.
method Latent factor point process model with Fourier-Eigen embedding.
result Efficiently captures subgroup-specific temporal patterns.
Study develops electronic phenotypes of ICU patient acuity.
problem Limited time for patient acuity assessments and imprecise clinical trajectory prediction.
method Developed electronic phenotypes using automated variable retrieval in electronic health records.
result Identified three phenotypes: persistently stable, persistently unstable, and transitioning from unstable to stable.
Outcome regressed on class labels identified by unsupervised clustering is custom in many applications. However, it is common to ignore the misclassification of class labels caused by the learning algorithm, which potentially leads to serious bias of the estimated effect parameters. Due to its generality we suggest to …
Sepsis is a life-threatening disease and one of the major causes of death in hospitals. Imaging of microcirculatory dysfunction is a promising approach for automated diagnosis of sepsis. We report a machine learning classifier capable of distinguishing non-septic and septic images from dark field microcirculation video…
Generating interpretable visualizations from complex data is a common problem in many applications. Two key ingredients for tackling this issue are clustering and representation learning. However, current methods do not yet successfully combine the strengths of these two approaches. Existing representation learning mod…
Developing reliable workload predictive models can affect many aspects of clinical decision making procedure. The primary challenge in healthcare systems is handling the demand uncertainty over the time. This issue becomes more critical for the healthcare facilities that provide service for chronic disease treatment be…
Paper tackles cancer mutation data challenges by creating useful low-dimensional representations.
problem Challenges in analyzing and using cancer mutation data for classification and clustering.
method Flatsomatic: variational autoencoders (VAEs) to create latent representations of somatic profiles.
result VAE embeddings perform better than PCA for clustering and equally well for classification.
The recent adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by health care providers has introduced an important source of data that provides detailed and highly specific insights into patient phenotypes over large cohorts. These datasets, in combination with machine learning and statistical approaches, generate new opport…
Physical activity levels are an important predictor of cardiovascular health and increasingly being measured by sensors, like accelerometers. Accelerometers produce rich multivariate data that can inform important clinical decisions related to individual patients and public health. The CHAMPION study, a study of youth …
MAGIC uncovers disease heterogeneity across brain scales.
problem Understanding distinct subtypes of brain diseases at different spatial scales.
method Multi-scale Heterogeneity Analysis and Clustering (MAGIC) using semi-supervised clustering.
result Two main subtypes of AD identified with distinct atrophy patterns.
latrend simplifies longitudinal clustering for numeric measurements.
problem Clustering of longitudinal data to identify common trends over time.
method Unified framework for applying various clustering methods.
result Facilitates comparison and rapid prototyping of new methods.
Computable Phenotypes to Characterize Changing Patient Brain Dysfunction in the Intensive Care Unitq-bio.QM
Study developed phenotypes for ICU patients' brain dysfunction states.
problem Underdiagnosis of acute brain dysfunction in ICU patients.
method Created algorithms to quantify and cluster brain dysfunction states.
result Developed three phenotypes of ICU patients' brain dysfunction states.