New AI model optimizes personalized care for elderly residents.
problem Limited care workforce impacts health outcomes and quality of life.
method Bandit algorithms for personalized care planning.
result Improves care quality and health outcomes through personalized care planning.
Develops a personalized reinforcement learning algorithm for dyadic health interventions.
problem Personalizing health interventions for dyadic relationships in mobile health.
method Dyadic Reinforcement Learning (dyadic RL), a Bayesian and hierarchical online algorithm.
result Established a regret bound and demonstrated empirical performance through simulations and real data.
New method evaluates personalized treatment in critical care, robust to death.
problem Truncation by death in critical care makes traditional DTR evaluation ineffective.
method Principal stratification-based approach, focusing on always-survivor value function, with a semiparametrically efficient, multiply robust estimator.
result Demonstrates robustness and efficiency of the method for personalized treatment optimization.
Neural system optimizes glucose levels in diabetics.
problem Limited research on continuous glucose maintenance devices.
method Differential predictive control with neural policy and differentiable modeling.
result Improves glucose level optimization in real-time.
Study uses LLMs to create personalized treatment plans for rare gynecological tumors.
problem Suboptimal management and poor prognosis due to low incidence and heterogeneity of rare gynecological tumors.
method Developed a digital twin system using LLMs to integrate clinical and biomarker data.
result LLM-enabled digital twins efficiently model individual patient trajectories and identify potential treatment options.
Systematic review of multimodal data challenges and solutions.
problem Challenges in integrating diverse data types for improved diagnostics and personalized care.
method Synthesizing findings from 69 studies on technical obstacles and recent methodological advances.
result Promising solutions like transfer learning, generative models, attention mechanisms, and neural architecture search.
FSPO optimizes synthetic preferences for LLM personalization.
problem Personalizing large language models for diverse users.
method FSPO reframes reward modeling as a meta-learning problem, using few labeled preferences and synthetic data.
result FSPO achieves high winrates in personalized responses, both synthetic and real.
This paper improves federated learning by selecting between global and personalized models based on uncertainty.
problem Inherent heterogeneity and diverse data distributions in federated learning.
method Introduces a new approach to federated learning that models predictive uncertainties to select between global and personalized models.
result The model performs better on out-of-distribution data and on par with state-of-the-art personalized federated learning algorithms in standard scenarios.
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.
Federated Learning (FL) refers to learning a high quality global model based on decentralized data storage, without ever copying the raw data. A natural scenario arises with data created on mobile phones by the activity of their users. Given the typical data heterogeneity in such situations, it is natural to ask how ca…
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disease impairing a person's ability to perform day to day activities. The clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease are characterized by heterogeneity in age, disease span, progression rate, impairment of memory and cognitive abilities. Due to these variabilities, …
This paper develops explainable treatment policies for RPM using clinical knowledge.
problem Barriers to adoption of DHIs and lack of interpretability in purely black-box algorithms.
method Developed a pipeline for learning explainable treatment policies using clinician-informed representations.
result Policies learned from clinician-informed representations are more efficacious and efficient than black-box policies.
RL platform enhances user journeys in healthcare apps.
problem Improving user experience and personalization in healthcare apps.
method Reinforcement learning framework for adaptive interventions.
result Significant increase in basket size through personalized recommendations.
A new framework promotes trustworthy user-generated datasets by ensuring no user benefits from misreporting.
problem Incentivizing data misreporting in user-generated datasets.
method Proposes Licchavi, a global and personalized learning framework with provable strategyproofness guarantees.
result Proves that no user can gain much by replying to Licchavi's queries with deviated answers.
Mobile technologies offer opportunities for higher resolution monitoring of health conditions. This opportunity seems of particular promise in psychiatry where diagnoses often rely on retrospective and subjective recall of mood states. However, getting actionable information from these rather complex time series is cha…
Objective: Predict patient-specific vitals deemed medically acceptable for discharge from a pediatric intensive care unit (ICU). Design: The means of each patient's hr, sbp and dbp measurements between their medical and physical discharge from the ICU were computed as a proxy for their physiologically acceptable state …
We develop a personalized real time risk scoring algorithm that provides timely and granular assessments for the clinical acuity of ward patients based on their (temporal) lab tests and vital signs. Heterogeneity of the patients population is captured via a hierarchical latent class model. The proposed algorithm aims t…
Proposes a new model for estimating individual treatment effects.
problem Estimating individual treatment effects from observational data is challenging.
method Integrates diffusion modeling and conformal inference with propensity score and covariate approximation.
result Establishes rigorous theoretical guarantees and demonstrates competitive performance.
HOLMES improves real-time model serving for ICU patients, balancing accuracy and speed.
problem Real-time model serving is crucial in ICU due to urgency and cost.
method Online model ensemble serving framework for healthcare applications.
result HOLMES achieves high accuracy and sub-second latency for model ensemble serving.
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%.
We develop a prediction-based prescriptive model for learning optimal personalized treatments for patients based on their Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Our approach consists of: (i) predicting future outcomes under each possible therapy using a robustified nonlinear model, and (ii) adopting a randomized prescriptiv…
Current clinical practice guidelines for managing Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) account for general cardiovascular risk factors. However, they do not present a framework that considers personalized patient-specific characteristics. Using the electronic health records of 21,460 patients, we created data-driven models fo…
Study predicts high-cost patients using insurance claims data.
problem Accurately identifying high-cost patients to manage costs.
method Applied machine learning to health insurance claims data.
result Developed a high-performance algorithm with 91.2% AUC.
Personalized predictive medicine necessitates the modeling of patient illness and care processes, which inherently have long-term temporal dependencies. Healthcare observations, recorded in electronic medical records, are episodic and irregular in time. We introduce DeepCare, an end-to-end deep dynamic neural network t…
Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a chronic mental illness characterized by extreme mood and energy changes from mania to depression. These changes drive behaviors that often lead to devastating personal or social consequences. BPD is managed clinically with regular interactions with care providers, who assess mood, energy lev…
CAPITAL algorithm identifies optimal patient subgroups for better treatment.
problem Identify maximum number of patients benefiting from better treatment.
method Constrained Policy Tree Search (CAPITAL) algorithm to find optimal subgroup selection rule (SSR).
result Maximizes the number of patients with enhanced treatment effects.
SAFER improves personalized treatment recommendations for dynamic clinical contexts.
problem Personalized treatment optimization in evolving clinical contexts with safety concerns.
method Integrates structured EHR and clinical notes, uses conformal prediction for safe recommendations.
result SAFER outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in recommendation metrics and mortality rates.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease that often results in multiple complications. Risk prediction and profiling of T2DM complications is critical for healthcare professionals to design personalized treatment plans for patients in diabetes care for improved outcomes. In this paper, we study the risk of …
A treatment regime is a function that maps individual patient information to a recommended treatment, hence explicitly incorporating the heterogeneity in need for treatment across individuals. Patient responses are dichotomous and can be predicted through an unknown relationship that depends on the patient information …
Develops methods to learn optimal treatment regimes using causal tree methods.
problem Lack of methods for estimating treatment effects and handling complex patient data.
method Causal tree and causal forest methods for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in cumulative regret and percentage of optimal decisions.
When devising a course of treatment for a patient, doctors often have little quantitative evidence on which to base their decisions, beyond their medical education and published clinical trials. Stanford Health Care alone has millions of electronic medical records (EMRs) that are only just recently being leveraged to i…
Owe to the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence especially deep learning, many data-driven decision support systems have been implemented to facilitate medical doctors in delivering personalized care. We focus on the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) models in this paper. DRL models have demonstrated human-le…
The paper explores how machine learning personalization aligns with humanistic views of the person.
problem Aligning machine learning personalization with humanistic views of the person.
method Explicating the concept of personalization and contrasting it with humanistic views of the person.
result Proposes dimensions for evaluating the degree of personalization of ML personalized scores.
Adaptive personalized federated learning improves local model personalization.
problem Maximizing global model performance limits local model personalization.
method APFL algorithm trains local models while contributing to global model, with optimal mixing parameter and communication-efficient optimization.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of personalization schema and correctness of generalization theories.
A new personality-based recommender system tackles data sparsity without feedback.
problem Data sparsity without common feedback among users.
method Implicitly identifying users' personality type and incorporating it with personal interests and knowledge level.
result The model's effectiveness, especially in data sparsity situations, demonstrated on a real-world dataset.
LogGENE uses log-cosh loss for deep learning in gene expression datasets, improving accuracy and interpretability.
problem Mining large gene expression datasets for reliable deep learning predictions.
method Develops a smooth alternative to check loss (log-cosh) for quantile regression in gene expression datasets.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in accuracy and provides robust uncertainty estimates.
Framework generates personalized insulin treatment strategies using deep models.
problem Developing optimal personalized treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
method Combines deep generative time series models with decision theory.
result Demonstrated improved personalized insulin treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
FMP improves personalized ASR models on private devices.
problem Limited accuracy and privacy in federated fine-tuning of ASR models.
method FMP estimates global and personalized marginal distributions and adjusts NNLM probabilities.
result FMP achieves modest WER reductions on ASR rescoring tasks.
Model predicts COVID-19 growth in Senegal, highlighting health care capacity importance.
problem Impact of health care capacity on COVID-19 growth in Senegal.
method Compartmental model with logistic growth health care capacity, machine learning projection.
result Condition to avoid overwhelming health care system provided.
Federated learning is a distributed, on-device computation framework that enables training global models without exporting sensitive user data to servers. In this work, we describe methods to extend the federation framework to evaluate strategies for personalization of global models. We present tools to analyze the eff…
Background doesn't affect personality predictions in deep networks.
problem Understanding how background images influence personality attribution in deep learning models.
method Explicitly studied the effect of background images on personality prediction in deep residual networks, controlling for confounds.
result Adding background information to input decreases model performance for personality trait prediction.
Generative framework unifies and improves personalized learning and estimation methods.
problem Statistical heterogeneity in client data motivates personalized learning models.
method Generative framework unifies and suggests new personalized learning and estimation algorithms.
result AdaPeD algorithm numerically outperforms known algorithms.
A new federated multi-armed bandit framework with personalization balances generalization and personalization.
problem Balancing generalization and personalization in federated multi-armed bandits.
method Proposed a Personalized Federated Upper Confidence Bound (PF-UCB) algorithm to achieve a O(log(T)) regret. result PF-UCB achieves an O(log(T)) regret regardless of personalization degree and has similar instance dependency to lower bound. Analyzes COVID-19 data to predict mortality, forecast spread, and optimize resource allocation.
problem Challenges in patient triage, treatment, and care management during the pandemic.
method Integrated four-step approach combining descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
result Optimized resource allocation and informed policy decisions.
The health outcomes of high-need patients can be substantially influenced by the degree of patient engagement in their own care. The role of care managers includes that of enrolling patients into care programs and keeping them sufficiently engaged in the program, so that patients can attain various goals. The attainmen…
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a popular personality metric that uses four dichotomies as indicators of personality traits. This paper examines the use of pre-trained language models to predict MBTI personality types based on scraped labeled texts. The proposed model reaches an accuracy of 0.47 for correct…
Unified proof for scalable personalized federated learning.
problem Personalized federated learning under asynchronous updates.
method Unified proof for asynchronous federated learning with bounded staleness applied to MAML and ME personalization frameworks.
result Unified proof for convergence to first-order stationary point for smooth and non-convex functions.
Explanation in machine learning and related fields such as artificial intelligence aims at making machine learning models and their decisions understandable to humans. Existing work suggests that personalizing explanations might help to improve understandability. In this work, we derive a conceptualization of personali…