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The study predicts health risks of young migrants using machine learning.

problem Predicting health risks of young migrants in data-constrained environments.
method Designing a webapp for stakeholders, curating an artificially curated dataset, and experimenting with machine learning models.
result Machine learning can assist in identifying vulnerable migrants and critical factors of migration.

We propose a Bayesian model that predicts recovery curves based on information available before the disruptive event. A recovery curve of interest is the quantified sexual function of prostate cancer patients after prostatectomy surgery. We illustrate the utility of our model as a pre-treatment medical decision aid, pr…

2015-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose definitions of fairness in machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that are informed by the framework of intersectionality, a critical lens arising from the Humanities literature which analyzes how interlocking systems of power and oppression affect individuals along overlapping dimensions inclu…

2018-07-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds macroeconomic indicators predict health workforce and infrastructure measures.

problem Evaluating the predictive value of macroeconomic indicators for public health targets.
method Examined multiple forecasting approaches including neural networks, generalized additive models, random forests, and time series models with exogenous indicators.
result Macroeconomic indicators provide consistent and reproducible predictive signals for health workforce and infrastructure measures, but less so for other targets.

Study uses machine learning to predict future health from various health data types.

problem Predicting future health using diverse health data types.
method Applied machine learning (neural networks and XGBoost) to longitudinal data from 6830 individuals.
result Health-related measures were the strongest predictors of future health status, while genetic data performed poorly.

Cervical cancer is the leading gynecological malignancy worldwide. This paper presents diverse classification techniques and shows the advantage of feature selection approaches to the best predicting of cervical cancer disease. There are thirty-two attributes with eight hundred and fifty-eight samples. Besides, this da…

2018-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

One primary task of population health analysis is the identification of risk factors that, for some subpopulation, have a significant association with some health condition. Examples include finding lifestyle factors associated with chronic diseases and finding genetic mutations associated with diseases in precision he…

2018-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning can impact people with legal or ethical consequences when it is used to automate decisions in areas such as insurance, lending, hiring, and predictive policing. In many of these scenarios, previous decisions have been made that are unfairly biased against certain subpopulations, for example those of a …

2017-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Study assesses health plan risk measures for Solvency Capital Requirement.

problem Assessing risk measures for health plans to meet Solvency Capital Requirement.
method Three-part regression model with three GLMs for claim counts, episode allocation, and severity.
result Reduction in regression models compared to traditional methods.

Although there are millions of transgender people in the world, a lack of information exists about their health issues. This issue has consequences for the medical field, which only has a nascent understanding of how to identify and meet this population's health-related needs. Social media sites like Twitter provide ne…

2018-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural network predicts health costs better than traditional models.

problem Accurate prediction of healthcare costs for optimal cost management.
method Developed a deep neural network to predict future health care costs from health insurance claims records.
result Deep neural network outperformed ridge regression and Morbi-RSA models in cost prediction.

Intersectionality is a framework that analyzes how interlocking systems of power and oppression affect individuals along overlapping dimensions including race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability. Intersectionality theory therefore implies it is important that fairness in artificial intelligence systems b…

2018-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Examines fairness in ML for health, highlighting its importance and challenges.

problem Ensuring fairness in ML models for health to prevent health disparities.
method Reviews fairness notions in ML for health, including group, individual, and causal-based approaches.
result Discusses the importance and challenges of fairness in health-focused ML applications.

HealthSyn generates synthetic user behavior data for health interventions.

problem Lack of representative data for testing AI health interventions.
method Uses Markov processes to simulate diverse user actions, generating logs for ML algorithms.
result Synthetic data can be used to develop, test, and evaluate ML algorithms and RL-based interventions.

The distribution of health care payments to insurance plans has substantial consequences for social policy. Risk adjustment formulas predict spending in health insurance markets in order to provide fair benefits and health care coverage for all enrollees, regardless of their health status. Unfortunately, current risk a…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

AdaCare learns health status from biomarkers across multiple time scales.

problem Lack of explicit extraction of historical biomarker variation and adaptability to diverse patient conditions.
method Scale-adaptive feature extraction and recalibration for interpretability.
result AdaCare achieves state-of-the-art prediction accuracy and provides interpretable results.

This study evaluates a health knowledge graph for robustness in EHRs.

problem Evaluate robustness of a health knowledge graph in EHRs.
method Analyze sample size, unmeasured confounders, and non-linear functions.
result Identify sample size and unmeasured confounders as major sources of error.

DeepCoDA provides personalized interpretability for complex health data.

problem Interpreting complex health data, especially compositional data, is challenging.
method DeepCoDA framework for high-dimensional compositional data, personalized interpretability through patient-specific weights.
result DeepCoDA maintains state-of-the-art performance and provides coherent, personalized interpretations.

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.

Digital tools may hinder or facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.

problem Challenges in multidisciplinary collaboration in occupational health.
method Study of a precursor SPSTI's digital tools and their impacts.
result Digital tools can act as both brakes and levers for multidisciplinary dynamics.

Twitter has been a prominent social media platform for mining population-level health data and accurate clustering of health-related tweets into topics is important for extracting relevant health insights. In this work, we propose deep convolutional autoencoders for learning compact representations of health-related tw…

2018-12-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for efficient personalized learning in mobile health.

problem Efficient and personalized learning in mobile health.
method Proposes a novel generative process on kernel composition for online Gaussian Process regression.
result Trajectories of kernel evolutions can be transferred between users to improve learning and kernels are meaningful for mHealth prediction.

Paper proposes a method to model health outcomes using varying-coefficients and KNN-based LASSO.

problem Modeling health outcomes like BMI and cholesterol levels with varying age effects.
method Varying-coefficients regional quantile regression via KNN fused LASSO, with ADMM algorithm.
result Efficacy in capturing complex age-dependent associations between health outcomes and risk factors.

The paper develops methods for monitoring TPL machine health.

problem Inaccurate and untimely maintenance of TPL systems leads to poor quality and inefficiencies.
method Physics-informed data-driven predictive models integrated with statistical approaches.
result The methods achieve high accuracy across various scenarios and conditions.

Italy and the Eurozone are heading in the year 2012 into a financial depression of unprecedented magnitude, with a forthcoming multitude of often contradictory public economic and financial stability emergency interventions whose ultimate endogenous and exogenous effects on public and private health spending and on the…

2012-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A lack of information exists about the health issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people who are often excluded from national demographic assessments, health studies, and clinical trials. As a result, medical experts and researchers lack a holistic understanding of the health disparities fa…

2018-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Automated model assesses online health info quality using machine learning.

problem Low quality health information on the internet poses risks to patients.
method Used machine learning models, specifically hierarchical encoder attention-based neural networks (HEA) with BERT and BioBERT embeddings.
result HEA models outperform traditional models in evaluating health info quality.

Improved disability insurance model with collective health claims.

problem Enhance disability insurance model with collective health claims.
method Expand classic semi-Markov model with collective health claims, solve many-body problem using mean-field approach.
result Mean-field approach simplifies complex model into a transparent pricing method.

Semiparametric STAR model improves mental health data analysis.

problem Overdispersed, zero-inflated, bounded count data in self-reported mental health surveys.
method STAR transformation and rounding of latent Gaussian model, nonparametric transformation estimation, EM algorithm for maximum likelihood.
result Substantial improvements in goodness-of-fit compared to existing models.