Algorithm detects surgical site infections from hospital data.
problem Reduces incidence of surgical site infections in hospitals.
method Machine learning algorithms trained on hospital data.
result Identifies all SSIs with minimal false positives.
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A large fraction of the electronic health records consists of clinical measurements collected over time, such as blood tests, which provide important information about the health status of a patient. These sequences of clinical measurements are naturally represented as time series, characterized by multiple variables a…
Clinical measurements collected over time are naturally represented as multivariate time series (MTS), which often contain missing data. An autoencoder can learn low dimensional vectorial representations of MTS that preserve important data characteristics, but cannot deal explicitly with missing data. In this work, we …
Modeling infection hotspots to quantify effects of contact tracing and testing.
problem Capturing the role of infection hotspots in disease transmission.
method Temporal point process modeling framework to represent visits and disease transmission.
result Estimation of transmission rates at sites and households using Bayesian optimization.
Information diffusion and virus propagation are fundamental processes taking place in networks. While it is often possible to directly observe when nodes become infected with a virus or adopt the information, observing individual transmissions (i.e., who infects whom, or who influences whom) is typically very difficult…
The positive-unlabeled (PU) classification is a common scenario in real-world applications such as healthcare, text classification, and bioinformatics, in which we only observe a few samples labeled as "positive" together with a large volume of "unlabeled" samples that may contain both positive and negative samples. Bu…
Automated surgical workflow analysis and understanding can assist surgeons to standardize procedures and enhance post-surgical assessment and indexing, as well as, interventional monitoring. Computer-assisted interventional (CAI) systems based on video can perform workflow estimation through surgical instruments' recog…
Method detects surgical deviations during laparoscopic rectopexy.
problem Detecting deviations from standard surgical processes during laparoscopic rectopexy.
method Multi-dimensional non-linear temporal scaling with a hidden semi-Markov model.
result Over 90% accuracy in detecting deviations.
Surgeons normally need surgical scissors and tissue grippers to cut through a deformable surgical tissue. The cutting accuracy depends on the skills to manipulate these two tools. Such skills are part of basic surgical skills training as in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery. The gripper is used to pinch a point …
Paper proposes an active learning method for surgical workflow recognition using long-range temporal dependency.
problem Challenges in automatic surgical workflow recognition due to lack of large-scale labelled datasets.
method NL-RCNet with non-local block for capturing long-range temporal dependency and intra-clip dependency score for selection.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods by selecting only 50% of samples for training.
Over the past one hundred years, the classic teaching methodology of "see one, do one, teach one" has governed the surgical education systems worldwide. With the advent of Operation Room 2.0, recording video, kinematic and many other types of data during the surgery became an easy task, thus allowing artificial intelli…
Purpose: Manual feedback from senior surgeons observing less experienced trainees is a laborious task that is very expensive, time-consuming and prone to subjectivity. With the number of surgical procedures increasing annually, there is an unprecedented need to provide an accurate, objective and automatic evaluation of…
The paper uses facial keypoints to estimate post-surgical pain intensity.
problem Accurately assessing pain levels from self-reported ratings is challenging.
method The approach analyzes 2D and 3D facial keypoints to estimate pain intensity.
result The pain estimation model uses multiple instance learning.
Study reveals hidden infections and infection dynamics from early data.
problem Understanding early infection dynamics and hidden infections in COVID-19.
method Data-driven machine learning analysis focusing on infection counts over time.
result Significant asymptomatic infections, 10-day lag, and strong infectious force.
PHASE predicts surgical complications from physiological signals.
problem Predicting adverse surgical outcomes from physiological signals.
method Self-supervised transfer learning for physiological signals.
result PHASE outperforms other approaches in predicting five surgical complications.
A new model characterizes undocumented and asymptomatic infections to quantify COVID-19 uncertainties.
problem Quantifying uncertainties in COVID-19 infections and contagion.
method SUDR model: characterizes undocumented and documented infections, captures probabilistic density, and incorporates Bayesian inference.
result Demonstrates deeper understanding of COVID-19 uncertainties compared to classic models.
Satellite constructions on a knot can be thought of as taking some strands of a knot and then tying in another knot. Using satellite constructions one can construct many distinct isotopy classes of knots. Pushing this further one can construct distinct concordance classes of knots which preserve some algebraic invarian…
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.
Bayesian methods improve group testing for identifying infected patients.
problem Identifying infected patients from group testing results with false positives.
method Bayesian inference and belief propagation algorithm, combined with expectation-maximization method.
result True-positive rate improved by considering credible intervals.
CRISP predicts individual-level COVID-19 risk based on contact data.
problem Estimating individual-level infection risk during the pandemic.
method Probabilistic graphical model using SEIR framework with contact data.
result Model accurately predicts infection spread and recovery times.
We aim to create a framework for transfer learning using latent factor models to learn the dependence structure between a larger source dataset and a target dataset. The methodology is motivated by our goal of building a risk-assessment model for surgery patients, using both institutional and national surgical outcomes…
Deep learning identifies transcriptomic patterns and cell types associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity.
problem Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 varies in infecting and causing severe COVID-19.
method Developed a new approach to generating self-supervised edge features, using Graph Attention Networks (GAT) and Set Transformer.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in predicting disease state of individual cells using single-cell RNA sequencing data.
Learning to Infer Unobserved Behaviors: Estimating User's Preference for a Site over Other Sitescs.IR
Estimates users' preference for a site over others using engagement data.
problem Lack of data on users' interactions with other sites makes it hard to estimate preferences for a focal site.
method Uses Hierarchical Bayes Method with two estimation techniques: Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Stochastic Gradient with Langevin Dynamics.
result Good support found for the approach to computing personalized share of engagement.
Paper proposes a new method for more accurate group testing of infected patients.
problem Identifying infected patients efficiently with reduced tests and corrected errors.
method Adaptive design of pools based on Bayesian posterior prediction using belief propagation algorithm.
result The proposed method results in more accurate identification of infected patients.
Vision algorithms capable of interpreting scenes from a real-time video stream are necessary for computer-assisted surgery systems to achieve context-aware behavior. In laparoscopic procedures one particular algorithm needed for such systems is the identification of surgical phases, for which the current state of the a…
Detection of malware-infected computers and detection of malicious web domains based on their encrypted HTTPS traffic are challenging problems, because only addresses, timestamps, and data volumes are observable. The detection problems are coupled, because infected clients tend to interact with malicious domains. Traff…
Evaluating surgeon skill has predominantly been a subjective task. Development of objective methods for surgical skill assessment are of increased interest. Recently, with technological advances such as robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), new opportunities for objective and automated assessment framewor…
Machine learning augmented diagnostic testing to identify sources of variability in test performancecs.LG
Machine learning improves diagnostic test accuracy for bovine tuberculosis.
problem Improving diagnostic test sensitivity for bovine tuberculosis.
method Machine learning to assess risk landscapes and predict infection.
result Test sensitivity improved, detecting 240 more infected herds per year.
A time-dependent SIR model predicts COVID-19 spread and herd immunity.
problem Modeling and predicting COVID-19 spread and herd immunity.
method Time-dependent SIR model with 2 types of infected persons (detectable and undetectable).
result The model accurately predicts the turning point and herd immunity threshold.
Paper introduces OTR for efficient offline RL in surgical robotics.
problem Lack of annotated datasets for offline RL in surgical robotics.
method OTR algorithm using Optimal Transport to assign rewards to unlabeled trajectories.
result OTR enables efficient policy learning from large datasets without handcrafted rewards.
New Milnor's invariant condition for topologically slice links.
problem Conditions for topologically slice links involving Milnor's invariant.
method Different Milnor's invariant condition to handle cases not covered by previous theorem.
result New sufficient conditions for topologically slice links.
LSTM models predict low likelihood of another COVID-19 wave in India.
problem Inaccurate and unreliable COVID-19 infection forecasting models due to data limitations and model complexity.
method Application of LSTM, bidirectional LSTM, and encoder-decoder LSTM models for multi-step infection forecasting.
result Predictions indicate low likelihood of another wave in October and November 2021.
Novel method combines neural network features with survival models for ICU infections.
problem Improving predictive models of ICU infections while maintaining interpretability.
method Semi-parametric approach combining low-resolution and high-resolution data.
result Improved predictive power with interpretability maintained.
Budney recently constructed an operad that encodes splicing of knots. He further showed that the space of (long) knots is generated over this operad by the space of torus knots and hyperbolic knots, thus generalizing the satellite decomposition of knots from isotopy classes to the level of the space of knots. Infection…
We consider the problem of learning the weighted edges of a graph by observing the noisy times of infection for multiple epidemic cascades on this graph. Past work has considered this problem when the cascade information, i.e., infection times, are known exactly. Though the noisy setting is well motivated by many epide…
Site-specific recombination is an enzymatic process where two sites of precise sequence and orientation along a circle come together, are cleaved, and the ends are recombined. Site-specific recombination on a knotted substrate produces another knot or a two-component link depending on the relative orientation of the si…
We give a criterion under which a solution g(t) of the Kahler-Ricci flow contracts exceptional divisors on a compact manifold and can be uniquely continued on a new manifold. As t tends to the singular time T from each direction, we prove convergence of g(t) in the sense of Gromov-Hausdorff and smooth convergence away …
Learning Sequential Decisions from Multiple Sources via Group-Robust Markov Decision Processesstat.ME
Paper tackles robust decision-making from multiple sites with shared structure.
problem Learning robust sequential decisions from heterogeneous multi-site datasets.
method Group-Robust MDPs with d-rectangular uncertainty sets, feature-wise worst-case aggregation, and cluster-level pooling.
result Proves suboptimality bound for robust planning policy under robust partial coverage assumption.
Machine learning detects and diagnoses coughs for respiratory infections.
problem Detecting and diagnosing coughs for respiratory infections.
method Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect cough events and diagnose three illnesses.
result Accuracy over 89% for detection and diagnosis.
Clinical AI models fail to transfer between sites due to site-specific practices.
problem Clinical AI models perform poorly at new sites.
method Identify and isolate site-specific clinical practices affecting data distribution.
result A potential solution to improve model transferability.
Study of influenza A virus spread using mathematical equations.
problem Understanding the spread of influenza A virus infection.
method Mathematical model and analysis of dynamical system.
result Surface trajectories and asymptotic behavior of the system.
A novel machine learning optimization process coined Restrictive Federated Model Selection (RFMS) is proposed under the scenario, for example, when data from healthcare units can not leave the site it is situated on and it is forbidden to carry out training algorithms on remote data sites due to either technical or pri…
A novel framework synthesizes treatment data across sites using optimal transport.
problem Estimating treatment effects across different sites with varying conditions.
method Distributional causal inference, Optimal Transport for alignment of control group distributions.
result Synthetic treatment group data aligns with true target distribution under general conditions.
Paper identifies key CpG methylation sites for breast cancer.
problem Early detection and treatment of breast cancer.
method Used machine learning on TCGA dataset to classify cancer vs. non-cancer samples.
result Reduced model with 25 key CpG sites achieves over 94% accuracy.
Meta-analysis improves personalized treatment rules across multiple sites.
problem Lack of generalizability in learning individualized treatment rules across different medical sites.
method Developed a method for individual-level meta-analysis of ITRs, borrowing sign-coherency information between sites.
result Jointly learned site-specific ITRs with improved generalizability.
Acute respiratory infections have epidemic and pandemic potential and thus are being studied worldwide, albeit in many different contexts and study formats. Predicting infection from symptom data is critical, though using symptom data from varied studies in aggregate is challenging because the data is collected in diff…
New group testing method uses Belief Propagation for accurate screening.
problem Efficiently identifying infected samples in large groups with minimal tests.
method Belief Propagation algorithm for inference in group testing schemes.
result Significantly increased accuracy of infection identification with fewer tests.
Despite spectacular advances in defining invariants for simply connected smooth and symplectic 4-dimensional manifolds and the discovery of effective surgical techniques, we still have been unable to classify simply connected smooth manifolds up to diffeomorphism. In these notes, adapted from six lectures given at the …