Causal inference and counterfactual prediction in machine learning for actionable healthcare

M Prosperi, Y Guo, M Sperrin, JS Koopman… - Nature Machine …, 2020 - nature.com
Big data, high-performance computing, and (deep) machine learning are increasingly
becoming key to precision medicine—from identifying disease risks and taking preventive …

The myth of generalisability in clinical research and machine learning in health care

J Futoma, M Simons, T Panch, F Doshi-Velez… - The Lancet Digital …, 2020 - thelancet.com
An emphasis on overly broad notions of generalisability as it pertains to applications of
machine learning in health care can overlook situations in which machine learning might …

Comparison of deep learning approaches to predict COVID-19 infection

TB Alakus, I Turkoglu - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
The SARS-CoV2 virus, which causes COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) has become a
pandemic and has expanded all over the world. Because of increasing number of cases day …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the prediction of hospital length of stay: Towards a unified framework

K Stone, R Zwiggelaar, P Jones… - PLOS Digital …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Hospital length of stay of patients is a crucial factor for the effective planning and
management of hospital resources. There is considerable interest in predicting the LoS of …

Intelligible models for healthcare: Predicting pneumonia risk and hospital 30-day readmission

R Caruana, Y Lou, J Gehrke, P Koch, M Sturm… - Proceedings of the 21th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In machine learning often a tradeoff must be made between accuracy and intelligibility. More
accurate models such as boosted trees, random forests, and neural nets usually are not …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking deep learning models on large healthcare datasets

S Purushotham, C Meng, Z Che, Y Liu - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2018 - Elsevier
Deep learning models (aka Deep Neural Networks) have revolutionized many fields
including computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and is being …

Improving palliative care with deep learning

A Avati, K Jung, S Harman, L Downing, A Ng… - BMC medical informatics …, 2018 - Springer
Background Access to palliative care is a key quality metric which most healthcare
organizations strive to improve. The primary challenges to increasing palliative care access …

Comparing deep learning and concept extraction based methods for patient phenotyping from clinical narratives

S Gehrmann, F Dernoncourt, Y Li, ET Carlson, JT Wu… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
In secondary analysis of electronic health records, a crucial task consists in correctly
identifying the patient cohort under investigation. In many cases, the most valuable and …

Multitask learning

R Caruana - Machine learning, 1997 - Springer
Multitask Learning is an approach to inductive transfer that improves generalization by using
the domain information contained in the training signals of related tasks as an inductive bias …

An empirical comparison of supervised learning algorithms

R Caruana, A Niculescu-Mizil - … of the 23rd international conference on …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
A number of supervised learning methods have been introduced in the last decade.
Unfortunately, the last comprehensive empirical evaluation of supervised learning was the …