"Health care"

Anchored Discrete Factor Analysis

We present a semi-supervised learning algorithm for learning discrete factor analysis models with arbitrary structure on the latent variables. Our algorithm assumes that every latent variable has an \"anchor\", an observed variable with only that …

Deep Kalman Filters

Kalman Filters are one of the most influential models of time-varying phenomena. They admit an intuitive probabilistic interpretation, have a simple functional form, and enjoy widespread adoption in a variety of disciplines. Motivated by recent …

Predicting chronic comorbid conditions of type 2 diabetes in Newly-Diagnosed Diabetic Patients

Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks for Diagnosis from Lab Tests

Early diagnosis of treatable diseases is essential for improving healthcare, and many diseases’ onsets are predictable from annual lab tests and their temporal trends. We introduce a multi-resolution convolutional neural network for early detection …

Visual Exploration of Temporal Data in Electronic Medical Records

Unsupervised Learning of Disease Progression Models

Chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease, Diabetes, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, usually progress slowly over a long period of time, causing increasing burden to the patients, their families, and the healthcare system. A better …

Using Anchors to Estimate Clinical State without Labeled Data

We present a novel framework for learning to estimate and predict clinical state variables without labeled data. The resulting models can used for electronic phenotyping, triggering clinical decision support, and cohort selection. The framework …

Discovering Hidden Variables in Noisy-Or Networks using Quartet Tests

We give a polynomial-time algorithm for provably learning the structure and parameters of bipartite noisy-or Bayesian networks of binary variables where the top layer is completely hidden. Unsupervised learning of these models is a form of discrete …

Predicting Chief Complaints at Triage Time in the Emergency Department

As hospitals increasingly use electronic medical records for research and quality improvement, it is important to provide ways to structure medical data without losing either expressiveness or time. We present a system that helps achieve this goal by …

Unsupervised Learning of Noisy-Or Bayesian Networks

This paper considers the problem of learning the parameters in Bayesian networks of discrete variables with known structure and hidden variables. Previous approaches in these settings typically use expectation maximization; when the network has high …