Interpretable instance disease prediction based on causal feature selection and effect analysis.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the big wave of artificial intelligence sweeping the world, machine learning has made great achievements in healthcare in the past few years, however, these methods are only based on correlation, not causation. The particularities of the healthcare determines that the research method must comply with the causality norm, otherwise the wrong intervention measures may bring the patients a lifetime of misfortune.

Authors

  • Yuwen Chen
    QPS Taiwan, Center of Toxicology and Preclinical Sciences, No. 103, Lane 169, Kangning Street, Xizhi District, New Taipei City 221, Taiwan.
  • Ju Zhang
    Department of Mathematics and Numerical Simulation and High-Performance Computing Laboratory, School of Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China.
  • XiaoLin Qin
    Chengdu Institute of Computer Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China. keyanche@163.com.