AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Pediatric sepsis imposes a significant burden of morbidity and mortality among children. While the speedy application of existing supportive care measures can substantially improve outcomes, further improvements in delivering that care require tools ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Clinical notes are an efficient way to record patient information but are notoriously hard to decipher for non-experts. Automatically simplifying medical text can empower patients with valuable information about their health, while saving clinicians ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Early detection and mitigation of disease recurrence in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is a nontrivial problem that is typically addressed either by rather generic follow-up screening guidelines, self-reporting, simple nomograms, or by m...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of mortality. Accurately monitoring HF progress and adjusting therapies are critical for improving patient outcomes. An experienced cardiologist can make accurate HF stage diagnoses based on combination of symptoms...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
The central task of causal inference is to remove (via statistical adjustment) confounding bias that would be present in naive unadjusted comparisons of outcomes in different treatment groups. Statistical adjustment can roughly be broken down into tw...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Chronic diabetes can lead to microvascular complications, including diabetic eye disease, diabetic kidney disease, and diabetic neuropathy. However, the long-term complications often remain undetected at the early stages of diagnosis. Developing a ma...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
The wide availability of near infrared light sources in interventional medical imaging stacks enables non-invasive quantification of perfusion by using fluorescent dyes, typically Indocyanine Green (ICG). Due to their often leaky and chaotic vasculat...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss. Some patients experience vision loss over a delayed timeframe, others at a rapid pace. Physicians analyze time-of-visit fundus photographs to predict patient risk of developi...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Despite impressive success of machine learning algorithms in clinical natural language processing (cNLP), rule-based approaches still have a prominent role. In this paper, we introduce medspaCy, an extensible, open-source cNLP library based on spaCy ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
We develop various AI models to predict hospitalization on a large (over 110k) cohort of COVID-19 positive-tested US patients, sourced from March 2020 to February 2021. Models range from Random Forest to Neural Network (NN) and Time Convolutional NN,...