AIMC Topic: Causality

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Integrating Nearest Neighbors with Neural Network Models for Treatment Effect Estimation.

International journal of neural systems
Treatment effect estimation is of high-importance for both researchers and practitioners across many scientific and industrial domains. The abundance of observational data makes them increasingly used by researchers for the estimation of causal effec...

Estimation of separable direct and indirect effects in a continuous-time illness-death model.

Lifetime data analysis
In this article we study the effect of a baseline exposure on a terminal time-to-event outcome either directly or mediated by the illness state of a continuous-time illness-death process with baseline covariates. We propose a definition of the corres...

Predicting molecular mechanisms of hereditary diseases by using their tissue-selective manifestation.

Molecular systems biology
How do aberrations in widely expressed genes lead to tissue-selective hereditary diseases? Previous attempts to answer this question were limited to testing a few candidate mechanisms. To answer this question at a larger scale, we developed "Tissue R...

Frameworks for estimating causal effects in observational settings: comparing confounder adjustment and instrumental variables.

BMC medical research methodology
To estimate causal effects, analysts performing observational studies in health settings utilize several strategies to mitigate bias due to confounding by indication. There are two broad classes of approaches for these purposes: use of confounders an...

Well-being impact assessment of artificial intelligence - A search for causality and proposal for an open platform for well-being impact assessment of AI systems.

Evaluation and program planning
In recent years, the well-being impact assessment approach has been applied in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Existing well-being frameworks and tools provide a relevant starting point. Taking into account its multidimensional nature, well...

Learning end-to-end patient representations through self-supervised covariate balancing for causal treatment effect estimation.

Journal of biomedical informatics
A causal effect can be defined as a comparison of outcomes that result from two or more alternative actions, with only one of the action-outcome pairs actually being observed. In healthcare, the gold standard for causal effect measurements is randomi...

An introduction to causal inference for pharmacometricians.

CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology
As formal causal inference begins to play a greater role in disciplines that intersect with pharmacometrics, such as biostatistics, epidemiology, and artificial intelligence/machine learning, pharmacometricians may increasingly benefit from a basic f...

Emulate randomized clinical trials using heterogeneous treatment effect estimation for personalized treatments: Methodology review and benchmark.

Journal of biomedical informatics
Big data and (deep) machine learning have been ambitious tools in digital medicine, but these tools focus mainly on association. Intervention in medicine is about the causal effects. The average treatment effect has long been studied as a measure of ...

A Flexible Approach for Assessing Heterogeneity of Causal Treatment Effects on Patient Survival Using Large Datasets with Clustered Observations.

International journal of environmental research and public health
Personalized medicine requires an understanding of treatment effect heterogeneity. Evolving toward causal evidence for scenarios not studied in randomized trials necessitates a methodology using real-world evidence. Herein, we demonstrate a methodolo...

Deep mendelian randomization: Investigating the causal knowledge of genomic deep learning models.

PLoS computational biology
Multi-task deep learning (DL) models can accurately predict diverse genomic marks from sequence, but whether these models learn the causal relationships between genomic marks is unknown. Here, we describe Deep Mendelian Randomization (DeepMR), a meth...