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most citedA Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning for Health

253 citations · 330 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

stat.ML2025

Doubly Robust Monte Carlo Tree Search

Manqing Liu, Andrew L. Beam

We present Doubly Robust Monte Carlo Tree Search (DR-MCTS), a novel algorithm that integrates Doubly Robust (DR) off-policy estimation into Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to enhanc…

stat.ML2024

Deep Learning Methods for the Noniterative Conditional Expectation G-Formula for Causal Inference from Complex Observational Data

Sophia M Rein, Jing Li, Miguel Hernan +1

The g-formula can be used to estimate causal effects of sustained treatment strategies using observational data under the identifying assumptions of consistency, positivity, and ex…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

DAG-aware Transformer for Causal Effect Estimation

Manqing Liu, David R. Bellamy, Andrew L. Beam

Causal inference is a critical task across fields such as healthcare, economics, and the social sciences. While recent advances in machine learning, especially those based on the d…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

The Need for Guardrails with Large Language Models in Medical Safety-Critical Settings: An Artificial Intelligence Application in the Pharmacovigilance Ecosystem

Joe B Hakim, Jeffery L Painter, Darmendra Ramcharran +6

Large language models (LLMs) are useful tools with the capacity for performing specific types of knowledge work at an effective scale. However, LLM deployments in high-risk and saf…

cs.CL2024★ 37 cited

Large Language Models in Mental Health Care: a Scoping Review

Yining Hua, Fenglin Liu, Kailai Yang +9

Objectieve:This review aims to deliver a comprehensive analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs) utilization in mental health care, evaluating their effectiveness, identifying chall…

cs.CL2023

Labrador: Exploring the Limits of Masked Language Modeling for Laboratory Data

David R. Bellamy, Bhawesh Kumar, Cindy Wang +1

In this work we introduce Labrador, a pre-trained Transformer model for laboratory data. Labrador and BERT were pre-trained on a corpus of 100 million lab test results from electro…

cs.CL2023★ 14 cited

Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering

Bhawesh Kumar, Charlie Lu, Gauri Gupta +4

As large language models continue to be widely developed, robust uncertainty quantification techniques will become crucial for their safe deployment in high-stakes scenarios. In th…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

TIER: Text-Image Entropy Regularization for CLIP-style models

Anil Palepu, Andrew L. Beam

In this paper, we introduce a novel regularization scheme on contrastive language-image pre-trained (CLIP) medical vision models. Our approach is based on the observation that on m…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Towards Reliable Zero Shot Classification in Self-Supervised Models with Conformal Prediction

Bhawesh Kumar, Anil Palepu, Rudraksh Tuwani +1

Self-supervised models trained with a contrastive loss such as CLIP have shown to be very powerful in zero-shot classification settings. However, to be used as a zero-shot classifi…

cs.LG2022

Self-Supervision on Images and Text Reduces Reliance on Visual Shortcut Features

Anil Palepu, Andrew L Beam

Deep learning models trained in a fully supervised manner have been shown to rely on so-called "shortcut" features. Shortcut features are inputs that are associated with the outcom…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

MedSelect: Selective Labeling for Medical Image Classification Combining Meta-Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Akshay Smit, Damir Vrabac, Yujie He +3

We propose a selective learning method using meta-learning and deep reinforcement learning for medical image interpretation in the setting of limited labeling resources. Our method…

cs.LG2020★ 14 cited

Evaluating Progress on Machine Learning for Longitudinal Electronic Healthcare Data

David Bellamy, Leo Celi, Andrew L. Beam

The Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge based on the well-known Imagenet dataset catalyzed an intense flurry of progress in computer vision. Benchmark tasks have propelled oth…

cs.LG2018★ 253 cited

A Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning for Health

Marzyeh Ghassemi, Tristan Naumann, Peter Schulam +3

Modern electronic health records (EHRs) provide data to answer clinically meaningful questions. The growing data in EHRs makes healthcare ripe for the use of machine learning. Howe…