Deep Learning Models for Health Care - Challenges and Solutions

Introduction

It is widely believed that deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques will fundamentally change healthcare industries. Even though recent development in deep learning has achieved successes in many applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and so on, healthcare applications pose many significantly different challenges to existing deep learning models. Examples include but not are limited to interpretations for prediction, heterogeneity in data, missing value, multi-rate multi-resolution data, big and small data, and privacy issues. In this tutorial, we will discuss a series of problems in healthcare that can benefit from deep learning models, the challenges as well as recent advances in addressing those. We will also include data sets and demos of working systems.

Goals

● Introduce diverse types of healthcare data

● Overview different ML problems for healthcare applications

● Explain the technical challenges for applying deep learning for healthcare applications

Recently, there are substantially growing interest in ML in health applications, thanks to the heterogeneous healthcare data such as electronic health records, medical images, clinical notes and continuous monitoring data. The analytic problems in healthcare pose many unique ML challenges that are worth discussing.

Target audience

The tutorial is targeted at researchers in machine learning as well as researchers working on the health-related applications. It will also attract a broader of audience who work on applying deep learning models to applications with heterogeneous data. The prerequisites include graduate-level machine learning classes and basic knowledge on deep learning.

Tutorial Resources

Slides: [PDF]

Related publications from the presenters:

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2. Deep Computational Phenotyping. Zhengping Che, David Kale, Wenzhe Li, Mohammad Taha Bahadori, and Yan Liu. Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2015.
3. RETAIN: Interpretable Predictive Model in Healthcare Using Reverse Time Attention Mechanism. Choi, Edward, Mohammad Taha Bahadori, Andy Schuetz, Walter F. Stewart, and Jimeng Sun, NIPS’16
4. Multi-layer Representation Learning for Medical Concepts. Edward Choi, Mohammad Bahadori, Elizabeth Searles, Catherine Coffey, Michael Thompson, James Bost, Javier Tejedor-Sojo,and Jimeng Sun, KDD 16.
5. Interpretable Deep Models for ICU Outcome Prediction. Zhengping Che, Sanjay Purushotham, Robinder Khemani, and Yan Liu. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA), 2016.
6. Recurrent Neural Networks for Multivariate Time Series with Missing Values. Zhengping Che, Sanjay Purushotham, Kyunghyun Cho, David Sontag, and Yan Liu. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.01865, 2016.
7. Real-time Detection and Exploratory Discovery of Anomalies for Pediatric Ventilator Management. Tanachat Nilanon, Yan Liu, Justin Hotz and Robinder Khemani, Proceedings of Machine Learning in Health Care (MLHC), 2016.
8. Normal / Abnormal Heart Sound Recordings Classification Using Deep Recurrent Neural Network. Tanachat Nilanon, Sanjay Purushotham and Yan Liu. Proceedings of the Computing in Cardiology (CinC), 2016.
9. Distilling Knowledge from Deep Networks with Applications to Computational Phenotyping. Zhengping Che, Sanjay Purushotham, and Yan Liu. Workshop on Data Science, Learning and Applications to Biomedical and Health Sciences (DSLA-BHS), 2016.
10. Distilling Knowledge from Deep Networks with Applications to Healthcare Domain. Zhengping Che, Sanjay Purushotham, and Yan Liu. NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Healthcare (NIPS-MLHC), 2015.
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