Summary of Contrastive Learning on Multimodal Analysis Of Electronic Health Records, by Tianxi Cai et al.
Contrastive Learning on Multimodal Analysis of Electronic Health Records
by Tianxi Cai, Feiqing Huang, Ryumei Nakada, Linjun Zhang, Doudou Zhou
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to analyzing electronic health records (EHRs) by combining structured and unstructured data modalities. The authors argue that current methods often neglect the synergy between these two types of data, which contain clinically relevant information that is inextricably linked. To address this limitation, they develop a multimodal feature embedding generative model and contrastive loss function to obtain a robust representation of EHR features. Theoretical analysis shows that multimodal learning outperforms single-modality approaches, and the authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their method through simulation studies using real-world EHR data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to use computer programs to look at medical records. It combines two kinds of information: one that’s organized into categories and another that’s just free text. The current ways of doing this don’t take into account how these different types of information are connected. To fix this, the researchers created a special kind of model that can learn from both types of data together. They tested their approach using real medical records and found it worked well. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Contrastive loss * Embedding * Generative model
