Summary of Multi-task Heterogeneous Graph Learning on Electronic Health Records, by Tsai Hor Chan et al.
Multi-task Heterogeneous Graph Learning on Electronic Health Records
by Tsai Hor Chan, Guosheng Yin, Kyongtae Bae, Lequan Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed MulT-EHR framework leverages a heterogeneous graph to model complex relations in electronic health records (EHRs), addressing heterogeneity, sparsity, and complexity issues. The framework uses a denoising module based on causal inference to reduce noise in EHR data and a multi-task learning module to regularize training. Experimental results show the MulT-EHR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art designs in four popular EHR analysis tasks: drug recommendation, length of stay prediction, mortality prediction, and readmission prediction. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers created a new way to analyze electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs are important because they can help doctors make accurate diagnoses. The problem is that EHRs have many different types of information, which makes it hard for computers to understand them. The researchers developed a new method called MulT-EHR that uses graphs to understand the relationships between different pieces of information in EHRs. They also added special tools to reduce noise and improve accuracy. Testing showed that MulT-EHR works better than other methods at predicting things like which medicines will work best, how long someone will stay in the hospital, whether they’ll die, or if they’ll need to go back to the hospital. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Multi task
