Keywords: Machine Learning for Medical Applications
Abstract
Widespread use of electronic health records (EHR) led to vast amount of medical data being collected. The data is characterized by large sample size, heterogeneity of variables, unstructured information, missing information, and time-dependent variables, to name a few. These facts render commonly used statistical tools to perform analysis inadequate and require the development of sophisticated algorithms to overcome these challenges. For instance, the set of variables recorded for each patient can naturally be decomposed into groups, known as views. Most machine learning algorithms ignore this multi-view relationship. Instead, they can either be trained on each view separately or on a concatenation of all views to form a single view. Considering these relationships recently came to attention of the research community that proposed co-training, multiple kernel learning and subspace learning to address this problem. Although existing methods show promising results in their respective tasks, it is difficult to apply them to real-world clinical data, where highly heterogeneous features (continuous, categorial, ordinal) and missing values are common, because not all tests can be performed on all patients. As a result, multi-view learning algorithms have rarely been applied to medical problems.
Detailed Project Description
Winners of Prostate Cancer DREAM challenge
The goal of the Prostate Cancer DREAM challenge is to improve the prediction of survival and toxicity of docetaxel treatment in patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The primary benefit of this challenge will be to establish new quantitative benchmarks for prognostic modeling in mCRPC, with a potential impact for clinical decision making and ultimately understanding the mechanism of disease progression.
Members of the Chair of Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) participated in the challenge and were able to win one of three subchallenges. The team's predictive models was a large heterogeneous ensemble of various models. From the ensemble, we selected the best performing models according to cross-validation error and the correlation amongst prediction errors. We believe that the developed models are then fairly generalizable particularly when applied to new data. A detailed description of our solution is available at the challenge's website.
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Sebastian Pölsterl,
Sailesh Conjeti,
Amin Katouzian for available student projects within this research project.
