Title
Causal Phenotype Discovery via Deep Networks.
Abstract
The rapid growth of digital health databases has attracted many researchers interested in using modern computational methods to discover and model patterns of health and illness in a research program known as computational phenotyping. Much of the work in this area has focused on traditional statistical learning paradigms, such as classification, prediction, clustering, pattern mining. In this paper, we propose a related but different paradigm called causal phenotype discovery, which aims to discover latent representations of illness that are causally predictive. We illustrate this idea with a two-stage framework that combines the latent representation learning power of deep neural networks with state-of-the-art tools from causal inference. We apply this framework to two large ICU time series data sets and show that it can learn features that are predictively useful, that capture complex physiologic patterns associated with critical illnesses, and that are potentially more clinically meaningful than manually designed features.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
AMIA
Data science,Sociology of health and illness,Causal inference,Time series,Computer science,Digital health,Statistical learning,Cluster analysis,Deep neural networks,Feature learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
2015
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Kale122013.58
Zhengping Che216310.78
Mohammad Taha Bahadori338319.60
wenzhe li4675.53
Yan Liu52551189.16
Randall C. Wetzel618211.24