arXiv Machine Learning

Explaining Unsupervised Disease Staging in Huntington's Disease: Insights into Model Representations and Clusters

arXiv:2606. 07135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor, cognitive, and behavioral functions, where accurate characterization of disease progression remains essential to improve patient outcome and quality of life.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

A Machine Learning-Based Framework for Discovering Huntington's Disease Stages: Integrating Graph Representation Learning and clustering to Uncover Progression Dynamics in Longitudinal Enroll-HD Dataset

arXiv:2606. 06196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive brain disorder that gradually affects movement, cognitive function, and behavior.

By Lubna M. Abu Zohair, Marta Vallejo, MD Azher Uddin, John R. Woodward, Hind Zantout
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

xMICD: Explainable Representation of Multiple ICD Codes

arXiv:2608. 00935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are widely used for clinical risk prediction using machine learning.

By Pat Vatiwutipong, Kumkup Keeratisiwakul, Albert Phuoc Kien Van Truong, Nutcha Yodrabum, Wasin Pansiritanachot, Marvin N. Wright, Thanapon Noraset
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

A Temporal Machine Learning-Based Time-to-Event Model for Predicting ALS Progression and Healthcare Utilization

arXiv:2607. 14190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease in which predicting clinically meaningful milestones, such as assistive device use, remains challenging.

By Zongliang Yue, Qi Li, Terry Heiman-Patterson, Frank Bearoff, Zhaohui Qin, Huanmei Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Imputation-free transformer learning enables robust Alzheimer's disease prediction and calibrated uncertainty quantification across heterogeneous clinical cohorts

arXiv:2607. 11656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate diagnostic classification and disease-severity prediction for Alzheimer's disease are hampered by the incompleteness and heterogeneity of real-world clinical data.

By Christelle Schneuwly Diaz, Narmina Baghirova, Duy-Thanh Vu, Duy-Cat Can, Gilles Allali, Philippe Ryvlin, Oliver Y. Ch\'en
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Hierarchical Modeling of ICD Codes in EHR Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 15447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health record foundation models typically treat ICD diagnosis codes as flat tokens, overlooking the clinically meaningful hierarchical structure that captures disease families, subcategories, and fine-grained diagnostic detail.

By Megha Thukral, Dong Gyun Kang, Rudra Pratap Singh, Shruthi Kashinath Hiremath, Katrin H\"ansel, Thomas Pl\"otz
arXiv AI
Jun 2

A Monosemantic Attribution Framework for Stable Interpretability in Clinical Neuroscience Transformer-Based Language Models

arXiv:2601. 17952v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interpretability remains a key challenge for deploying language models (LM) in clinical settings such as progression diagnosis of Alzheimer disease, where early and trustworthy predictions are essential.

By Michail Mamalakis, Tiago Azevedo, Cristian Cosentino, Chiara D'Ercoli, Subati Abulikemu, Zhongtian Sun, Richard Bethlehem, Pietro Lio
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Dementia Etiology Diagnosis via Collaborative Meta Knowledge Enhancement

arXiv:2607. 22770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although artificial intelligence (AI) has shown promising performance in several medical tasks, accurate dementia etiology diagnosis with AI remains challenging due to complex overlapping symptoms among diseases.

By Siyuan Du, Mengxi Chen, Xinyang Jiang, Zilong Wang, Jiangchao Yao, Dongsheng Li, Ya Zhang, Lili Qiu, Yanfeng Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 8

X-FEMR: A Token-level Explainable Approach for Electronic Health Records Foundation Models using Transformer-based Models

arXiv:2607. 06163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation Models for Electronic Health Records (FEMRs) are pretrained on large-scale structured patient data, enabling them to convert longitudinal patient trajectories into generalizable representations for diverse clinical prediction tasks.

By Jie Huang, Pengfei Yin, Zihan Xu, Daniel Capurro, Mike Conway, Ting Dang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Cluster LOCO: Feature Importance For Interpreting Clusters

arXiv:2606. 14592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is widely used for exploratory analysis and scientific discovery, driving insights from market segmentation to biological data analysis, but its outputs can be difficult to interpret, audit, and reproduce as modern datasets become increasingly large and complex.

By Claire M. He, Genevera I. Allen