arXiv:2604. 07085v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In electronic health records (EHRs), clustering patients and distinguishing disease subtypes are key tasks to elucidate pathophysiology and aid clinical decision-making.
arXiv:2608. 00346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data imbalance poses a major challenge in supervised classification, where the majority-class bias contributes to false negatives and overestimates classification accuracy.
arXiv:2403.14830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep clustering partitions complex high-dimensional data using deep neural networks for clustering. It involves projecting data into lower-dimensio...
The paper examines whether Deep Embedded Clustering (DEC) truly overcomes the fundamental limitations of k‑means clustering, such as handling clusters of arbitrary shapes, varied sizes, and densities. Through analysis, it finds that DEC does not exploit the underlying data distribution and therefore fails to address these limitations. Instead, a non‑deep learning approach that leverages distributional information of clusters can achieve the intended goals of deep clustering.
arXiv:2608. 00935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are widely used for clinical risk prediction using machine learning.
arXiv:2606. 25770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data scarcity is a major bottleneck in medical Multiple Instance Learning (MIL), especially for rare diseases or expensive modalities.
arXiv:2606. 14608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Survival prediction plays a central role for healthcare providers and clinical researchers.
arXiv:2606. 28623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective sub-typing (also known as grouping or clustering) of patients using their electronic health record (EHR) data can greatly inform precision medicine efforts.
arXiv:2507. 12645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing need for accurate and unified analysis of diverse biological signals, such as ECG and EEG, is paramount for comprehensive patient assessment, especially in synchronous monitoring.
The paper introduces a selective inference framework tailored for deep clustering that uses a fixed pretrained encoder to map high‑dimensional data into a latent space before clustering. It addresses the complex selection bias arising from the nonlinear transformation and offers a computationally tractable method to perform valid statistical tests on cluster differences. Experiments on synthetic data show controlled Type I error and higher power compared to conservative baselines, while genomic case studies demonstrate the ability to uncover significant cluster differences while properly accounting for selection bias.
The paper evaluates deep learning models for electrocardiogram‑based emotion recognition, focusing on generalization across datasets rather than dataset‑specific performance. It introduces two open‑source tools—ARRC for standardized benchmarking and ARDT for inter‑dataset training—to merge three public AER datasets (CUADS, ASCERTAIN, DREAMER) into a more variable benchmark. Using these tools, the authors compare three prominent deep learning architectures and two CNN baselines with hyperparameter tuning and 10‑fold cross‑validation, revealing trade‑offs between accuracy and model complexity and providing a reproducible benchmark for future research.
arXiv:2607. 15447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research in clinical machine learning, focusing on outcome predictions in intensive care unit (ICU), has shifted from bespoke supervised models to foundation models, utilising modern representation learning methods.
The paper introduces a deep generative model using conditional variational autoencoders to augment vital sign data from healthy individuals so that it mimics patterns of specific clinical conditions. Trained on a publicly available ICU dataset, the model learns the underlying dynamics of ICU data and reshapes healthy data to align with target clinical labels. A proposed distance metric demonstrates that the generated samples are more aligned with intended clinical labels than baseline methods.