arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

HealthMamba: An Uncertainty-aware Spatiotemporal Graph State Space Model for Effective and Reliable Healthcare Facility Visit Prediction

HealthMamba is an uncertainty‑aware spatiotemporal graph state space model designed to predict healthcare facility visits more accurately and reliably. It integrates a Unified Spatiotemporal Context Encoder, a novel GraphMamba module for hierarchical modeling, and a comprehensive uncertainty quantification component. Evaluated on large‑scale datasets from California, New York, Texas, and Florida, it improves prediction accuracy by about 6.0% and uncertainty quantification by 3.5% over state‑of‑the‑art baselines.

By Dahai Yu, Lin Jiang, Rongchao Xu, Guang Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Quantifying the Impact of Ambulance Ramping: A Multi-Year Analysis of Victorian Emergency Medical Services Cases

This study analyzes 2,850,575 ambulance attendances in Victoria, Australia, to quantify ambulance ramping—the delay between hospital arrival and patient handover—across 59 hospitals and 79 local government areas from January 2020 to March 2024. It finds that cumulative ambulance hours lost (AHL) totalled 1,491,127 hours, with ten hospitals accounting for 57.8 % of lost hours. Ramping duration increases with the number of ambulances arriving at the same hospital in the preceding hour and shows a moderate correlation with hourly demand two to four hours later.

By Ayesha Tanveer, Khandakar Ahmed, Assefa Teshome, Oyetunde Gbadeyan, Ziad Nehme
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Explainable Uncertainty Estimation for Reliable Medical AI

The paper introduces egRUE, an explainable uncertainty estimation method that merges uncertainty quantification with feature‑level explanations for medical AI predictions. egRUE incorporates prediction explanations into its uncertainty calculation and decomposes uncertainty into contributions from individual features. Experiments and a user study with medical experts show that egRUE improves reliability, interpretability, and calibrated trust compared to existing methods.

By Li Rong Wang, Jamie Duell, Xinran Xu, Thomas C. Henderson, Yu Yue Hew, Pik Wan Erica Chiang, Xiao Wei Alstar Ang, Bingwen Eugene Fan, Xiuyi Fan