NIH to Inject Health Bolus of Data to Sustain the Future for Medical Discoveries
Thomas M. Johnson and Grace C.Y. Peng
Computational modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) are integrating into medicine and biomedical research at a dizzying pace. Practitioners are utilizing AI in all aspects of healthcare, from the staging of lung cancer nodules on MRI images to workflow management in hospitals…
When Personalization Harms: Reconsidering the Use of Group Attributes in Prediction
Suriyakumar V, Ghassemi M, Ustun B. When personalization harms performance: reconsidering the use of group attributes in prediction. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2013: in press.
Machine learning models are often personalized with categorical attributes that are protected, sensitive, self-reported, or costly to acquire. In this work, we show models that are personalized with group attributes can reduce performance at a group level…
Cross-Team Collaboration and Diversity in the Bridge2AI Project
Huimin Xu, Chitrank Gupta, Zhandos Sembay, Swathi Thaker, Pamela Payne-Foster, Jake Chen, and Ying Ding. 2023. Cross-Team Collaboration and Diversity in the Bridge2AI Project. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 790–794.
The Bridge2AI project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, involves researchers from different disciplines and backgrounds to develop well-curated AI health data and tools…
Enhancing Fairness in Disease Prediction by Optimizing Multiple Domain Adversarial Networks
Bin Li, Xinghua Shi, Hongchang Gao, Xiaoqian Jiang, Kai Zhang, Arif O Harmanci, Bradley Malin
Predictive models in biomedicine need to ensure equitable and reliable outcomes for the populations they are applied to. Unfortunately, biases in medical predictions can lead to unfair treatment and widening disparities…
Human-Centered Design to Address Biases in Artificial Intelligence
You Chen, Ellen Wright Clayton, Laurie Lovett Novak, Shilo Anders, and Bradley Malin
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to help health organizations deliver equitable care to their patients and optimize administrative processes. However, the complex life cycle of AI can be biased in ways that exacerbate health disparities and inequities…
Tsung-Ting Kuo, Anh Pham, Maxim E Edelson, Jihoon Kim, Jason Chan, Yash Gupta, Lucila Ohno-Machado, The R2D2 Consortium
We aimed to develop a distributed, immutable, and highly available cross-cloud blockchain system to facilitate federated data analysis activities among multiple institutions.
Tsung-Ting Kuo, Anh Pham
We aim at addressing the site availability issue on a hierarchical network by designing an immutable/transparent/source-verifiable quorum mechanism.
Evaluation of software impact designed for biomedical research: Are we measuring what’s meaningful?
Awan Afiaz, Andrey A. Ivanov, John Chamberlin, David Hanauer, Candace L. Savonen, Mary J. Goldman,Martin Morgan, Michael Reich, Alexander Getka, Aaron Holmes, Sarthak Pati, Dan Knight, Paul C. Boutros, Spyridon Bakas, J. Gregory Caporaso, Guilherme Del Fiol, Harry Hochheiser, Brian Haas, Patrick D. Schloss, James A. Eddy, Jake Albrecht, Andrey Fedorov, Levi Waldron, Ava M. Hoffman, Richard L. Bradshaw, Jeffrey T. Leek, and Carrie Wright
Software is vital for the advancement of biology and medicine. Through analysis of usage and impact metrics of software, developers can help determine user and community engagement. These metrics can be used to justify additional funding, encourage additional use, and identify unanticipated use cases…
Correlations Between Anxiety and/or Depression Diagnoses and Dysphagia Severity
Can Doruk, Valentina Mocchetti, Hal Rives, Paul Christos, Anaïs Rameau
An increased prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders in patients with dysphagia has been noted previously, but whether dysphagia severity may be exacerbated by anxiety and depression has never been studied before…
James A. Curtis, Valentina Mocchetti, Anaïs Rameau
Female Surgical Ergonomics in Otolaryngology: A National Survey Study
Elliot Morse, Katherine Tai, Lexa Harpel, Hayley Born, Priya Krishna, Anaïs Rameau
Ergonomics, the study of the interaction between a worker and their job environment, is receiving increased attention in the field of surgery. The occupational need for prolonged standing, prolonged holding of ergonomically suboptimal postures, use of varied equipment…
Concurrent Validity of a Low-Cost Manometer for Objective Assessments of Respiratory Muscle Strength
James A. Curtis, Valentina Mocchetti, Anaïs Rameau
This study examined the agreement in maximal expiratory (MEP) and inspiratory (MIP) pressure readings between two digital manometers: (1) the MicroRPM – the gold-standard manometer for respiratory muscle strength testing; and (2) the LDM – a low-cost, commercially available, alternative manometer…
Gavin Victora, Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Vardit Ravitsky
Cohen’s (Citation2023) mapping exercise of possible bioethical issues emerging from the use of ChatGPT in medicine provides an informative, useful, and thought-provoking trigger for discussions of AI ethics in health…
A deep learning pipeline for automated classification of vocal fold polyps in flexible laryngoscopy
Peter Yao, Dan Witte, Alexander German, Preethi Periyakoil , Yeo Eun Kim, Hortense Gimonet, Lucian Sulica, Hayley Born, Olivier Elemento, Josue Barnes, Anaïs Rameau
Purpose: To develop and validate a deep learning model for distinguishing healthy vocal folds (HVF) and vocal fold polyps (VFP) on laryngoscopy videos, while demonstrating the ability of a previously developed informative frame classifier in facilitating deep learning development.
Keith A. Chadwick, David Liao, Isaac L. Alter, Rachel Coleman, Katerina Andreadis, Rebecca Riekki, Jack Waldman, Hal Rives, Mary Pitti, Anaïs Rameau
There is currently no research reporting solely on outcomes of voice and communication modification training (VCMT) in individuals who identify as non-binary and genderqueer (NBGQ) in the English literature…
Cough Sounds in Screening and Diagnostics: A Scoping Review
Siddhi Hegde, Shreya Sreeram, Isaac L Alter, Chaya Shor, Tulio A Valdez, Kara D Meister, Anaïs Rameau
The aim of the study was to examine applications of cough sounds towards screening tools and diagnostics in the biomedical and engineering literature, with particular focus on disease types, acoustic data collection protocols, data processing and analytics, accuracy, and limitations…
Artificial Intelligence Governance and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Obinna I Nwosu, Matthew G Crowson, Anaïs Rameau
This rapid communication highlights components of artificial intelligence governance in healthcare and suggests adopting key governance approaches in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery…
Virtual Reality for Pain Management During High-Resolution Manometry: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Ilan Palte, Sarah Stewart, Hal Rives, James A Curtis, Necati Enver, Andrew Tritter, Katerina Andreadis, Valentina Mocchetti, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, Amir Soumekh, Rasa Zarnegar, Philip Katz, Anaïs Rameau
High-resolution esophageal manometry (HRM) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of esophageal motility disorders. HRM is typically performed in the office with local anesthesia only, and many patients find it unpleasant and painful…
Julianna C Kostas, Andrew S Lee, Amit Arunkumar, Catherine Han, Mark Lee, Alexander N Goel, James Alrassi, Tyler Crosby, Christine M Clark, Milan Amin, Sara Abu-Ghanem, Diana Kirke, Anaïs Rameau
Simulation may be a valuable tool in training laryngology office procedures on unsedated patients. However, no studies have examined whether existing awake procedure simulators improve trainee performance in laryngology…
Concurrent Validity of the IOPI and Tongueometer Orofacial Strength Measurement Devices
James A Curtis, Valentina Mocchetti, Anaïs Rameau
This study examined the concurrent validity of two orofacial strength manometers: (1) the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) – the current, gold standard orofacial manometer; and (2) the Tongueometer – a newly-available, lower cost, orofacial manometer…
Female Surgical Ergonomics in Otolaryngology: A Qualitative Study
Elliot Morse, Lexa Harpel, Hayley Born, Anaïs Rameau
In the past several decades, surgical ergonomics has received increased attention, in part due to high rates of musculoskeletal injuries reported by many surgeons. Surgery is a historically male-dominated field, and the operating room environment and instrumentation have been designed to accommodate the average male surgeon…
ADGR: Admixture-Informed Differential Gene Regulation
In-Hee Lee and Sek Won Kong
The regulatory elements in proximal and distal regions of genes are involved in the regulation of gene expression. Risk alleles in intronic and intergenic regions may alter gene expression by modifying the binding affinity and stability of diverse DNA-binding proteins implicated in gene expression regulation…
Daniel M. Low, Vishwanatha Rao, Gregory Randolph, Phillip C. Song, Satrajit S. Ghosh
Detecting voice disorders from voice recordings could allow for frequent, remote, and low-cost screening before costly clinical visits and a more invasive laryngoscopy examination. Our goals were to detect unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) from voice recordings…
Erta Beqiri, Neeraj Badjatia, Ari Ercole, Brandon Foreman, Peter Hu, Xiao Hu, Kerri LaRovere, Geert Meyfroidt, Dick Moberg, Chiara Robba, Eric S Rosenthal, Peter Smielewski, Mark S Wainwright, Soojin Park; Curing Coma Campaign and its Contributing Members
The implementation of multimodality monitoring in the clinical management of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) results in physiological measurements that can be collected in a continuous and regular fashion or even at waveform resolution…
Rianne G.F. Dolmans, Brian V. Nahed, Faith C. Robertson, Wilco C. Peul, Eric S. Rosenthal, and Marike L.D. Broekman
Analgo-sedation plays an important role during intensive care management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, however, limited evidence is available to guide practice. We sought to quantify practice-pattern variation in neurotrauma sedation management…
Benjamin Shickel, Brandon Silva, Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, Yuanfang Ren, Kia Khezeli, Ziyuan Guan, Patrick J. Tighe, Azra Bihorac, and Parisa Rashidi
Transformer model architectures have revolutionized the natural language processing (NLP) domain and continue to produce state-of-the-art results in text-based applications. Prior to the emergence of transformers, traditional NLP models such as recurrent and convolutional neural networks…
Oliver J. Monfredi, Christopher C. Moore, Brynne A. Sullivan, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Karen D. Fairchild, Tyler J. Loftus, Azra Bihorac, Katherine N. Krahn, Artur Dubrawski, Douglas E. Lake, J. Randall Moorman, and Gilles Clermon
The idea that we can detect subacute potentially catastrophic illness earlier by using statistical models trained on clinical data is now well-established. We review evidence that supports the role of continuous cardiorespiratory monitoring in these predictive analytics monitoring tools
Anna Heinke, Haochen Zhang, Daniel Deussen, Carlo Miguel B Galang, Alexandra Warter, Fritz Gerald Paguiligan Kalaw, Dirk-Uwe G Bartsch, Lingyun Cheng, Cheolhong An, Truong Nguyen, William R Freeman
We hypothesize that OCTA-visualized vascular morphology may be a predictor of CNV status in AMD. We thus evaluated the use of AI to predict different stages of AMD disease based on OCTA en-face 2D projections scans…
Yue Wu, Catherine Egan, Abraham Olvera-Barrios, Lea Scheppke, Tunde Peto, Peter Charbel Issa, Tjebo F C Heeren, Irene Leung, Anand E Rajesh, Adnan Tufail, Cecilia S Lee, Emily Y Chew, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y Lee
Deep learning (DL) models have achieved state-of-the-art medical diagnosis classification accuracy. Current models are limited by discrete diagnosis labels, but could yield more information with diagnosis in a continuous scale…
Trends and practices following the 2016 hydroxychloroquine screening guidelines
Fritz Gerald P. Kalaw, Justin Arnett, Sally L. Baxter, Evan Walker, Brian Pedersen & Shyamanga Borooah
This study aimed to understand the profile of hydroxychloroquine-treated patients, referral patterns, and dosing and to assess the adherence of eye care providers to the latest 2016 screening guidelines provided by the American Academy of Ophthalmology…
Anand E. Rajesh, Oliver Q. Davidson, Cecilia S. Lee, & Aaron Y. Lee
Current guidelines recommend that individuals with diabetes receive yearly eye exams for detection of referable diabetic retinopathy (DR), one of the leading causes of new-onset blindness. For addressing the immense screening burden, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms…
Microperimetry Findings in Pentosan Polysulfate Maculopathy
Jesse Most, Fritz Gerald P Kalaw, Evan Walker, Juan D Arias, Jason Charng, Sally L Baxter, Eric Nudleman, Henry Ferreyra, William R Freeman, Fred K Chen, Shyamanga Borooah
Pentosan polysulfate maculopathy is a toxic maculopathy associated with the use of pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS). With few alternative treatments for interstitial cystitis (IC), early detection and monitoring for maculopathy during treatment…
Evaluating Access to Laser Eye Surgery by Driving Times Using Medicare Data and Geographical Mapping
Jamie Shaffer, Anand Rajesh, Michael W Stewart, Aaron Y Lee, Darby D Miller, Cecilia S Lee, Courtney E Francis
Recently, several states have granted optometrists privileges to perform select laser procedures (laser peripheral iridotomy, selective laser trabeculoplasty, and YAG laser capsulotomy) with the aim of increasing access…
Anand E Rajesh, Abraham Olvera-Barrios, Alasdair N. Warwick, Yue Wu, Kelsey V. Stuart, Mahantesh Biradar, Chuin Ying Ung, Anthony P. Khawaja, Robert Luben, Paul J. Foster, Cecilia S. Lee, Adnan Tufail, Aaron Y. Lee, Catherine Egan, EPIC Norfolk, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium
Few metrics exist to describe phenotypic diversity within ophthalmic imaging datasets, with researchers often using ethnicity as an inappropriate marker for biological variability…
Anand E Rajesh, Oliver Davidson, Megan Lacy, Arthika Chandramohan, Aaron Y Lee, Cecilia S Lee, Kristina Tarczy-Hornoch; IRIS® Registry Analytic Center Consortium
Strabismus, misalignment of the eyes, is a commonly diagnosed disorder in children, with approximately 2% to 3% of children aged < 6 years diagnosed in the United States. If untreated, strabismus can lead to impaired depth perception or amblyopia…
Diabetic Retinopathy and Dementia Association, Beyond Diabetes Severity
Cecilia S Lee, Chloe Krakauer, Yu-Ru Su, Rod L Walker, Marian Blazes, Susan M McCurry, James D Bowen, Wayne C McCormick Aaron Y Lee, Edward J Boyko, Ann M O’Hare, Eric B Larson, Paul K Crane
Purpose: To investigate whether associations between diabetic retinopathy (DR) and dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain significant after controlling for several measures of diabetes severity…
Yue Wu, Abraham Olvera-Barrios, Ryan Yanagihara, Timothy-Paul H Kung, Randy Lu, Irene Leung, Amit V Mishra, Hanan Nussinovitch, Gabriela Grimaldi, Marian Blazes, Cecilia S Lee, Catherine Egan, Adnan Tufail, Aaron Y Lee
Purpose: To create an unsupervised cross-domain segmentation algorithm for segmenting intraretinal fluid and retinal layers on normal and pathologic macular OCT images from different manufacturers…
Evaluation of large language models for discovery of gene set function
Mengzhou Hu, Sahar Alkhairy, Ingoo Lee, Rudolf T. Pillich, Robin Bachelder, Trey Ideker,1 and Dexter Pratt
Gene set analysis is a mainstay of functional genomics, but it relies on manually curated databases of gene functions that are incomplete and unaware of biological context. Here we evaluate the ability of OpenAI’s GPT-4, a Large Language Model (LLM)…
Julien Brisson, Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Vardit Ravitsky
A multi-scale map of protein assemblies in the DNA damage response
Anton Kratz, Minkyu Kim, Marcus R. Kelly, Fan Zheng, Christopher A. Koczor, Jianfeng Li, Keiichiro Ono, Yue Qin, Christopher Churas, Jing Chen, Rudolf T. Pillich, Jisoo Park, Maya Modak, Rachel Collier, Kate Licon, Dexter Pratt, Robert W. Sobol, Nevan J. Krogan, Trey Ideker
The DNA damage response (DDR) ensures error-free DNA replication and transcription and is disrupted in numerous diseases. An ongoing challenge is to determine the proteins orchestrating DDR and their organization into complexes…
Kyle Ford, Brenton P. Munson, Samson H. Fong, Rebecca Panwala, Wai Keung Chu, Joseph Rainaldi, Nongluk Plongthongkum, Vinayagam Arunachalam, Jarek Kostrowicki, Dario Meluzzi, Jason F. Kreisberg, Kristen Jensen-Pergakes, Todd VanArsdale, Thomas Paul, Pablo Tamayo, Kun Zhang, Jadwiga Bienkowska, Prashant Mali, and Trey Ideker
Cell-cycle control is accomplished by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), motivating extensive research into CDK targeting small-molecule drugs as cancer therapeutics. Here we use combinatorial CRISPR/Cas9 perturbations…
RNA editing: Expanding the potential of RNA therapeutics
Brian J. Booth, Sami Nourreddine, Dhruva Katrekar, Yiannis Savva, Debojit Bose, Thomas J. Long, David J. Huss, and Prashant Mali
RNA therapeutics have had a tremendous impact on medicine, recently exemplified by the rapid development and deployment of mRNA vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, RNA-targeting drugs have been developed for diseases…