FAMEWS: a Fairness Auditing tool for Medical Early-Warning Systems
Marine Hoche,
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Olga Mineeva,
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M. Burger
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et al.
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 8, 2024
Abstract
Machine
learning
applications
hold
promise
to
aid
clinicians
in
a
wide
range
of
clinical
tasks,
from
diagnosis
prognosis,
treatment,
and
patient
monitoring.
These
potential
are
accompanied
by
surge
ethical
concerns
surrounding
the
use
Learning
(ML)
models
healthcare,
especially
regarding
fairness
non-discrimination.
While
there
is
an
increasing
number
regulatory
policies
ensure
safe
integration
such
systems,
translation
practices
remains
open
challenge.
Algorithmic
frameworks,
aiming
bridge
this
gap,
should
be
tailored
application
enable
fundamental
human-right
principles
into
accurate
statistical
analysis,
capturing
inherent
complexity
risks
associated
with
system.
In
work,
we
propose
set
impartial
checks
adapted
ML
early-warning
systems
medical
context,
comprising
on
top
standard
metrics,
analysis
outcomes,
screening
sources
bias
pipeline.
Our
further
fortified
inclusion
event-based
prevalence-corrected
as
well
tests
measure
biases.
Additionally,
emphasize
importance
considering
subgroups
beyond
conventional
demographic
attributes.
Finally,
facilitate
operationalization,
present
open-source
tool
FAMEWS
generate
comprehensive
reports.
reports
address
diverse
needs
interests
stakeholders
involved
integrating
practice.
The
has
reveal
critical
insights
that
might
otherwise
remain
obscured.
This
can
lead
improved
model
design,
which
turn
may
translate
enhanced
health
outcomes.
Language: Английский
An Empirical Study on KDIGO-Defined Acute Kidney Injury Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 3, 2024
Motivation
Acute
kidney
injury
(AKI)
is
a
syndrome
that
affects
large
fraction
of
all
critically
ill
patients,
and
early
diagnosis
to
receive
adequate
treatment
as
imperative
it
challenging
make
early.
Consequently,
machine
learning
approaches
have
been
developed
predict
AKI
ahead
time.
However,
the
prevalence
often
underestimated
in
state-of-the-art
approaches,
they
rely
on
an
event
annotation
solely
based
creatinine,
ignoring
urine
output.
Methods
We
construct
evaluate
warning
systems
for
multi-disciplinary
ICU
setting,
using
complete
KDIGO
definition
AKI.
propose
several
variants
gradient-boosted
decision
trees
(GBDT)-based
models,
including
novel
time-stacking
approach.
A
LSTM-based
model
previously
proposed
prediction
used
comparison,
which
was
not
specifically
evaluated
settings
yet.
Results
find
optimal
performance
achieved
by
GBDT
with
time-based
stacking
technique
(AUPRC=65.7%,
compared
model’s
AUPRC=62.6%),
motivated
high
relevance
time
since
admission
this
task.
Both
models
show
mildly
reduced
limited
training
data
perform
fairly
across
different
subco-horts,
exhibit
no
issues
gender
transfer.
Conclusion
Following
official
substantially
increases
number
annotated
events.
In
our
study
GBDTs
outperform
LSTM
prediction.
Generally,
we
both
types
are
robust
variety
arising
data.
Language: Английский