Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning

In medical diagnosis a doctor aims to explain a patient’s symptoms by determining the diseases causing them, while existing diagnostic algorithms are purely associative. Here, the authors reformulate diagnosis as a counterfactual inference task and derive new counterfactual diagnostic algorithms.

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Autores principales: Jonathan G. Richens, Ciarán M. Lee, Saurabh Johri
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:354f6c4524cb465f9ff459a9e2354e2a2021-12-02T18:50:57ZImproving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning10.1038/s41467-020-17419-72041-1723https://doaj.org/article/354f6c4524cb465f9ff459a9e2354e2a2020-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17419-7https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723In medical diagnosis a doctor aims to explain a patient’s symptoms by determining the diseases causing them, while existing diagnostic algorithms are purely associative. Here, the authors reformulate diagnosis as a counterfactual inference task and derive new counterfactual diagnostic algorithms.Jonathan G. RichensCiarán M. LeeSaurabh JohriNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
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Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning
description In medical diagnosis a doctor aims to explain a patient’s symptoms by determining the diseases causing them, while existing diagnostic algorithms are purely associative. Here, the authors reformulate diagnosis as a counterfactual inference task and derive new counterfactual diagnostic algorithms.
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title Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning
title_short Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning
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title_full_unstemmed Improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis with causal machine learning
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