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We developed a system for predicting the prognosis for more than 2000 COVID-19 patients hospitalised at ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, one of the hospitals with more COVID-19 patients in Italy. Our system is based on lab tests and X-Ray data and focuses on death risk at different times during the hospitalisation using randomized ensemble of decision trees.

ECAI 2020

Prognosis Prediction in Covid-19 Patients from Lab Tests and X-ray Data through Randomized Decision Trees

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**The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS)**

**The Frontiers in AI track sessions**

**The Lab To Market event**

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technical paper

The use of artificial pancreas systems is becoming increasingly popular amongst patients with type 1 diabetes due to its effective ability to allow the patient better control of patient's own blood glucose levels compared to other more standard treatments. But what if the glucose monitor stops transmitting for an unpredictable period of time while the pump is still working? How should the pump react to guarantee the safety of the patients? In this presentation, we will discuss some potential failure mode strategies that we have explored and their corresponding results.

In Silico Comparison of Continuous Glucose Monitor Failure Mode Strategies for an Artificial Pancreas

Individuals with Type I diabetes (T1D) must frequently monitor their blood glucose (BG) and deliver insulin to regulate it. New devices like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and insulin pumps  have  helped  reduce  this  burden  by  facilitating  closed-loop technologies like the artificial pancreas (AP) for delivering insulin automatically. As more people use AP systems, which rely on a CGM and insulin pump, there has been a dramatic increase in the availability of large scale patient-generated health data (PGHD) in T1D. This data can potentially be used to train robust, generalizable models for accurate BG forecasting which can then be used to make forecasts for smaller datasets like OhioT1DM in real-time. In this work, we investigate the potential and pitfalls of using knowledge distillation to transfer knowledge from a model learned from one dataset to another and compare it with the baseline case of using either dataset alone. We  show  that  using  a  pre-trained  model  to  do  BG  forecasting  for OhioT1DM from CGM data only (univariate setting) has comparable performance to training on OhioT1DM itself. Using a single-step, univariate  recurrent  neural  network  (RNN)  trained  on  OhioT1DM data alone, we achieve an overall RMSE of 19.21 and 31.77 mg/dl for a prediction horizon (PH) of 30 and 60 minutes respectively

Investigating potentials and pitfalls of knowledge distillation across datasets for blood glucose forecasting

In this position paper, we highlight that being able to analyse the cause-effect relationships for determining the causal status among a set of events is an essential requirement in many contexts and argue that cannot be overlooked when building systems targeting real-world use cases. This is especially true for medical contexts where the understanding of the cause(s) of a symptom, or observation, is of vital importance. However, most approaches purely based on Machine Learning (ML) do not explicitly represent and reason with causal relations, and may therefore mistake correlation for causation. In the paper, we therefore argue for an approach to extract causal relations from text, and represent them in the form of Knowledge Graphs (KG), to empower downstream ML applications, or AI systems in general, with the ability to distinguish correlation from causation and reason with causality in an explicit manner. So far, the bottlenecks in KG creation have been scalability and accuracy of automated methods, hence, we argue that two novel features are required from methods for addressing these challenges, i.e. (i) the use of Knowledge Patterns to guide the KG generation process towards a certain resulting knowledge structure, and (ii) the use of a semantic referee to automatically curate the extracted knowledge. We claim that this will be an important step forward for supporting interpretable AI systems, and integrating ML and knowledge representation approaches, such as KGs, which should also generalise well to other types of relations, apart from causality.

Towards Causal Knowledge Graphs - Position Paper

In this presentation, we quantify the uncertainty of deep neural networks (DNNs) for the task of Chest X-Ray (CXR) image classification. We investigate uncertainties of several commonly used DNN architectures including ResNet, ResNeXt, DenseNet and SENet. We propose an uncertainty based strategy and analyze the impact of this strategy on the classifier performance. Results show that utilizing uncertainty information may improve DNN performance for some metrics and observations.

Uncertainty Quantification in Chest X-Ray Image Classification using Bayesian Deep Neural Networks

In Silico Comparison of Continuous Glucose Monitor Failure Mode Strategies for and Artificial Pancreas

"Knowledge Discovery, Processing and Representation. Since in our modern society the healthcare system plays an important role and has a major impact in our daily lives, it lies at hand to apply the aforementioned methods in order to discover relevant patterns in healthcare databases and then to represent them in a way
which supports reasoning, decision making, and communication. We approach this task by using two complementary directions, which are then interlinked. On the one hand we make use of the graphical representation capabilities of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and its powerful algorithms for conceptual knowledge discovery and
processing. On the other, we use graph databases as a complementary visualization method of the extracted knowledge patterns. We exemplify this approach on a particular medical dataset, highlighting a 3D representation of conceptual hierarchies by using virtual reality (VR)."

Knowledge Discovery and Visualization in Healthcare Datasets using Formal Concept Analysis and Graph Databases

"Most advanced machine learning techniques, such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), are black boxes and therefore not interpretable for humans. 
A way of explaining an ANN is visualizing the internal feature representations of its hidden layers (neural embeddings). However, interpreting these visualizations is still difficult. 
We therefore present InterVENE: an approach that visualizes neural embeddings and interactively explains this visualization, aiming for knowledge extraction and network interpretation. We project neural embeddings in a 2-dimensional scatter plot, where users can interactively select two subsets of data instances in this visualization. Subsequently, a personalized decision tree is trained to distinguish these two sets, thus explaining the difference between the two sets.
We apply InterVENE to a medical case study where interpretability of decision support is critical: outcome prediction of comatose patients. Our experiments confirm that InterVENE can successfully extract knowledge from an ANN, and give both domain experts and machine learning experts insight into the behaviour of an ANN. Furthermore, InterVENE's explanations about outcome prediction of comatose patients seem plausible when compared to existing neurological domain knowledge."

Interactive Explanations of Internal Representations of Neural Network Layers: An Exploratory Study on Outcome Prediction of Comatose Patients

Fracture detection has been a long-standing paradigm on the medical imaging community. Many algorithms and systems have been presented to accurately detect and classify images in terms of the presence and absence of fractures in different parts of the body. While these solutions are capable of obtaining results which even surpass human scores, few efforts have been dedicated to evaluate how these systems can be embedded in the clinicians and radiologists working pipeline. Moreover, the reports that are included with the radiography could also provide key information regarding the nature and the severity of the fracture. In this paper, we present our first findings towards assessing how computer vision, natural language processing and other systems could be correctly embedded in the clinicians' pathway to better aid on the fracture detection task. We present some initial experimental results using publicly available fracture datasets along with a handful of data provided by the National Healthcare System from the United Kingdom in a research initiative call. Results show that there is a high likelihood of applying transfer learning from different existing and pre-trained models to the new records provided in the challenge, and that there are various ways in which these techniques can be embedded along the clinicians' pathway.

Assessing the clinicians' pathway to embed artificial intelligence for assisted diagnostics of fracture detection

"The management of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a burdensome life-long task. In fact, T1DM individuals are request to perform every day tens of actions to adapt the insulin therapy, aimed at maintaining the blood glucose (BG) concentration as much as possible into a safe range coping with the day-to-day variability of their life style. The recent availability of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices and other low-cost wearable sensors to track important vital and activity signals, is stimulating the development of decision support systems to lower this burden. Modern deep learning models, trained using rich amount of information, are a suitable and effective instrument for such purpose, especially if used to predict future BG values. However, the high accuracy of deep learning approaches is often obtained at the expense of less interpretability.

To surpass this limit, in this work we propose a new deep learning method for BG prediction based on a personalized bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) equipped with a tool that enables its interpretability. The OhioT1DM Dataset was used to develop a model targeting future BG at 30 and 60 minute prediction horizons (PH). The accuracy of model predictions was evaluated in terms of root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and the time gained (TG) to anticipate the actual glucose concentration.

The obtained results show fairly good prediction accuracy (for PH = 30/60 min): RMSE = 20.20/34.19 mg/dl, MAE = 14.74/25.98 mg/dl, and TG = 9.17/18.33 min.
Moreover, we showed, in a representative case, that our algorithm is able to preserve the physiological meaning of the considered inputs. 

In conclusion, we built a model able to provide reliable glucose performance ensuring the interpretability of its output. Future work will assess model performance against other competitive strategies. "

A Personalized and Interpretable Deep Learning Based Approach to Predict Blood Glucose Concentration inType 1 Diabetes

A machine learning-based method for blood glucose level prediction thirty and sixty minutes in advance based on highly multiclass classification (as opposed to the more traditional regres- sion approach) is proposed. An advantage of this approach is the possibility of modelling and visualising the uncertainty of a predic- tion across the entire range of blood glucose levels without paramet- ric assumptions such as normality. To demonstrate the approach, a long-short term memory-based neural network classifier is used in conjunction with a blood glucose-specific data preprocessing tech- nique (risk domain transform) to train a set of models and generate predictions for the 2018 and 2020 Blood Glucose Level Prediction Competition datasets. Numeric accuracy results are reported along with examples of the uncertainty visualisation possible using this technique.

Prognosis Prediction in Covid-19 Patients from Lab Tests and X-ray Data through Randomized Decision Trees

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