Stochastic and data-driven predictive modelling of health trajectories

The aim of this axis is to propose original machine and statistical learning methods, including deep learning approaches to account for low-sample-size high-dimension setting. In particular, we consider modeling complex patient care trajectories for prognosis prediction and decision making, as well as, approaches using synthetic patient generation.

We focus on the supervised classification and prediction tasks (from a computer science point of view) and their applications in (i) clinical practice by guiding diagnostics (i.e., the identification of patients with undiagnosed conditions), (ii) prognostics (i.e., the predicting the outcomes of patients having a particular condition), and (iii) in providing insights to biomedicine (e.g., identifying how patient should be treated through features selection).

Keywords: Data-driven medicine, Model-based medicine, Learning health system, Small samples high dimensional data, Electronic Health Records, Machine learning, Bayesian inference

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