Publications

Evaluating the Fairness of Deep Learning Uncertainty Estimates in Medical Image Analysis
Raghav Mehta
Changjian Shui
Intent-aware Multi-source Contrastive Alignment for Tag-enhanced Recommendation
Haolun Wu
Yingxue Zhang
Chen Ma
Wei Guo
Ruiming Tang
To offer accurate and diverse recommendation services, recent methods use auxiliary information to foster the learning process of user and i… (see more)tem representations. Many state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods fuse different sources of information (user, item, knowledge graph, tags, etc.) into a graph and use Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to introduce the auxiliary information through the message passing paradigm. In this work, we seek an alternative framework that is light and effective through self-supervised learning across different sources of information, particularly for the commonly accessible item tag information. We use a self-supervision signal to pair users with the auxiliary information (tags) associated with the items they have interacted with before. To achieve the pairing, we create a proxy training task. For a given item, the model predicts which is the correct pairing between the representations obtained from the users that have interacted with this item and the tags assigned to it. This design provides an efficient solution, using the auxiliary information directly to enhance the quality of user and item embeddings. User behavior in recommendation systems is driven by the complex interactions of many factors behind the users’ decision-making processes. To make the pairing process more fine-grained and avoid embedding collapse, we propose a user intent-aware self-supervised pairing process where we split the user embeddings into multiple sub-embedding vectors. Each sub-embedding vector captures a specific user intent via self-supervised alignment with a particular cluster of tags. We integrate our designed framework with various recommendation models, demonstrating its flexibility and compatibility. Through comparison with numerous SOTA methods on seven real-world datasets, we show that our method can achieve better performance while requiring less training time. This indicates the potential of applying our approach on web-scale datasets.
Assessing the inclusion of children’s surgical care in National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans: a policy content analysis
Sabrina Wimmer
Paul Truche
Elena Guadagno
Emmanuel Ameh
Lubna Samad
Emmanuel Mwenda Malabo Makasa
Sarah Greenberg
John G Meara
Tonnis H van Dijk
Objective While National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) have emerged as a strategy to strengthen and scale up surgical h… (see more)ealthcare systems in low/middle-income countries (LMICs), the degree to which children’s surgery is addressed is not well-known. This study aims to assess the inclusion of children’s surgical care among existing NSOAPs, identify practice examples and provide recommendations to guide inclusion of children’s surgical care in future policies. Design We performed two qualitative content analyses to assess the inclusion of children’s surgical care among NSOAPs. We applied a conventional (inductive) content analysis approach to identify themes and patterns, and developed a framework based on the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery’s Optimal Resources for Children’s Surgery document. We then used this framework to conduct a directed (deductive) content analysis of the NSOAPs of Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia. Results Our framework for the inclusion of children’s surgical care in NSOAPs included seven domains. We evaluated six NSOAPs with all addressing at least two of the domains. All six NSOAPs addressed ‘human resources and training’ and ‘infrastructure’, four addressed ‘service delivery’, three addressed ‘governance and financing’, two included ‘research, evaluation and quality improvement’, and one NSOAP addressed ‘equipment and supplies’ and ‘advocacy and awareness’. Conclusions Additional focus must be placed on the development of surgical healthcare systems for children in LMICs. This requires a focus on children’s surgical care separate from adult surgical care in the scaling up of surgical healthcare systems, including children-focused needs assessments and the inclusion of children’s surgery providers in the process. This study proposes a framework for evaluating NSOAPs, highlights practice examples and suggests recommendations for the development of future policies.
Biomedical discovery through the integrative biomedical knowledge hub (iBKH).
Chang Su
Yu Hou
Manqi Zhou
Suraj Rajendran
Jacqueline R.M. A. Maasch
Zehra Abedi
Haotan Zhang
Zilong Bai
Anthony Cuturrufo
Winston Guo
Fayzan F. Chaudhry
Gregory Ghahramani
Feixiong Cheng
Rui Zhang
Steven T. DeKosky
Jiang Bian
Fei Wang
Can Ensembling Preprocessing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?
Khaled Badran
Pierre-Olivier Côté
Amanda Kolopanis
Rached Bouchoucha
Antonio Collante
Diego Elias Costa
Emad Shihab
In this work, we evaluate three popular fairness preprocessing algorithms and investigate the potential for combining all algorithms into a … (see more)more robust preprocessing ensemble. We report on lessons learned that can help practitioners better select fairness algorithms for their models.
Deep learning-enabled anomaly detection for IoT systems
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Adel Abusitta
Glaucio H.S. Carvalho
Omar Abdel Wahab
Talal Halabi
Saja Al-Mamoori
Facing AI extinction
Genesis, modelling and methodological remedies to autism heterogeneity
Juliette Rabot
Eya‐mist Rødgaard
Ridha Joober
Boris C Bernhardt
Sébastien Jacquemont
Laurent Mottron
Home alone: A population neuroscience investigation of brain morphology substrates
M. Noonan
Chris Zajner
Investigating the neural correlates of affective mentalizing and their association with general intelligence in patients with schizophrenia
Wladimir Tantchik
M. J. Green
Yann Quidé
Susanne Erk
Sebastian Mohnke
Carolin Wackerhagen
Nina Romanczuk-seiferth
Heike Tost
Kristina Schwarz
Carolin Moessnang
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Heinz
Henrik Walter
Machine-learning-based arc selection for constrained shortest path problems in column generation
Mouad Morabit
Guy Desaulniers
Column generation is an iterative method used to solve a variety of optimization problems. It decomposes the problem into two parts: a maste… (see more)r problem and one or more pricing problems (PP). The total computing time taken by the method is divided between these two parts. In routing or scheduling applications, the problems are mostly defined on a network, and the PP is usually an NP-hard shortest path problem with resource constraints. In this work, we propose a new heuristic pricing algorithm based on machine learning. By taking advantage of the data collected during previous executions, the objective is to reduce the size of the network and accelerate the PP, keeping only the arcs that have a high chance to be part of the linear relaxation solution. The method has been applied to two specific problems: the vehicle and crew scheduling problem in public transit and the vehicle routing problem with time windows. Reductions in computational time of up to 40% can be obtained.
Picture Cards Versus Physical Examination: A Proof-of-Concept Study to Improve the SOSAS Survey Tool.
Adesoji Ademuyiwa
Benedict C. Nwomeh
Justina O. Seyi-Olajide
Iyabo Y. Ademuyiwa
Tinuola O. Odugbemi
Ogechi Abazie
Oluwaseun A. Ladipo-Ajayi
Olufemi Bankole
Olumide A. Elebute
Babasola Okusanya
Felix M. Alakaloko
Eyitayo O. Alabi
Ayomide Makanjuola
Shailvi Gupta
Tu Tran
Amanda Onwuka A
Emily R. Smith
Riinu Pius
Ewen Harrison … (see 1 more)
Christopher O. Bode