John V. Guttag

Transferring Knowledge from Text to Predict Disease Onset

2016 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In many domains such as medicine, training data is in short supply. In such cases, external knowledge is often helpful in building predictive models. We propose a novel method to incorporate publicly available domain expertise …

Learning Tasks for Multitask Learning: Heterogenous Patient Populations in the ICU

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Machine learning approaches have been effective in predicting adverse outcomes in different clinical settings. These models are often developed and evaluated on datasets with heterogeneous patient populations. However, good predictive performance on the aggregate population …