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Record W2802935654 · doi:10.5206/uwomj.v86i2.2060

Machine learning in medicine

2017· article· en· W2802935654 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Chloe Gui, Victoria Chan

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Western Ontario Medical Journal · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceHealth careProcess (computing)Machine learningQuality (philosophy)Limited resourcesArtificial intelligenceRisk analysis (engineering)Medicine

Abstract

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Machine learning (ML) is a powerful and flexible tool that can be used to analyze and predict outcomes from biological and clinical data. ML models have the potential to improve healthcare efficiency in a number of ways. Algorithms that predict prognosis empower healthcare officials to allocate resources optimally and physicians to select better treatment options for patients. Diagnostic models can be used in screening, in risk stratification, and to recommend appropriate testing and treatment. This would decrease the burden on physicians, increase and expedite patient access to care, save resources, and reduce costs. However, despite the research advances of ML in medicine, its role in the clinic is currently limited. Model building and validation may require large amounts of high-quality data that can be difficult and expensive to obtain, and diagnostic models must be individually built for each disease, a lengthy process. The psychological aspect of trusting black box algorithms may also be challenging to accept. Continued ML research, however, may enable the use of smaller datasets and the development of more transparent models. Careful trials in the clinic will need to be conducted before the more impactful uses of ML, such as diagnosis, can be implemented.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.190
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.136
GPT teacher head0.381
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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