medicine – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Statistical Validity, Clusters

By Andrew Fairless on January 29, 2025October 19, 2024

https://www.fharrell.com/post/cluster The Burden of Demonstrating Statistical Validity of ClustersFrank HarrellOctober 6, 2024 “Most medical applications of statistical clustering techniques fail to address the most basic questions…”

What I Read: data, distributions

By Andrew Fairless on May 17, 2022April 25, 2022

https://www.argmin.net/2022/03/31/external-evaluations/ There’s more to data than distributions.Deb RajiMar 31, 2022 “…they also comment on changes to the interactions doctors had with the model and how that modified outcomes, as wellContinue readingWhat I Read: data, distributions

What I Read: Multi-task Prediction of Organ Dysfunction

By Andrew Fairless on August 25, 2021August 17, 2021

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/multi-task-prediction-of-organ.html Multi-task Prediction of Organ Dysfunction in ICUsThursday, July 22, 2021 “Applying machine learning (ML) to electronic health records (EHRs) has shown promise in predicting clinical outcomes. However, many ofContinue readingWhat I Read: Multi-task Prediction of Organ Dysfunction

What I Read: AI, Colon Cancer

By Andrew Fairless on May 14, 2021April 17, 2021

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-help-wipe-out-colon-cancer/ Sara HarrisonBusiness04.12.2021 07:00 AMThis AI Could Help Wipe Out Colon CancerMedtronic’s GI Genius, recently cleared by the FDA, will help doctors identify precancerous polyps. “…the Food and Drug AdministrationContinue readingWhat I Read: AI, Colon Cancer

What I Read: Decentralized AI For Healthcare

By Andrew Fairless on May 7, 2021April 17, 2021

https://thegradient.pub/decentralized-ai-for-healthcare/ Decentralized AI For Healthcareby Zehra HayirciApril 8 2021 8:52 PM “Federated Learning… is the latest distributed learning framework that proposes training on locally stored data with local computational powerContinue readingWhat I Read: Decentralized AI For Healthcare

What I Watch: The medical test paradox, Can redesigning Bayes rule help?

By Andrew Fairless on February 28, 2021February 27, 2021

https://youtu.be/lG4VkPoG3ko The medical test paradox: Can redesigning Bayes rule help?Dec 22, 20203Blue1Brown “In short, an accurate test is not necessarily a predictive test… of all of the places for mathContinue readingWhat I Watch: The medical test paradox, Can redesigning Bayes rule help?

What I Read: Dismal Spring Awaits Unless We Slow Covid-19

By Andrew Fairless on February 27, 2021February 23, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/opinion/covid-19-precautions.html A Dismal Spring Awaits Unless We Slow the Spread of Covid-19How soon life returns to normal depends on what we do now.By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Rick Bright and CélineContinue readingWhat I Read: Dismal Spring Awaits Unless We Slow Covid-19

What I Read: What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?

By Andrew Fairless on February 21, 2021January 25, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/magazine/covid-aftereffects.html FeatureWhat If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?Some patients could be living with the aftereffects for years to come. Recent research into another persistent, mysterious disease might help usContinue readingWhat I Read: What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?

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