What I Read: Multi-task Prediction of Organ Dysfunction

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/multi-task-prediction-of-organ.html

Multi-task Prediction of Organ Dysfunction in ICUs
Thursday, July 22, 2021


“Applying machine learning (ML) to electronic health records (EHRs) has shown promise in predicting clinical outcomes. However, many of these ML models are based on single-task learning (ST), where the models are trained only to predict a specific adverse event… Of greater benefit would be to train multi-task models, which take into account a variety of competing risks…”