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De Re Updates

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, we propose a lightweight yet powerful dynamic epistemic logic that captures not only the distinction between de dicto and de re knowledge but also the distinction between de dicto and de re updates. The logic is based on the dynamified version of an epistemic language extended with the assignment operator borrowed from dynamic logic, following the work of Wang and Seligman (Proc. AiML 2018). We obtain complete axiomatizations for the counterparts of public announcement logic and event-model-based DEL based on new reduction axioms taking care of the interactions between dynamics and assignments.


CovidCare: Transferring Knowledge from Existing EMR to Emerging Epidemic for Interpretable Prognosis

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Due to the characteristics of COVID-19, the epidemic develops rapidly and overwhelms health service systems worldwide. Many patients suffer from systemic life-threatening problems and need to be carefully monitored in ICUs. Thus the intelligent prognosis is in an urgent need to assist physicians to take an early intervention, prevent the adverse outcome, and optimize the medical resource allocation. However, in the early stage of the epidemic outbreak, the data available for analysis is limited due to the lack of effective diagnostic mechanisms, rarity of the cases, and privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based approach, CovidCare, which leverages the existing electronic medical records to enhance the prognosis for inpatients with emerging infectious diseases. It learns to embed the COVID-19-related medical features based on massive existing EMR data via transfer learning. The transferred parameters are further trained to imitate the teacher model's representation behavior based on knowledge distillation, which embeds the health status more comprehensively in the source dataset. We conduct the length of stay prediction experiments for patients on a real-world COVID-19 dataset. The experiment results indicate that our proposed model consistently outperforms the comparative baseline methods. CovidCare also reveals that, 1) hs-cTnI, hs-CRP and Platelet Counts are the most fatal biomarkers, whose abnormal values usually indicate emergency adverse outcome. 2) Normal values of gamma-GT, AP and eGFR indicate the overall improvement of health. The medical findings extracted by CovidCare are empirically confirmed by human experts and medical literatures.


ConCare: Personalized Clinical Feature Embedding via Capturing the Healthcare Context

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Predicting the patient's clinical outcome from the historical electronic medical records (EMR) is a fundamental research problem in medical informatics. Most deep learning-based solutions for EMR analysis concentrate on learning the clinical visit embedding and exploring the relations between visits. Although those works have shown superior performances in healthcare prediction, they fail to explore the personal characteristics during the clinical visits thoroughly. Moreover, existing works usually assume that the more recent record weights more in the prediction, but this assumption is not suitable for all conditions. In this paper, we propose ConCare to handle the irregular EMR data and extract feature interrelationship to perform individualized healthcare prediction. Our solution can embed the feature sequences separately by modeling the time-aware distribution. ConCare further improves the multi-head self-attention via the cross-head decorrelation, so that the inter-dependencies among dynamic features and static baseline information can be effectively captured to form the personal health context. Experimental results on two real-world EMR datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of ConCare. The medical findings extracted by ConCare are also empirically confirmed by human experts and medical literature.


Analysis Dictionary Learning: An Efficient and Discriminative Solution

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Yang et al. [7] used Fisher widely advocated for image classification problems. To further Information criterion in their class-specific reconstruction errors sharpen their discriminative capabilities, most state-ofthe-art to compose their approach. DL methods have additional constraints included in Besides SDL, Analysis Dictionary Learning (ADL) [8, 9] the learning stages. These various constraints, however, lead has recently been of interest on account of its fast encoding to additional computational complexity. We hence propose an and stability attributes. ADL provides a linear transformation efficient Discriminative Convolutional Analysis Dictionary of a signal to a nearly sparse representation. Inspired by Learning (DCADL) method, as a lower cost Discriminative the SDL methodology in image classification, ADL has also DL framework, to both characterize the image structures and been adapted to the supervised learning problems by promoting refine the interclass structure representations. The proposed discriminative sparse representations [10, 11]. In [10], DCADL jointly learns a convolutional analysis dictionary and Guo et al. incorporated both a topological structure and a representation a universal classifier, while greatly reducing the time complexity similarity constraint to encourage a suitable classselective in both training and testing phases, and achieving a representation for a 1-Nearest Neighbor classifier.