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Auteurs principaux: Ruhe, David, Cinà, Giovanni, Tonutti, Michele, de Bruin, Daan, Elbers, Paul
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Publié: 2019
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08619
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author Ruhe, David
Cinà, Giovanni
Tonutti, Michele
de Bruin, Daan
Elbers, Paul
author_facet Ruhe, David
Cinà, Giovanni
Tonutti, Michele
de Bruin, Daan
Elbers, Paul
contents The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a hospital department where machine learning has the potential to provide valuable assistance in clinical decision making. Classical machine learning models usually only provide point-estimates and no uncertainty of predictions. In practice, uncertain predictions should be presented to doctors with extra care in order to prevent potentially catastrophic treatment decisions. In this work we show how Bayesian modelling and the predictive uncertainty that it provides can be used to mitigate risk of misguided prediction and to detect out-of-domain examples in a medical setting. We derive analytically a bound on the prediction loss with respect to predictive uncertainty. The bound shows that uncertainty can mitigate loss. Furthermore, we apply a Bayesian Neural Network to the MIMIC-III dataset, predicting risk of mortality of ICU patients. Our empirical results show that uncertainty can indeed prevent potential errors and reliably identifies out-of-domain patients. These results suggest that Bayesian predictive uncertainty can greatly improve trustworthiness of machine learning models in high-risk settings such as the ICU.
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spellingShingle Bayesian Modelling in Practice: Using Uncertainty to Improve Trustworthiness in Medical Applications
Ruhe, David
Cinà, Giovanni
Tonutti, Michele
de Bruin, Daan
Elbers, Paul
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a hospital department where machine learning has the potential to provide valuable assistance in clinical decision making. Classical machine learning models usually only provide point-estimates and no uncertainty of predictions. In practice, uncertain predictions should be presented to doctors with extra care in order to prevent potentially catastrophic treatment decisions. In this work we show how Bayesian modelling and the predictive uncertainty that it provides can be used to mitigate risk of misguided prediction and to detect out-of-domain examples in a medical setting. We derive analytically a bound on the prediction loss with respect to predictive uncertainty. The bound shows that uncertainty can mitigate loss. Furthermore, we apply a Bayesian Neural Network to the MIMIC-III dataset, predicting risk of mortality of ICU patients. Our empirical results show that uncertainty can indeed prevent potential errors and reliably identifies out-of-domain patients. These results suggest that Bayesian predictive uncertainty can greatly improve trustworthiness of machine learning models in high-risk settings such as the ICU.
title Bayesian Modelling in Practice: Using Uncertainty to Improve Trustworthiness in Medical Applications
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08619