Beyond Random Missingness: Clinically Rethinking for Healthcare Time Series Imputation
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| author | Qian, Linglong Yang, Yiyuan Du, Wenjie Wang, Jun Dobsoni, Richard Ibrahim, Zina |
| author_facet | Qian, Linglong Yang, Yiyuan Du, Wenjie Wang, Jun Dobsoni, Richard Ibrahim, Zina |
| contents | This study investigates the impact of masking strategies on time series imputation models in healthcare settings. While current approaches predominantly rely on random masking for model evaluation, this practice fails to capture the structured nature of missing patterns in clinical data. Using the PhysioNet Challenge 2012 dataset, we analyse how different masking implementations affect both imputation accuracy and downstream clinical predictions across eleven imputation methods. Our results demonstrate that masking choices significantly influence model performance, while recurrent architectures show more consistent performance across strategies. Analysis of downstream mortality prediction reveals that imputation accuracy doesn't necessarily translate to optimal clinical prediction capabilities. Our findings emphasise the need for clinically-informed masking strategies that better reflect real-world missing patterns in healthcare data, suggesting current evaluation frameworks may need reconsideration for reliable clinical deployment. |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond Random Missingness: Clinically Rethinking for Healthcare Time Series Imputation Qian, Linglong Yang, Yiyuan Du, Wenjie Wang, Jun Dobsoni, Richard Ibrahim, Zina Machine Learning This study investigates the impact of masking strategies on time series imputation models in healthcare settings. While current approaches predominantly rely on random masking for model evaluation, this practice fails to capture the structured nature of missing patterns in clinical data. Using the PhysioNet Challenge 2012 dataset, we analyse how different masking implementations affect both imputation accuracy and downstream clinical predictions across eleven imputation methods. Our results demonstrate that masking choices significantly influence model performance, while recurrent architectures show more consistent performance across strategies. Analysis of downstream mortality prediction reveals that imputation accuracy doesn't necessarily translate to optimal clinical prediction capabilities. Our findings emphasise the need for clinically-informed masking strategies that better reflect real-world missing patterns in healthcare data, suggesting current evaluation frameworks may need reconsideration for reliable clinical deployment. |
| title | Beyond Random Missingness: Clinically Rethinking for Healthcare Time Series Imputation |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17508 |