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| author | Li, Siqi Li, Xin Yu, Kunyu Miao, Di Zhu, Mingcheng Yan, Mengying Ke, Yuhe D'Agostino, Danny Ning, Yilin Wu, Qiming Wang, Ziwen Shang, Yuqing Liu, Molei Hong, Chuan Liu, Nan |
| author_facet | Li, Siqi Li, Xin Yu, Kunyu Miao, Di Zhu, Mingcheng Yan, Mengying Ke, Yuhe D'Agostino, Danny Ning, Yilin Wu, Qiming Wang, Ziwen Shang, Yuqing Liu, Molei Hong, Chuan Liu, Nan |
| contents | Clinical and biomedical research in low-resource settings often faces significant challenges due to the need for high-quality data with sufficient sample sizes to construct effective models. These constraints hinder robust model training and prompt researchers to seek methods for leveraging existing knowledge from related studies to support new research efforts. Transfer learning (TL), a machine learning technique, emerges as a powerful solution by utilizing knowledge from pre-trained models to enhance the performance of new models, offering promise across various healthcare domains. Despite its conceptual origins in the 1990s, the application of TL in medical research has remained limited, especially beyond image analysis. In our review of TL applications in structured clinical and biomedical data, we screened 3,515 papers, with 55 meeting the inclusion criteria. Among these, only 2% (one out of 55) utilized external studies, and 7% (four out of 55) addressed scenarios involving multi-site collaborations with privacy constraints. To achieve actionable TL with structured medical data while addressing regional disparities, inequality, and privacy constraints in healthcare research, we advocate for the careful identification of appropriate source data and models, the selection of suitable TL frameworks, and the validation of TL models with proper baselines. |
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| spellingShingle | Bridging Data Gaps in Healthcare: A Scoping Review of Transfer Learning in Biomedical Data Analysis Li, Siqi Li, Xin Yu, Kunyu Miao, Di Zhu, Mingcheng Yan, Mengying Ke, Yuhe D'Agostino, Danny Ning, Yilin Wu, Qiming Wang, Ziwen Shang, Yuqing Liu, Molei Hong, Chuan Liu, Nan Machine Learning Clinical and biomedical research in low-resource settings often faces significant challenges due to the need for high-quality data with sufficient sample sizes to construct effective models. These constraints hinder robust model training and prompt researchers to seek methods for leveraging existing knowledge from related studies to support new research efforts. Transfer learning (TL), a machine learning technique, emerges as a powerful solution by utilizing knowledge from pre-trained models to enhance the performance of new models, offering promise across various healthcare domains. Despite its conceptual origins in the 1990s, the application of TL in medical research has remained limited, especially beyond image analysis. In our review of TL applications in structured clinical and biomedical data, we screened 3,515 papers, with 55 meeting the inclusion criteria. Among these, only 2% (one out of 55) utilized external studies, and 7% (four out of 55) addressed scenarios involving multi-site collaborations with privacy constraints. To achieve actionable TL with structured medical data while addressing regional disparities, inequality, and privacy constraints in healthcare research, we advocate for the careful identification of appropriate source data and models, the selection of suitable TL frameworks, and the validation of TL models with proper baselines. |
| title | Bridging Data Gaps in Healthcare: A Scoping Review of Transfer Learning in Biomedical Data Analysis |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11034 |