Adaptive Recruitment Resource Allocation to Improve Cohort Representativeness in Participatory Biomedical Datasets

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Main Authors: Borza, Victor, Estornell, Andrew, Clayton, Ellen Wright, Ho, Chien-Ju, Rothman, Russell, Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy, Malin, Bradley
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Published: 2024
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author Borza, Victor
Estornell, Andrew
Clayton, Ellen Wright
Ho, Chien-Ju
Rothman, Russell
Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy
Malin, Bradley
author_facet Borza, Victor
Estornell, Andrew
Clayton, Ellen Wright
Ho, Chien-Ju
Rothman, Russell
Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy
Malin, Bradley
contents Large participatory biomedical studies, studies that recruit individuals to join a dataset, are gaining popularity and investment, especially for analysis by modern AI methods. Because they purposively recruit participants, these studies are uniquely able to address a lack of historical representation, an issue that has affected many biomedical datasets. In this work, we define representativeness as the similarity to a target population distribution of a set of attributes and our goal is to mirror the U.S. population across distributions of age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Many participatory studies recruit at several institutions, so we introduce a computational approach to adaptively allocate recruitment resources among sites to improve representativeness. In simulated recruitment of 10,000-participant cohorts from medical centers in the STAR Clinical Research Network, we show that our approach yields a more representative cohort than existing baselines. Thus, we highlight the value of computational modeling in guiding recruitment efforts.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Recruitment Resource Allocation to Improve Cohort Representativeness in Participatory Biomedical Datasets
Borza, Victor
Estornell, Andrew
Clayton, Ellen Wright
Ho, Chien-Ju
Rothman, Russell
Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy
Malin, Bradley
Machine Learning
Computers and Society
Large participatory biomedical studies, studies that recruit individuals to join a dataset, are gaining popularity and investment, especially for analysis by modern AI methods. Because they purposively recruit participants, these studies are uniquely able to address a lack of historical representation, an issue that has affected many biomedical datasets. In this work, we define representativeness as the similarity to a target population distribution of a set of attributes and our goal is to mirror the U.S. population across distributions of age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Many participatory studies recruit at several institutions, so we introduce a computational approach to adaptively allocate recruitment resources among sites to improve representativeness. In simulated recruitment of 10,000-participant cohorts from medical centers in the STAR Clinical Research Network, we show that our approach yields a more representative cohort than existing baselines. Thus, we highlight the value of computational modeling in guiding recruitment efforts.
title Adaptive Recruitment Resource Allocation to Improve Cohort Representativeness in Participatory Biomedical Datasets
topic Machine Learning
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01375