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ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2021

Analyzing Patient Trajectories With Artificial Intelligence.

Ahmed Allam, Stefan Feuerriegel, Michael Rebhan, Michael Krauthammer

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Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Ahmed AllamDepartment of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0871-1977
Stefan FeuerriegelDepartment of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7856-8729
Michael RebhanDepartment of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0890-9492
Michael KrauthammerDepartment of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4808-1845

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In digital medicine, patient data typically record health events over time (eg, through electronic health records, wearables, or other sensing technologies) and thus form unique patient trajectories. Patient trajectories are highly predictive of the future course of diseases and therefore facilitate effective care. However, digital medicine often uses only limited patient data, consisting of health events from only a single or small number of time points while ignoring additional information encoded in patient trajectories. To analyze such rich longitudinal data, new artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are needed. In this paper, we provide an overview of the recent efforts to develop trajectory-aware AI solutions and provide suggestions for future directions. Specifically, we examine the implications for developing disease models from patient trajectories along the typical workflow in AI: problem definition, data processing, modeling, evaluation, and interpretation. We conclude with a discussion of how such AI solutions will allow the field to build robust models for personalized risk scoring, subtyping, and disease pathway discovery.

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Artificial IntelligenceHumansartificial intelligencedigital medicinelongitudinal datamachine learningpatient trajectories

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PMID34870606
PMCPMC8686456

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