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ReviewPatterns (New York, N.Y.)2022

Breaking away from labels: The promise of self-supervised machine learning in intelligent health.

Dimitris Spathis, Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Laia Marques-Fernandez, Cecilia Mascolo

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Review in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Dimitris SpathisDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD Cambridge, UK.
Ignacio Perez-PozueloMRC Epidemiology Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, CB2 0SL Cambridge, UK.
Laia Marques-FernandezAddenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, CB2 0QQ Cambridge, UK.
Cecilia MascoloDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD Cambridge, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medicine is undergoing an unprecedented digital transformation, as massive amounts of health data are being produced, gathered, and curated, ranging from in-hospital (e.g., intensive care unit [ICU]) to person-generated data (wearables). Annotating all these data for training purposes in order to feed to deep learning models for pattern recognition is impractical. Here, we discuss some exciting recent results of self-supervised learning (SSL) applications to high-resolution health signals. These examples leverage unlabeled data to learn meaningful representations that can generalize to situations where the ground truth is inadequate or simply infeasible to collect due to the high burden or associated costs. The most prominent bottleneck of deep learning today is access to labeled, carefully curated datasets, and self-supervision on health signals opens up new possibilities to eliminate data silos through general-purpose models that can transfer to low-resource environments and tasks.

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biomedical informaticshealth signalsmachine learningtransfer learning

Identifiers

PMID35199063
PMCPMC8848012

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