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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2023

Multi-Task Learning for Post-transplant Cause of Death Analysis: A Case Study on Liver Transplant.

Sirui Ding, Qiaoyu Tan, Chia-Yuan Chang, Na Zou, Kai Zhang, Nathan R Hoot, Xiaoqian Jiang, Xia Hu

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Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. FERI: A Multitask-based Fairness Achieving Algorithm with Applications to Fair Organ Transplantation.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sirui DingTexas A&M University, College station, TX, USA.
Qiaoyu TanTexas A&M University, College station, TX, USA.
Chia-Yuan ChangTexas A&M University, College station, TX, USA.
Na ZouTexas A&M University, College station, TX, USA.
Kai ZhangUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Nathan R HootMcGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Xiaoqian JiangUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Xia HuRice University, Houston, TX, USA.
Texas A&M University · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · USRice University · US

Funding

RADx-Rad Discoveries & Data: Consortium Coordination Center Program OrganizationU24LM013755 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ARONOFF-SPENCER, ELIAH S, OHNO-MACHADO, LUCILA · 2021 to 2023
$23.3M
Open Health Natural Language Processing CollaboratoryU01TR002062 · NCATS · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI JIANG, XIAOQIAN, LIU, HONGFANG · 2017 to 2021
$7.6M
Finding Combinatorial Drug Repositioning Therapy For Alzheimer'S Disease And Related DementiasR01AG066749 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI JIANG, XIAOQIAN, ZHENG, WENJIN JIM · 2020 to 2024
$4.4M
Decentralized differentially-private methods for dynamic data release and analysisR01LM013712 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI JIANG, XIAOQIAN, OHNO-MACHADO, LUCILA · 2022 to 2025
$2.5M
NCATS NIH HHS U01 TR002062NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066749NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013712NLM NIH HHS U24 LM013755
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organ transplant is the essential treatment method for some end-stage diseases, such as liver failure. Analyzing the post-transplant cause of death (CoD) after organ transplant provides a powerful tool for clinical decision making, including personalized treatment and organ allocation. However, traditional methods like Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score and conventional machine learning (ML) methods are limited in CoD analysis due to two major data and model-related challenges. To address this, we propose a novel framework called CoD-MTL leveraging multi-task learning to model the semantic relationships between various CoD prediction tasks jointly. Specifically, we develop a novel tree distillation strategy for multi-task learning, which combines the strength of both the tree model and multi-task learning. Experimental results are presented to show the precise and reliable CoD predictions of our framework. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the clinical importance of our method in the liver transplant.

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End Stage Liver DiseaseLiver TransplantationTissue and Organ ProcurementCause of DeathHumansSeverity of Illness Index

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PMID38222347
PMCPMC10785876
OpenAlexW4362597835

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