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We analyze the problem of comparing unitary transformations. The task is to decide, with minimal resources and maximal reliability, whether two given unitary transformations are identical or different. It is possible to make such…

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Current radiation therapy treatment planning is limited by suboptimal plan quality, inefficiency, and high costs. This perspective paper explores the complexity of treatment planning and introduces Human-Centric Intelligent Treatment…

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Multi-instance multi-label (MIML) learning is a challenging problem in many aspects. Such learning approaches might be useful for many medical diagnosis applications including breast cancer detection and classification. In this study subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Baris Gecer , Ozge Yalcinkaya , Onur Tasar , Selim Aksoy

A treatment regime is a deterministic function that dictates personalized treatment based on patients' individual prognostic information. There is a fast-growing interest in finding optimal treatment regimes to maximize expected long-term…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Runchao Jiang , Wenbin Lu , Rui Song , Marie Davidian

CT image-guided thermal ablation is widely used for lung cancer treatment; however, follow-up data indicate that physicians' subjective assessments of intraoperative images often overestimate the ablation effect, potentially leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Wan Li , Wei Li , Moheng Rong , Yutao Rao , Hui Tang , Yudong Zhang , Feng Wang

Network meta-analysis is a powerful tool to synthesize evidence from independent studies and compare multiple treatments simultaneously. A critical task of performing a network meta-analysis is to offer ranks of all available treatment…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-15 Andrés F. Barrientos , Garritt L. Page , Lifeng Lin

Decision-making across various fields, such as medicine, heavily relies on conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). Practitioners commonly make decisions by checking whether the estimated CATE is positive, even though the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Dennis Frauen , Valentyn Melnychuk , Jonas Schweisthal , Mihaela van der Schaar , Stefan Feuerriegel

The analysis of metrological agents for the estimation of the quality of telecommunication path treatments is carried out. Analysis of subjective and objective estimation methods is presented. The justification for choosing an objective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Nameer Hashim Qasim , Volodymyr Pyliavskyi , Valentina Solodka

Oversubscribed treatments are often allocated using randomized waiting lists. Applicants are ranked randomly, and treatment offers are made following that ranking until all seats are filled. To estimate causal effects, researchers often…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-24 Clement de Chaisemartin , Luc Behaghel

This paper describes a generalizable model evaluation method that can be adapted to evaluate AI/ML models across multiple criteria including core scientific principles and more practical outcomes. Emerging from prediction competitions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jason L. Harman , Jaelle Scheuerman

Seed implant brachytherapy (SIBT) is an effective cancer treatment modality; however, clinical planning often relies on manual adjustment of objective function weights, leading to inefficiencies and suboptimal results. This study proposes…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Zhuo Xiao , Qinglong Yao , Jingjing Wang , Fugen Zhou , Bo Liu , Haitao Sun , Zhe Ji , Yuliang Jiang , Junjie Wang , Qiuwen Wu

Multistate process data are common in studies of chronic diseases such as cancer. These data are ideal for precision medicine purposes as they can be leveraged to improve more refined health outcomes, compared to standard survival outcomes,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-28 Giorgos Bakoyannis

With the advancement of high-throughput biotechnologies, we increasingly accumulate biomedical data about diseases, especially cancer. There is a need for computational models and methods to sift through, integrate, and extract new…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-03 Thomas Gaudelet , Noel Malod-Dognin , Natasa Przulj

In this paper, we propose a framework that incorporates experts diagnostics and insights into the analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) using multi-modal learning. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, we create a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Y. Logan , K. Kokilepersaud , G. Kwon , G. AlRegib , C. Wykoff , H. Yu

CIMTx provides efficient and unified functions to implement modern methods for causal inferences with multiple treatments using observational data with a focus on binary outcomes. The methods include regression adjustment, inverse…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-15 Liangyuan Hu , Jiayi Ji

Many major works in social science employ matching to make causal conclusions, but different matches on the same data may produce different treatment effect estimates, even when they achieve similar balance or minimize the same loss…

Applications · Statistics 2023-03-23 Marco Morucci , Cynthia Rudin

Automatic radiology report generation can alleviate the workload for physicians and minimize regional disparities in medical resources, therefore becoming an important topic in the medical image analysis field. It is a challenging task, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xinyi Wang , Grazziela Figueredo , Ruizhe Li , Wei Emma Zhang , Weitong Chen , Xin Chen

Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

I examine the problem of treatment choice when a planner observes (i) covariates that describe each member of a population of interest and (ii) the outcomes of an experiment in which subjects randomly drawn from this population are randomly…

Applications · Statistics 2013-02-01 Charles F. Manski

The purpose of this study is to examine in a clinical setting a novel formulation of objective functions for intensity-modulated radiotherapy treatment plan multicriteria optimization (MCO) that we suggested in a recent study. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Lovisa Engberg , Kjell Eriksson , Anders Forsgren