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In healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI) has been changing the way doctors and health experts take care of people. This paper will cover how AI is making major changes in the health care system, especially with nutrition. Various machine…

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Datasets are rarely a realistic approximation of the target population. Say, prevalence is misrepresented, image quality is above clinical standards, etc. This mismatch is known as sampling bias. Sampling biases are a major hindrance for…

The following paper investigates the effectiveness of incorporating human salience into the task of calorie prediction from images of food. We observe a 32.2% relative improvement when incorporating saliency maps on the images of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Katherine R. Dearstyne , Alberto D. Rodriguez

Malnutrition among pregnant women is a major public health challenge in Ethiopia, increasing the risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Traditional statistical approaches often fail to capture the complex and multidimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amsalu Tessema , Tizazu Bayih , Kassahun Azezew , Ayenew Kassie

Sustained high levels of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) can have disastrous long-term health consequences. An essential component of clinical interventions for T2DM is monitoring dietary intake to keep plasma glucose levels within…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-24 Zepeng Huo , Bobak J. Mortazavi , Theodora Chaspari , Nicolaas Deutz , Laura Ruebush , Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

This article uses machine learning (ML) and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques to investigate the relationship between nutritional status and mortality rates associated with Alzheimers disease (AD). The Third National…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ziming Liu , Longjian Liu , Robert E. Heidel , Xiaopeng Zhao

Food consumption and production contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, making them crucial entry points for mitigating climate change and maintaining a liveable planet. Over the past two decades, food policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Micha Kaiser , Paul Lohmann , Peter Ochieng , Billy Shi , Cass R. Sunstein , Lucia A. Reisch

Consumption of diets with low glycemic impact is highly recommended for diabetics and pre-diabetics as it helps maintain their blood glucose levels. However, laboratory analysis of dietary glycemic potency is time-consuming and expensive.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Helena Lee , Palakorn Achananuparp , Yue Liu , Ee-Peng Lim , Lav R. Varshney

Models often need to be constrained to a certain size for them to be considered interpretable. For example, a decision tree of depth 5 is much easier to understand than one of depth 50. Limiting model size, however, often reduces accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Abhishek Ghose , Balaraman Ravindran

The prevalence of dementia has increased over time as global life expectancy improves and populations age. An individual's risk of developing dementia is influenced by various genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors, among others.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-12 Srilekha Mamidala

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become increasingly challenging in today's sedentary society marked by poor eating habits. To address this issue, both national and international organisations have made numerous efforts to promote…

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are vital for supporting clinical decision-making in biomedical informatics. However, their predictive performance can vary across demographic groups, often due to the underrepresentation of historically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ioannis Bilionis , Ricardo C. Berrios , Luis Fernandez-Luque , Carlos Castillo

Rapid increases in food supplies have reduced global hunger, while rising burdens of diet-related disease have made poor diet quality the leading cause of death and disability around the world. Today's "double burden" of undernourishment in…

General Economics · Economics 2023-04-18 William A. Masters , Amelia B. Finaret , Steven A. Block

Liver infection is a common disease, which poses a great threat to human health, but there is still able to identify an optimal technique that can be used on large-level screening. This paper deals with ML algorithms using different data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 P. Deivendran , S. Selvakanmani , S. Jegadeesan , V. Vinoth Kumar

Diabetes is one of the deadliest diseases in the world and affects nearly 10 percent of the global adult population. Fortunately, powerful new technologies allow for a consistent and reliable treatment plan for people with diabetes. One…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-08 Julia Ann Jose , Trae Waggoner , Sudarsan Manikandan

Medication non-adherence is a widespread problem affecting over 50% of people who have chronic illness and need chronic treatment. Non-adherence exacerbates health risks and drives significant increases in treatment costs. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yingqi Gu , Akshay Zalkikar , Lara Kelly , Kieran Daly , Tomas E. Ward

Data quality is a significant issue for any application that requests for analytics to support decision making. It becomes very important when we focus on Internet of Things (IoT) where numerous devices can interact to exchange and process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Anna Karanika , Panagiotis Oikonomou , Kostas Kolomvatsos , Christos Anagnostopoulos

Dysphagia affects 590 million people worldwide and increases risk for malnutrition. Pureed food may reduce choking, however preparation differences impact nutrient density making quality assurance necessary. This paper is the first study to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Kaylen J. Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Audrey G. Chung , Alexander Wong

Unhealthy behaviors, e.g., physical inactivity and unhealthful food choice, are the primary healthcare cost drivers in developed countries. Pervasive computational, sensing, and communication technology provided by smartphones and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Arash Mahyari , Peter Pirolli

The complex nature of lithium-ion battery degradation has led to many machine learning based approaches to health forecasting being proposed in literature. However, machine learning can be computationally intensive. Linear approaches are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Samuel Greenbank , David A. Howey