Global Interpretation for Patient Similarity Learning

Mengdi Huai, Chenglin Miao, Jinduo Liu, Di Wang, Jingyuan Chou, Aidong Zhang

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Abstract

As an important family of learning problems in healthcare domain, patient similarity learning has received much attention in recent years. Patient similarity learning aims to measure the similarity between a pair of patients according to their historical clinical information, which helps to improve the clinical predictions of the patient of interest. Although patient similarity learning has achieved tremendous success in many real-world applications, the lack of transparency behind the behavior of the learned patient similarity model impedes users from trusting the predicted results, which hampers its further applications in the real world. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we investigate how to enable interpretation in patient similarity learning and propose a global interpretation method for patient similarity learning. Based on the proposed global interpretation method, we can identify a minimal sufficient subset of data features that are sufficient in themselves to justify the global predictions made by the well-trained patient similarity model. The identified minimal sufficient feature subset can help us to better understand the overall behaviors of the learned model across different subpopulations of patients. We also conduct experiments on real-world datasets to evaluate the performance of the proposed global interpretation method.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages589-594
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781728162157
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 16 2020
Externally publishedYes

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