The Shaky Foundations of Clinical Foundation Models: A Survey of Large Language Models and Foundation Models for EMRs

1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2023 • Michael Wornow, Yizhe Xu, Rahul Thapa, Birju Patel, Ethan Steinberg, Scott Fleming, Michael A. Pfeffer, Jason Fries, Nigam H. Shah

The successes of foundation models such as ChatGPT and AlphaFold have spurred significant interest in building similar models for electronic medical records (EMRs) to improve patient care and hospital operations.

Reinforcement Learning with State Observation Costs in Action-Contingent Noiselessly Observable Markov Decision Processes

1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • HyunJi Nam, Scott Fleming, Emma Brunskill

Many real-world problems that require making optimal sequences of decisions under uncertainty involve costs when the agent wishes to obtain information about its environment.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Evaluating Treatment Prioritization Rules via Rank-Weighted Average Treatment Effects

1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2021 • Steve Yadlowsky, Scott Fleming, Nigam Shah, Emma Brunskill, Stefan Wager

We propose rank-weighted average treatment effect (RATE) metrics as a simple and general family of metrics for comparing and testing the quality of treatment prioritization rules.

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