Using machine learning to individualize treatment effect estimation: Challenges and opportunities

A Curth, RW Peck, E McKinney… - Clinical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The use of data from randomized clinical trials to justify treatment decisions for real‐world
patients is the current state of the art. It relies on the assumption that average treatment …

Accounting for informative sampling when learning to forecast treatment outcomes over time

T Vanderschueren, A Curth… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Machine learning (ML) holds great potential for accurately forecasting treatment
outcomes over time, which could ultimately enable the adoption of more individualized …

Benchmarking observational studies with experimental data under right-censoring

I Demirel, E De Brouwer, ZM Hussain… - International …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Drawing causal inferences from observational studies (OS) requires unverifiable validity
assumptions; however, one can falsify those assumptions by benchmarking the OS with …

Reliable off-policy learning for dosage combinations

J Schweisthal, D Frauen… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Decision-making in personalized medicine such as cancer therapy or critical care must often
make choices for dosage combinations, ie, multiple continuous treatments. Existing work for …

Reasoning and causal inference regarding surgical options for patients with low‐grade gliomas using machine learning: A SEER‐based study

E Zhu, W Shi, Z Chen, J Wang, P Ai, X Wang… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Due to the heterogeneity of low‐grade gliomas (LGGs), the lack of randomized
control trials, and strong clinical evidence, the effect of the extent of resection (EOR) is …

Counterfactual phenotyping with censored time-to-events

C Nagpal, M Goswami, K Dufendach… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Estimation of treatment efficacy of real-world clinical interventions involves working with
continuous time-to-event outcomes such as time-to-death, re-hospitalization, or a composite …

To impute or not to impute? missing data in treatment effect estimation

J Berrevoets, F Imrie, T Kyono… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Missing data is a systemic problem in practical scenarios that causes noise and bias when
estimating treatment effects. This makes treatment effect estimation from data with …

BITES: balanced individual treatment effect for survival data

S Schrod, A Schäfer, S Solbrig, R Lohmayer… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Estimating the effects of interventions on patient outcome is one of the key
aspects of personalized medicine. Their inference is often challenged by the fact that the …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing adjuvant treatment options for patients with glioblastoma

E Zhu, J Wang, W Shi, Q Jing, P Ai, D Shan… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background This study focused on minimizing the costs and toxic effects associated with
unnecessary chemotherapy. We sought to optimize the adjuvant therapy strategy, choosing …

Understanding the impact of competing events on heterogeneous treatment effect estimation from time-to-event data

A Curth, M van der Schaar - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the problem of inferring heterogeneous treatment effects (HTEs) from time-to-event
data in the presence of competing events. Albeit its great practical relevance, this problem …