A survey on causal inference

L Yao, Z Chu, S Li, Y Li, J Gao, A Zhang - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Causal inference is a critical research topic across many domains, such as statistics,
computer science, education, public policy, and economics, for decades. Nowadays …

From real‐world patient data to individualized treatment effects using machine learning: current and future methods to address underlying challenges

I Bica, AM Alaa, C Lambert… - Clinical Pharmacology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical decision making needs to be supported by evidence that treatments are beneficial to
individual patients. Although randomized control trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for …

Time series deconfounder: Estimating treatment effects over time in the presence of hidden confounders

I Bica, A Alaa… - … conference on machine …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
The estimation of treatment effects is a pervasive problem in medicine. Existing methods for
estimating treatment effects from longitudinal observational data assume that there are no …

Deep proxy causal learning and its application to confounded bandit policy evaluation

L Xu, H Kanagawa, A Gretton - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Proxy causal learning (PCL) is a method for estimating the causal effect of treatments on
outcomes in the presence of unobserved confounding, using proxies (structured side …

Reconsidering generative objectives for counterfactual reasoning

D Lu, C Tao, J Chen, F Li, F Guo… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
There has been recent interest in exploring generative goals for counterfactual reasoning,
such as individualized treatment effect (ITE) estimation. However, existing solutions often fail …

[HTML][HTML] Deep representation learning for individualized treatment effect estimation using electronic health records

P Chen, W Dong, X Lu, U Kaymak, K He… - Journal of biomedical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Utilizing clinical observational data to estimate individualized treatment effects (ITE) is a
challenging task, as confounding inevitably exists in clinical data. Most of the existing …

Treatment effect prediction with adversarial deep learning using electronic health records

J Chu, W Dong, J Wang, K He, Z Huang - BMC Medical Informatics and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Treatment effect prediction (TEP) plays an important role in disease
management by ensuring that the expected clinical outcomes are obtained after performing …

[HTML][HTML] StudyU: a platform for designing and conducting innovative digital N-of-1 trials

S Konigorski, S Wernicke, T Slosarek… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
N-of-1 trials are the gold standard study design to evaluate individual treatment effects and
derive personalized treatment strategies. Digital tools have the potential to initiate a new era …

Deep causal learning for robotic intelligence

Y Li - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This invited Review discusses causal learning in the context of robotic intelligence. The
Review introduces the psychological findings on causal learning in human cognition, as well …

Automated interpretable discovery of heterogeneous treatment effectiveness: A COVID-19 case study

BJ Lengerich, ME Nunnally… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Testing multiple treatments for heterogeneous (varying) effectiveness with respect to many
underlying risk factors requires many pairwise tests; we would like to instead automatically …