AI ethics on Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Real-world studies have become increasingly important in providing evidence of treatment effectiveness in clinical practice. While randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are the "gold standard" for evaluating the safety and efficacy of new therapeutic agents, necessarily strict inclusion and exclusion criteria mean that trial populations are often not representative of the patient populations encountered in clinical practice. Real-world studies may use information from electronic health and claims da

The importance of incorporating Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods in clinical informatics research has been increasingly recognized over the past years, and has led to transformative advances. Typically, clinical NLP systems are developed and evaluated on word, sentence, or document level annotations that model specific attributes and features, such as document content (e.g., patient status, or report type), document section types (e.g., current medications, past medical history, or disc

Automated worker action recognition helps to understand the state of workers’ actions, enabling effective management of work performance in terms of productivity, safety, and health issues. A wristband equipped with an accelerometer (e.g., activity tracker) allows to collect the data related to workers’ hand activities without interfering with their ongoing work. Considering that many construction activities involve unique hand movements, the use of acceleration data from a wristband has great p