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Research Scientist, Apple. Working in the intersection of ML & health. He/him.
Aug 24, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
Excited to share our viewpoint, “The myth of generalizability in clinical research & ML in health care”, now out in @LancetDigitalH w/ Morgan Simons, @basslinetherapy @FinaleDoshi & Leo Celi sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/x Perhaps a hot take, but we argue that an overemphasis on broad notions of generalizability overlook situations where ML can actually offer clinical utility 2/x
Aug 10, 2019 29 tweets 15 min read
Mihaela van der Schaar kicking off day 2 of #MLHC2019 with work on learning individualized risk predictions in cancer Shots fired...Mihaela claims most current disease trajectory models are overly simplistic and not useful, due to the Markov assumption #MLHC2019