Graph Machine Learning in Healthcare

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Informatics and Big Data".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3488

Special Issue Editor

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

With this Special Issue, we aim to create a collection of articles that will explore the application of different measures, methods and models of machine learning and network analytics (together named graph machine learning) to the healthcare decision-making process.

The principal goal of a well-structured healthcare system is to provide the best possible care to its consumers. Various healthcare stakeholders, including general practitioners, specialists, hospitals, radiology and image providers, pathology service providers, pharmacies, aged care facilities, and funders, work together to keep the whole healthcare system running smoothly. These healthcare entities generate a large amount of data, becoming valuable resources that help us to make evidence-based decisions and understand how the entire system is performing. Since these entities and the data they generate are inherently connected, graph machine learning has significant potential to offer insights into the hidden relationships across these data elements, which can eventually facilitate the process of the healthcare decision-making procedure. 

Graph machine learning has emerged from using hand-crafted feature engineering (e.g., network centrality, centralisation, and density) to random-walk approaches (e.g., Node2Vec and Graph convolutional networks) and then graph neural networks. Due to its strong potential to reveal hidden insights of any network, various measures, methods and models of graph machine learning have gained wide-ranging acceptability and application in healthcare research in recent years. 

In this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of methodological, empirical and review papers that use methods, measures and models of data analytics and have a clear implication for healthcare decision making. The submitted papers can be based on primary (e.g., based on study design) and/or secondary research data (e.g., administrative claim data and electronic medical records). Papers of a high academic standard addressing any healthcare decision-making issue using graph machine learning are invited for submission to this Special Issue.

Dr. Shahadat Uddin
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • machine learning
  • network analytics
  • healthcare
  • health informatics
  • administrative claim data

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Adverse Effects of COVID-19 Vaccination: Machine Learning and Statistical Approach to Identify and Classify Incidences of Morbidity and Postvaccination Reactogenicity
by Md. Martuza Ahamad, Sakifa Aktar, Md. Jamal Uddin, Md. Rashed-Al-Mahfuz, A. K. M. Azad, Shahadat Uddin, Salem A. Alyami, Iqbal H. Sarker, Asaduzzaman Khan, Pietro Liò, Julian M. W. Quinn and Mohammad Ali Moni
Healthcare 2023, 11(1), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11010031 - 22 Dec 2022
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Good vaccine safety and reliability are essential for successfully countering infectious disease spread. A small but significant number of adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines have been reported. Here, we aim to identify possible common factors in such adverse reactions to enable strategies that [...] Read more.
Good vaccine safety and reliability are essential for successfully countering infectious disease spread. A small but significant number of adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines have been reported. Here, we aim to identify possible common factors in such adverse reactions to enable strategies that reduce the incidence of such reactions by using patient data to classify and characterise those at risk. We examined patient medical histories and data documenting postvaccination effects and outcomes. The data analyses were conducted using a range of statistical approaches followed by a series of machine learning classification algorithms. In most cases, a group of similar features was significantly associated with poor patient reactions. These included patient prior illnesses, admission to hospitals and SARS-CoV-2 reinfection. The analyses indicated that patient age, gender, taking other medications, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, allergic history and heart disease are the most significant pre-existing factors associated with the risk of poor outcome. In addition, long duration of hospital treatments, dyspnoea, various kinds of pain, headache, cough, asthenia, and physical disability were the most significant clinical predictors. The machine learning classifiers that are trained with medical history were also able to predict patients with complication-free vaccination and have an accuracy score above 90%. Our study identifies profiles of individuals that may need extra monitoring and care (e.g., vaccination at a location with access to comprehensive clinical support) to reduce negative outcomes through classification approaches. Full article
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