Modeling Human-Informed Variables in Medical Data

Abstract

In the Age of Information and Artificial Intelligence, data plays a major role in analyzing and understanding underlying trends and patterns as well as informing processes and operations. Medical data often captures information beyond mere patient conditions and state, but also human behavioral aspects of the medical process, affecting the data itself and the decisions informed by it. Modeling these variables could help us understand how they influence decisions in the field and potentially augment our models for better and more nuanced predictions. In the first study, we look into how external non-medical factors might affect decision-making by investigating the effect of 30-day mortality metrics on discharge rates following surgeries in Cardio-Vascular Intensive Care Units (CVICU) using data from the MIMIC-IV dataset. In the second study, we examine data extraction from human-notes for enhancing organ procurement decision processes.