Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Machine learning predicts kids at risk of not getting vaccinated

#1
C C Offline
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robo...vaccinated

EXCERPT: Growing skepticism toward vaccines has sparked a flareup of measles outbreaks affecting New York City neighborhoods, cruise ships, international airports and even Google’s Mountain View headquarters. To help family physicians reach out to vaccine-hesitant parents, data scientists have shown how computer models can predict the likelihood that an individual child’s parents will not get him or her vaccinated. [...] By identifying families at greatest risk of not getting vaccinated, computer models could enable health officials and physicians to talk with parents at the stage when they remain undecided about vaccines.

To help boost vaccination rates, Tin Oreskovic initiated and coordinated a University of Chicago Data Science for Social Good project [...] After comparing the results from four machine learning models, researchers decided upon a LASSO logistic regression model that identified vaccine-hesitant families with 72-percent precision. The model pruned the large number of possible data features affecting vaccination rates down to just 25 of the most important features—something that improved the chance of the model’s predictive power holding up for other groups of children beyond those in the training datasets. (Some features that raised child risk scores included having children who sat, walked, and spoke at a later age than their peers.)

Just as importantly, the team chose the LASSO model because it presented the results for child risk scores in a way that humans could understand. Interpretability is never a guarantee with many machine learning models, but in this case it allowed both data scientists and health officials to understand and trust the LASSO model’s reasons for singling out certain families as being at higher risk of hesitating to vaccinate... (MORE)
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Article Want to find UFOs? That's a job for machine learning C C 1 117 Aug 22, 2023 10:25 PM
Last Post: Magical Realist
  Solving a machine-learning mystery + Can pigeons match wits with AI? C C 0 62 Feb 13, 2023 07:00 PM
Last Post: C C
  New technology to reduce potholes (machine learning technique) C C 0 136 Nov 5, 2022 04:40 AM
Last Post: C C
  Algorithm predicts future crimes with 90% accuracy + Model 4 predicting belief change C C 0 88 Aug 22, 2022 05:46 AM
Last Post: C C
  Dealing with online toxic speech by selecting the decision makers (machine learning) C C 0 72 Jun 8, 2022 07:27 PM
Last Post: C C
  Britain's butterflies are getting bigger as climate changes (computer vision) C C 0 67 Apr 5, 2022 06:12 PM
Last Post: C C
  Machine learning reimagines the building blocks of computing C C 0 84 Mar 16, 2022 05:18 PM
Last Post: C C
  How bodies get smarts + New link to an old model could crack mystery of deep learning C C 0 98 Oct 12, 2021 05:24 PM
Last Post: C C
  10 ways to apply machine learning in Earth & space sciences + Edge of chaos C C 0 122 Jun 29, 2021 11:08 PM
Last Post: C C
  Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations C C 0 102 May 5, 2021 12:24 AM
Last Post: C C



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)