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Mixture of Input-Output Hidden Markov Models for Heterogeneous Disease Progression Modeling
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Healthcare AI and COVID-19, ICML 2022, PMLR 184:41-53, 2022.
Abstract
A particular challenge for disease progression
modeling is the heterogeneity of a disease and
its manifestations in the patients. Existing approaches often assume the presence of a single
disease progression characteristics which is unlikely for neurodegenerative disorders such as
Parkinson’s disease. In this paper, we propose
a hierarchical time-series model that can discover
multiple disease progression dynamics. The proposed model is an extension of an input-output
hidden Markov model that takes into account the
clinical assessments of patients’ health status and
prescribed medications. We illustrate the benefits of our model using a synthetically generated
dataset and a real-world longitudinal dataset for
Parkinson’s disease.