Algorithmic fairness in artificial intelligence for medicine and healthcare

RJ Chen, JJ Wang, DFK Williamson, TY Chen… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
In healthcare, the development and deployment of insufficiently fair systems of artificial
intelligence (AI) can undermine the delivery of equitable care. Assessments of AI models …

Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes

S Feuerriegel, D Frauen, V Melnychuk, J Schweisthal… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Causal machine learning (ML) offers flexible, data-driven methods for predicting treatment
outcomes including efficacy and toxicity, thereby supporting the assessment and safety of …

Optimal transport for treatment effect estimation

H Wang, J Fan, Z Chen, H Li, W Liu… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating individual treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to
treatment selection bias. Prevalent methods mainly mitigate this issue by aligning different …

Nonparametric estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects: From theory to learning algorithms

A Curth, M Van der Schaar - International Conference on …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
The need to evaluate treatment effectiveness is ubiquitous in most of empirical science, and
interest in flexibly investigating effect heterogeneity is growing rapidly. To do so, a multitude …

The causal-neural connection: Expressiveness, learnability, and inference

K **a, KZ Lee, Y Bengio… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
One of the central elements of any causal inference is an object called structural causal
model (SCM), which represents a collection of mechanisms and exogenous sources of …

Potential outcome and directed acyclic graph approaches to causality: Relevance for empirical practice in economics

GW Imbens - Journal of Economic Literature, 2020 - aeaweb.org
In this essay I discuss potential outcome and graphical approaches to causality, and their
relevance for empirical work in economics. I review some of the work on directed acyclic …

Diffusion causal models for counterfactual estimation

P Sanchez, SA Tsaftaris - arxiv preprint arxiv:2202.10166, 2022 - arxiv.org
We consider the task of counterfactual estimation from observational imaging data given a
known causal structure. In particular, quantifying the causal effect of interventions for high …

Causality in econometrics: Choice vs chance

GW Imbens - Econometrica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This essay describes the evolution and recent convergence of two methodological
approaches to causal inference. The first one, in statistics, started with the analysis and …

On inductive biases for heterogeneous treatment effect estimation

A Curth, M Van der Schaar - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We investigate how to exploit structural similarities of an individual's potential outcomes
(POs) under different treatments to obtain better estimates of conditional average treatment …

Generalization bounds and representation learning for estimation of potential outcomes and causal effects

FD Johansson, U Shalit, N Kallus, D Sontag - Journal of Machine Learning …, 2022 - jmlr.org
Practitioners in diverse fields such as healthcare, economics and education are eager to
apply machine learning to improve decision making. The cost and impracticality of …