Applying Artificial Intelligence Methods for the Estimation of Disease Incidence: The Utility of Language Models

• Main Authors: Yuanzhao Zhang (Author), Robert Walecki (Author), Joanne R. Winter (Author), Felix J. S. Bragman (Author), Sara Lourenco (Author), Christopher Hart (Author), Adam Baker (Author), Yura Perov (Author), Saurabh Johri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: AI-driven digital health tools often rely on estimates of disease incidence or prevalence, but obtaining these estimates is costly and time-consuming. We explored the use of machine learning models that leverage contextual information about diseases from unstructured text, to estimate di...