Posts in Healthcare and Medicine

A Machine Learning Framework for Detecting and Mitigating Cultural Bias in Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening (2025)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Background: Autism screening tools like the AQ-10 were largely developed in Western settings. When used globally, they may unintentionally favor certain[…]

Explainable AI Reveals Healthcare Cost Determinants When Accurate Forecasting Fails (2025)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Background: Healthcare costs are rising quickly, and understanding what drives them has become essential. Traditional prediction models often miss the mark[…]

Estimating the Health Impact of Multi-Pollutant Reduction Strategies Using Double Machine Learning (2024)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Heart disease is a global killer, and lifestyle changes like quitting smoking are key to prevention. But not everyone benefits the[…]

Personalized Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Lifestyle Interventions Using Causal Machine Learning (2024)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Heart disease is a major global health issue, and lifestyle changes like quitting smoking are often recommended to prevent it. However,[…]

Contrastive Pre-training for Data-Efficient Parkinson’s Disease Detection from Speech Signals (2023)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Parkinson’s Disease (PD) affects millions globally, with speech changes often appearing early. Most AI models need large amounts of labeled data,[…]

Causal AI Reveals Potential Harm of Standard Hemodynamic Management: A Double Machine Learning Study of Critical Care Patients (2023)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Keeping blood pressure (mean arterial pressure, MAP) above 65 mmHg is standard in critical care, but studies often get skewed because[…]

Deep Phenotyping of Coronary Artery Disease Using Unsupervised Deep Learning Reveals Three Distinct Clinical Subtypes (2022)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) varies widely in how it affects people, making personalized treatment tricky. Standard methods focus on how blocked[…]

Multi-View Evidential Deep Learning with Uncertainty Quantification for Robust Breast Cancer Diagnosis (2021)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Breast cancer diagnosis with AI faces hurdles like uneven datasets, overly confident wrong predictions, and no way to measure uncertainty, which[…]

Unsupervised Learning of Cardiovascular Aging Trajectories from Cross-Sectional Population Data Reveals Critical Early-Adulthood Divergence (2021)

Author: Mohammad Motaghianfar Abstract Heart disease varies widely as people age, but tracking it over time is costly and complex. Cross-sectional data offers a cheaper[…]