Paper ID: 2403.01628

Recent Advances, Applications, and Open Challenges in Machine Learning for Health: Reflections from Research Roundtables at ML4H 2023 Symposium

Hyewon Jeong, Sarah Jabbour, Yuzhe Yang, Rahul Thapta, Hussein Mozannar, William Jongwon Han, Nikita Mehandru, Michael Wornow, Vladislav Lialin, Xin Liu, Alejandro Lozano, Jiacheng Zhu, Rafal Dariusz Kocielnik, Keith Harrigian, Haoran Zhang, Edward Lee, Milos Vukadinovic, Aparna Balagopalan, Vincent Jeanselme, Katherine Matton, Ilker Demirel, Jason Fries, Parisa Rashidi, Brett Beaulieu-Jones, Xuhai Orson Xu, Matthew McDermott, Tristan Naumann, Monica Agrawal, Marinka Zitnik, Berk Ustun, Edward Choi, Kristen Yeom, Gamze Gursoy, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Emma Pierson, George Chen, Sanjat Kanjilal, Michael Oberst, Linying Zhang, Harvineet Singh, Tom Hartvigsen, Helen Zhou, Chinasa T. Okolo

The third ML4H symposium was held in person on December 10, 2023, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The symposium included research roundtable sessions to foster discussions between participants and senior researchers on timely and relevant topics for the \ac{ML4H} community. Encouraged by the successful virtual roundtables in the previous year, we organized eleven in-person roundtables and four virtual roundtables at ML4H 2022. The organization of the research roundtables at the conference involved 17 Senior Chairs and 19 Junior Chairs across 11 tables. Each roundtable session included invited senior chairs (with substantial experience in the field), junior chairs (responsible for facilitating the discussion), and attendees from diverse backgrounds with interest in the session's topic. Herein we detail the organization process and compile takeaways from these roundtable discussions, including recent advances, applications, and open challenges for each topic. We conclude with a summary and lessons learned across all roundtables. This document serves as a comprehensive review paper, summarizing the recent advancements in machine learning for healthcare as contributed by foremost researchers in the field.

Submitted: Mar 3, 2024