Towards modeling evolving longitudinal health trajectories with a transformer-based deep learning model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08873v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:13:53 GMT
• Title: Towards modeling evolving longitudinal health trajectories with a transformer-based deep learning model
• Authors: Hans Moen, Vishnu Raj, Andrius Vabalas, Markus Perola, Samuel Kaski, Andrea Ganna, Pekka Marttinen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a straightforward approach for training a Transformer-based deep learning model in a way that lets us analyze how individuals' trajectories change over time.<n>We focus here on a general task of predicting the onset of a range of common diseases in a given future forecast interval.<n>We find that this model performs comparably to other models, including a bi-directional transformer model, in terms of basic prediction performance.
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• Abstract: Health registers contain rich information about individuals' health histories. Here our interest lies in understanding how individuals' health trajectories evolve in a nationwide longitudinal dataset with coded features, such as clinical codes, procedures, and drug purchases. We introduce a straightforward approach for training a Transformer-based deep learning model in a way that lets us analyze how individuals' trajectories change over time. This is achieved by modifying the training objective and by applying a causal attention mask. We focus here on a general task of predicting the onset of a range of common diseases in a given future forecast interval. However, instead of providing a single prediction about diagnoses that could occur in this forecast interval, our approach enable the model to provide continuous predictions at every time point up until, and conditioned on, the time of the forecast period. We find that this model performs comparably to other models, including a bi-directional transformer model, in terms of basic prediction performance while at the same time offering promising trajectory modeling properties. We explore a couple of ways to use this model for analyzing health trajectories and aiding in early detection of events that forecast possible later disease onsets. We hypothesize that this method may be helpful in continuous monitoring of peoples' health trajectories and enabling interventions in ongoing health trajectories, as well as being useful in retrospective analyses.

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