Feature selection

Madrona Awards 2019 Madrona Prize to UW Project That Applies Artificial Intelligence to Build Accurate and Easy-to-Use Models for Physicians to Employ in Time-Sensitive and Potentially Life-Saving Situations

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

CoAI: Cost Aware Artificial Intelligence for Health Care applies ML to help healthcare professionals use accurate predictive models in time-sensitive and potentially life-saving situations.

Key Points: 
  • CoAI: Cost Aware Artificial Intelligence for Health Care applies ML to help healthcare professionals use accurate predictive models in time-sensitive and potentially life-saving situations.
  • The field of cost-sensitive ML builds algorithms that automate the feature selection step, automatically choosing the best subset of input variables to make a high-accuracy prediction.
  • The Madrona Prize is awarded at the end of the Allen Schools annual Industry Affiliates Research Day.
  • Since Madronas inception more than two decades ago, Madrona has funded 18 companies out of the Allen School.