Integrative Machine Learning Framework for Health Predictions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current predictive data analysis in healthcare struggles to capture individual patient experiences effectively, as existing models fail to reliably integrate symptomatic and sentiment-based data, leading to inefficient diagnosis and treatment due to subjective and unstructured natural language inputs.

Innovation Solution

A system that aggregates patient data over time through a user interface, employing machine learning to analyze sentiment and symptoms, generating human-readable summaries that integrate symptomatic and sentiment-based predictive insights, thereby improving diagnostic accuracy and treatment decisions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If existing predictive models analyze symptomatic data only, then the analysis process is simple, but the diagnostic accuracy is insufficient due to ignoring patient sentiment experiences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediagnostic accuracyVSAvoidmodel complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines symptomatic data analysis with sentiment-based data analysis into a unified predictive model. The system integrates multiple data sources including patient symptoms, sentiment scores from natural language processing, and health monitoring logs to generate comprehensive predictive inferences, thereby improving diagnostic accuracy while managing model complexity through structured integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Loss of information

If the system processes unstructured natural language inputs, then patient experience data is captured, but data processing efficiency decreases due to subjectivity and unstructured format

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepatient experience informationVSAvoiddata processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces sentiment scoring as an intermediary mechanism that translates unstructured natural language patient experiences into quantifiable sentiment scores. These scores serve as a bridge between subjective patient narratives and objective predictive analysis, enabling efficient processing while preserving patient experience information through standardized sentiment metrics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms unstructured natural language data into structured sentiment scores through natural language processing. By converting qualitative patient experiences into quantitative sentiment parameters, the system enables efficient computational processing while maintaining the essential information content of patient narratives.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If sentiment-based and symptomatic data are analyzed separately, then each analysis is straightforward, but predictive reliability is reduced due to lack of integration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepredictive reliabilityVSAvoidintegration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates sentiment-based predictive inferences with symptom-based predictive inferences through a unified machine learning framework. The system combines distributions from both data sources to generate aggregate predictive inferences, improving reliability by capturing the interplay between patient sentiment and clinical symptoms while managing integration complexity through structured computational approaches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Loss of information

If detailed patient monitoring logs are stored, then comprehensive data is available for analysis, but storage and transmission requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata completenessVSAvoiddata storage volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts essential predictive features from detailed patient monitoring logs, including sentiment scores and key symptomatic indicators. By identifying and retaining only the most predictive elements rather than storing complete raw datasets, the system maintains data completeness for predictive purposes while significantly reducing storage and transmission requirements through selective feature extraction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11557399B2Integrative machine learning framework for combining sentiment-based and symptom-based predictive inferences
Publication Date: 2023.01.17 OPTUM INC
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AI summary

Techniques for integrative machine learning using sentiment-based predictive inferences and symptom-based predictive are discussed herein. In one example, a method includes determining, based on one or more health monitoring logs, a first distribution of symptomatic prediction labels over a first period of time associated with the one or more health monitoring logs; processing the one or more health monitoring logs and using a sentiment detection machine learning model to determine a second distribution of extracted sentiment scores over the first period of time; generating, based on the first distribution and the second distribution, an aggregate distribution of inferred health-related predictions over the first period of time; and causing display of an aggregate distribution user interface that is configured to display the aggregate distribution.