{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/patient-subtyping-via-time-aware-lstm","title":"Patient Subtyping via Time-Aware LSTM Networks","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2017-08-13","proceeding":"KDD '17 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2017 8","authors":["Inci M. Baytas","Cao Xiao","Xi Zhang","Fei Wang","Anil K. Jain","Jiayu Zhou"],"abstract":"In the study of various diseases, heterogeneity among patients usually leads to different progression patterns and may require different types of therapeutic intervention. Therefore, it is important to study patient subtyping, which is grouping of patients into disease characterizing subtypes. Subtyping from complex patient data is challenging because of the information heterogeneity and temporal dynamics. Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) has been successfully used in many domains for processing sequential data, and recently applied for analyzing longitudinal patient records. The LSTM units are designed to handle data with constant elapsed times between consecutive elements of a sequence. Given that time lapse between successive elements in patient records can vary from days to months, the design of traditional LSTM may lead to suboptimal performance. In this paper, we propose a novel LSTM unit called Time-Aware LSTM (T-LSTM) to handle irregular time intervals in longitudinal patient records. We learn a subspace decomposition of the cell memory which enables time decay to discount the memory content according to the elapsed time. We propose a patient subtyping model that leverages the proposed T-LSTM in an auto-encoder to learn a powerful single representation for sequential records of patients, which are then used to cluster patients into clinical subtypes. Experiments on synthetic and real world datasets show that the proposed T-LSTM architecture captures the underlying structures in the sequences with time irregularities.","url_abs":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3097983.3097997","url_pdf":"http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/Publications/MachineLearning/Baytasetal_PatientSubtypingViaTimeAwareLSTMNetworks.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"patient-subtyping-via-time-aware-lstm","repo_url":"https://github.com/illidanlab/T-LSTM","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"multivariate-time-series-forecasting","task_name":"Multivariate Time Series Forecasting"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"lstm","method_name":"LSTM"},{"method_slug":"sigmoid-activation","method_name":"Sigmoid Activation"},{"method_slug":"tanh-activation","method_name":"Tanh Activation"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/multivariate-time-series-forecasting-on-mimic","task":"Multivariate Time Series Forecasting","dataset":"MIMIC-III","model":"T-LSTM","rank_in_archive_order":5,"of":5,"metrics":{"MSE":"0.790 ± 0.060","NegLL":"1.02"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/multivariate-time-series-forecasting-on-ushcn","task":"Multivariate Time Series Forecasting","dataset":"USHCN-Daily","model":"T-LSTM","rank_in_archive_order":5,"of":8,"metrics":{"MSE":"0.59"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}