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Zihan Liang 0002
dblp:303/1479-2
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-3166-3129ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Medical and health informatics
multimodal clinical data |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Causal Representation Learning from Multimodal Clinical Records under Non-Random Modality Missingness · EMNLP 2025 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
missing data |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Causal Representation Learning from Multimodal Clinical Records under Non-Random Modality Missingness · EMNLP 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
modality fusion · 1.7contrastive learning · 1.7causal representation learning · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Causal Representation Learning from Multimodal Clinical Records under Non-Random Modality MissingnessabstractClinical notes contain rich patient information, such as diagnoses or medications, making them valuable for patient representation learning.Recent advances in large language models have further improved the ability to extract meaningful representations from clinical texts.However, clinical notes are often missing.For example, in our analysis of the MIMIC-IV dataset, 24.5% of patients have no available discharge summaries.In such cases, representations can be learned from other modalities such as structured data, chest X-rays, or radiology reports.Yet the availability of these modalities is influenced by clinical decision-making and varies across patients, resulting in modality missingnot-at-random (MMNAR) patterns.We propose a causal representation learning framework that leverages observed data and informative missingness in multimodal clinical records.It consists of: (1) an MMNAR-aware modality fusion component that integrates structured data, imaging, and text while conditioning on missingness patterns to capture patient health and clinician-driven assignment; (2) a modality reconstruction component with contrastive learning to ensure semantic sufficiency in representation learning; and (3) a multitask outcome prediction model with a rectifier that corrects for residual bias from specific modality observation patterns.Comprehensive evaluations across MIMIC-IV and eICU show consistent gains over the strongest baselines, achieving up to 13 .8% improvement for hospital readmission and 13 .1 % for ICU admission (AUC, relative to best baseline). Zihan Liang 0002, Ziwen Pan, Ruoxuan Xiong |
EMNLP | 1 |