Emma Rocheteau

ML for Healthcare Researcher, Final Year Medical Student

University of Cambridge

Hello!

I have recently graduated with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where I worked on machine learning problems for healthcare as part of the AI group in the computer science department. I am also a final year medical student and I will become an (academic) foundation doctor in West Suffolk and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals from August 2023.

I have previously intercalated in part IIA engineering.

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Interests

Deep Learning
Graph Neural Networks
Electronic Health Records
Healthcare
Medicine

Education

MB BChir (in progress), 2023
University of Cambridge
PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare, 2022
University of Cambridge
BA in Engineering/Preclinical Medicine, 2016
University of Cambridge

Research Interests

My work focuses on predicting patient outcomes in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). When designing my deep learning models, I am often inspired by my knowledge of clinical decision making.

For example, for time series processing in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), I use temporal and pointwise convolution to efficiently extract patient trajectories over time – a method inspired by clinicians.

I am also working on using graph neural networks to link the experiences of similar patients. The rationale is that when clinicians make decisions they will typically lean on their past experience, especially if they are dealing with a rare disease.

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Featured Publications

Emma Rocheteau

December 2022 In Apollo

Representation Learning for Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

My thesis focuses on representation learning for patients in intensive care, aiming to improve patient outcomes and healthcare system efficiency. It addresses predicting patient deaths and estimated discharge dates, essential for managing hospital beds effectively. The research incorporates clinical knowledge, periodic signals, systematic biases, and graph neural networks to enhance length of stay prediction, mortality prediction, and patient outcome models for mechanically ventilated patients, with the goal of discovering hidden patient phenotypes and creating real-world deployable representations.

Emma Rocheteau, Ioana Bica, Pietro Liò, Ari Ercole

December 2022 In TS4H at NeurIPS 2020

Dynamic Outcomes-Based Clustering of Disease Trajectory in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

We trained different time series models to embed medical time series data from mechanical ventilation episodes, and then we clustered these to uncover hidden patient subtypes in the data.

Emma Rocheteau, Pietro Liò, Stephanie Hyland

April 2021 In CHIL Conference 2021 (also ML4H at NeurIPS 2020 and HSYS at ICML 2020)

Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks for Length of Stay Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit

Our model, Temporal Pointwise Convolution (TPC), is specifically designed to mitigate common challenges with Electronic Health Records, such as skewness, irregular sampling and missing data. We have achieved significant performance benefits of 18-68% over the Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) network, and the Transformer.

Emma Rocheteau, Catherine Tong, Petar Veličković, Nic Lane, Pietro Liò

January 2021 In W3PHIAI-21 and DLG-AAAI'21 at AAAI 2021

Predicting Patient Outcomes with Graph Representation Learning

Our model, LSTM-GNN, is designed to take advantage of similarity between patients in the EHR (established using the diagnoses). First, it processes the time series data for each patient with the LSTM component, before sharing information within the neighbourhood of patients via the GNN. This is an alternative way of presenting diagnoses information (the common approach is to use an encoder in the late stages of a model). We found that using both methods together gains the best performance.

Other Papers

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Emma Rocheteau (2022). On the role of artificial intelligence in psychiatry. In BJPsych.

PDF Cite Cambridge Core

Emma Rocheteau, Doyoon Kim (2020). Deep Transfer Learning for Automated Diagnosis of Skin Lesions from Photographs. In ML4MH at NeurIPS 2020.

PDF Cite Poster arXiv

Jacob Deasy, Emma Rocheteau, Katharina Kohler, Daniel J. Stubbs, Pietro Barbiero, Pietro Liò, Ari Ercole (2020). Forecasting Ultra-early Intensive Care Strain from COVID-19 in England. In medRxiv.

PDF Cite Code Poster medRxiv

Experience

Co-founder and Teaching Lead

Society of AI in Medicine

Oct 2021 – Present

Society dedicated to learning about how AI is revolutionising healthcare.

Academic Director

Institute for Medical AI

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021

Institute dedicated to advancing patient-centered care with medical AI.

Researcher Intern

Microsoft Research

Jul 2019 – Oct 2019 Cambridge, UK

13-week internship with the healthcare intelligence team investigating length of stay and discharge location prediction in the ICU.

Data Science Intern

Featurespace

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 Cambridge

8-week internship involving feature engineering mouse/keyboard data to identify financial fraud using a random forest classifier.

Physiology Supervisor

University of Cambridge

Jan 2017 – Present Cambridge

I teach 11 first year undergraduate medical students cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, digestion, endocrinology and nerve and muscle electrophysiology. My role as supervisor involves tutorials each week, plus marking work (mainly essays) and answering any questions the students may have.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Dynamic Outcomes-Based Clustering of Disease Trajectory in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

R2HCAI Spotlight at AAAI 2023

Feb 13, 2023 3:00 PM Washington DC

Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks for Length of Stay Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit

CHIL Proceedings Paper Talk. The original talk can be viewed at 01:59:00 into Day 1 Proceedings on the CHIL website. There is a Q&A immediately following the talk.

Apr 8, 2021 3:00 PM Online

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Reviewing Experience

Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (MLHC) 2023
Conference on Health Inference and Learning (CHIL) 2023
Conference on Health Inference and Learning (CHIL) 2022
Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Symposium
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (MLHC) 2021
Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics (MLPCP) Workshop at ICLR 2021
Trustworthy AI for Healthcare (TAIH) Workshop at AAAI 2021
AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit
Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Workshop at NeurIPS 2020*
Graph Representation Learning and Beyond (GRL+) Workshop at ICML 2020
Graph Representation Learning (GRL) Workshop at NeurIPS 2019
Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Workshop at NeurIPS 2019

*My ML4H reviews were explicitly recognised as excellent by metareviewers

Awards

Best Paper Award, W3PHIAI Workshop at AAAI 2023
Eliot Slater Prize in Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, 2022
Finalist in the CSAR Awards, for the societal impact of my PhD, 2022
Runner-Up for Best Short Paper Award, W3PHIAI Workshop at AAAI 2021
Best Talk Prize, Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference 2020
Best Poster Prize (49 submissions), 2nd HBP Student Conference 2018
AC Comfort Essay Prize, Royal Society of Medicine, 2017
Cambridge Medical Journal Essay Competition, 1st Prize, 2017
3rd Year Computer-Based Project Prize, Department of Engineering, 2016
Gold Rob Clarke Award for Undergraduate Research in Physiology, 2016
Churchill College Medical and Veterinary Prize, 2014, 2015 & 2016
Gold Award in the British Biology Olympiad, Royal Society of Biology, 2013
Gold Award in the British Chemistry Olympiad, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013
Gold Award (& top 100) in the British Physics Olympiad, University of Oxford, 2013