TARGETING UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS IN PRECISION MEDICINE: A FEDERATED TRANSFER LEARNING APPROACH

• Published in: The annals of applied statistics Vol. 17; no. 4; p. 2970
• Main Authors: Li, By Sai, Cai, Tianxi, Duan, Rui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2023
• Subjects: transfer learning; health equity; precision medicine; Federated learning; risk prediction

The limited representation of minorities and disadvantaged populations in large-scale clinical and genomics research poses a significant barrier to translating precision medicine research into practice. Prediction models are likely to underperform in underrepresented populations due to heterogeneity...