Krauthammer Lab

University of Zurich & University Hospital Zurich

Our Research

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Clinical Data Science

Translational Bioinformatics

Projects

Long-read sequencing - Part I

An introduction to long-read sequencing.

30 days All-Cause Readmission

Comparing neural-networks versus logistic regression for predicting readmission.

autoDISCERN

Assessing the quality of online health information with AI.

Drug-Drug Interactions

Novel computational method for drug-drug interaction predictions which are an important consideration for patient treatment.

Automated Reports from Xrays

Using deep learning for automatically generated medical reports describing radiological images.

Featured Publications

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Laura Kinkead, Ahmed Allam, Michael Krauthammer

June 2020 BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

AutoDiscern: Rating the Quality of Online Health Information with Hierarchical Encoder Attention-based Neural Networks

To help patients find high quality health information online, we developed a Deep Learning system that evaluates the quality of online health articles. The system implements the DISCERN criteria, which checks for references, balanced writing, and more.

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Ahmed Allam, Michael Krauthammer, Mate Nagy, George Thoma

June 2019 Scientific Reports

Neural networks versus Logistic regression for 30 days all-cause readmission prediction

We conclude that data from patient timelines improve 30 day readmission prediction, that a logistic regression with LASSO has equal performance to the best neural network model and that the use of administrative data result in competitive performance compared to published approaches based on richer clinical datasets.

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Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Michael Krauthammer

PI

Clinical Data Science, Translational Bioinformatics, Cancer Genetics

Senior Researchers and Postdocs

Ahmed Allam

Senior Researcher

Machine Learning

Zsolt Balázs

Postdoc

Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Long-read sequencing, cfDNA sequencing

Nicolas Perez

Postdoc

Machine Learning, NLP, Image Processing

Anna Sintsova

Postdoc

Bioinformatics, Microbiome

Farhad Nooralahzadeh

Research Assistant

NLP, Machine Learning, Information Extraction, Domain Adaptation

Grad Students

Matthias Dittberner

PhD Student

Artificial Intelligence, Causal Inference

Kyriakos Schwarz

PhD Student

Bioinformatics, Computational Pharmacology, Deep Learning

Research Assistant

Ivna Ivanković

Research Assistant

Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics

Leopold Franz

Research Assistant

Machine Learning for Health Care

Matteo Berchier

Research Assistant

Human Disease Monitoring, Smart Sensors, IoT

Software Developers

Laura Kinkead

Scientific Software Developer

Machine Learning

Administrators

Claudia Stenger

Administrative Assistant

Mascots

Globi

Assistant Regional Manager

Sleeping, Hunting birds and mice, Scratching trees

Oscar

The Last Airbender

Jumping all over the place 🦘, Knocking over Chess pieces ♟️♕, remote control 📺 and everything in front of him, Playing soccer ⚽ and chasing butterflies 🦋, Sleeping 😴 in front of laptops 💻, Participating in origami 📄🏮 and crafting activities 🧶🎨