Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS
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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS
@catgaohow.bsky.social
Pulm Crit at NU via IM at Yale | 🐱 | 😷 | data science and machine learning in the ICU | 🐣👩‍🍼👨‍👩‍👧 | http://bit.ly/nupccm
Thanks for this nice summary! Also I’m surprised 8% in invasive arm had hematoma/hemorrhage? What
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Lots of great questions from the audience!!
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
McCormick would benefit from airport style moving walkways lol
October 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Being stuck between med/Surg floors and thus forced to adhere to their floor plans when pavilions are built
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I’m digging the illustration style
October 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Awesome work!!
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is why I tell the fellows they have to learn r/python/etc so they can work with the data directly!! Being in the weeds will give you perspective you would never get otherwise!
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
3/ Then came the LLMs 🤖✨
GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, Llama 3.1 🦙, Mixtral-8x7B.
Clear winner: LLMs by far 🚀

To validate externally, we labeled MIMIC notes 📚 and published theses annotations so others can build on this:
🔗 physionet.org/content/immu...

Paper code: github.com/NUSCRIPT/gug...
Immunosuppressive Condition and Medication Annotations for Admission Notes in the MIMIC-III Database v1.0.0
This database contains 200 MIMIC-III admission notes with adjudicated labels for histories of various immunosuppressive conditions and usage of various immunosuppressive medications.
physionet.org
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
2/ Most studies lean on structured data (ICD codes 📊) to capture comorbidities.
We tested 10 thresholds → decent performance, but not perfect.

Next: classic NLP 📝
6 bag-of-words classifiers (NB, lasso, ridge, decision tree 🌳, random forest 🌲, SVM).
Results? Also not bad!
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM