Temporally informed random forests for suicide risk prediction.
Ilkin BayramliVictor CastroYuval Barak-CorrenEmily M MadsenMatthew K NockJordan W SmollerBen Y ReisPublished in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2021)
We demonstrate that temporal variables have an important role to play in suicide risk detection and that requiring their inclusion in all RF trees leads to increased predictive performance. Integrating temporal information into risk prediction models helps the models interpret patient data in temporal context, improving predictive performance.