Data-Driven Prediction of Athletes’ Performance based on their Social Media Presence

We investigated whether proxies of athlete social media activity are useful features for a machine learning model to predict athletes’ performance in subsequent competitions. We extracted millions of tweets that NBA basketball players posted themselves or were tagged in and derived features reflecting players’ mood, social media behaviour, and sleep quality before games. Using these and other non-social media-related features, we performed statistical tests to examine whether the features significantly improve the accuracy of a random forest model for predicting players’ BPM scores in upcoming games.

Classification of cardiac cohorts based on morphological and hemodynamic features derived from 4D PC-MRI data

We investigate the potential of morphological and hemodynamic features extracted from measured blood flow data in the aorta to classify hear-thealthy volunteers (HHV) and patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV). Furthermore, we determine features that distinguish male vs. female patients and elderly HHV vs. BAV patients. We propose a data analysis pipeline for cardiac status classification, encompassing feature selection, model training, and hyperparameter tuning.

Intelligent Assistance for Expert-Driven Subpopulation Discovery in High-Dimensional Timestamped Medical Data

My PhD thesis.

Phenotyping chronic tinnitus patients using self-report questionnaire data: cluster analysis and visual comparison

Knowledge of different disease phenotypes can help understand (a) which patient subpopulations seek treatment and (b) the response to treatment within each subgroup. In this paper, we presented a workflow to (i) determine distinct phenotypes of medical conditions in high-dimensional data, (ii) visualize these phenotypes to explore and compare essential subpopulation characteristics, and (iii) interactively inspect them and their change over time with an interactive web application. We evaluated our workflow by identifying four distinct phenotypes of tinnitus patients.

Gender-Specific Differences in Patients With Chronic Tinnitus - Baseline Characteristics and Treatment Effects

Study examining (1) how male and female tinnitus patients differ, (2) the extent to which gender is related to (tinnitus) questionnaire responses, and (3) which baseline questionnaire items are related to tinnitus distress, depression, and treatment response, only one gender.

Plantar temperatures in stance position: A comparative study with healthy volunteers and diabetes patients diagnosed with sensoric neuropathy

Study on differences in posture-dependent plantar temperature changes between patients with diabetes and healthy volunteers. Results show that the underlying blood supply is similarly regulated as in healthy controls and that the plantar temperature is not disturbed with diabetes. Timely temperature changes occur in stance position, which may lay the groundwork for approaches to identify pressure and temperature patterns that are indicatory of emerging microcirculatory foot problems with diabetes in the future.

Development and internal validation of a depression severity prediction model for tinnitus patients based on questionnaire responses and socio-demographics

Study predicting depression severity in tinnitus patients after treatment based on self-report questionnaire data acquired at baseline and ranking of features w.r.t. their attribution towards model prediction.

Tinnitus-related distress after multimodal treatment can be characterized using a key subset of baseline variables

A machine learning workflow to predict tinnitus distress after treatment based on self-report questionnaire data acquired at baseline and extraction of statistics and visualizations representing feature importance on a population-, subpopulation- and individual level.

Rupture Status Classification of Intracranial Aneurysms Using Morphological Parameters

We proposed a pipeline for morphological feature extraction and rupture status classification with subsequent feature ranking and inspection in intracranial aneurysms.