PatternsPub Date : 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101229
Wouter A C van Amsterdam, Nan van Geloven, Jesse H Krijthe, Rajesh Ranganath, Giovanni Cinà
{"title":"When accurate prediction models yield harmful self-fulfilling prophecies.","authors":"Wouter A C van Amsterdam, Nan van Geloven, Jesse H Krijthe, Rajesh Ranganath, Giovanni Cinà","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101229","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prediction models are popular in medical research and practice. Many expect that by predicting patient-specific outcomes, these models have the potential to inform treatment decisions, and they are frequently lauded as instruments for personalized, data-driven healthcare. We show, however, that using prediction models for decision-making can lead to harm, even when the predictions exhibit good discrimination after deployment. These models are harmful self-fulfilling prophecies: their deployment harms a group of patients, but the worse outcome of these patients does not diminish the discrimination of the model. Our main result is a formal characterization of a set of such prediction models. Next, we show that models that are well calibrated before and after deployment are useless for decision-making, as they make no change in the data distribution. These results call for a reconsideration of standard practices for validation and deployment of prediction models that are used in medical decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 4","pages":"101229"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12010445/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101205
Melissa D McCradden, Mjaye L Mazwi, Lauren Oakden-Rayner
{"title":"Can an accurate model be bad?","authors":"Melissa D McCradden, Mjaye L Mazwi, Lauren Oakden-Rayner","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Outcome-prediction models can harm patients even when they have good accuracy, as shown in a recent <i>Patterns</i> paper by Van Amsterdam et al. In this preview, we consider the ethical and empirical implications of this work by highlighting the impact of reifying self-fulfilling prophecies and propose a reorientation toward actions over accuracy as a priority for AI integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 4","pages":"101205"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12010442/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144062726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101228
Jesus Gonzalez-Ferrer, Mohammed A Mostajo-Radji
{"title":"Toward automated and explainable high-throughput perturbation analysis in single cells.","authors":"Jesus Gonzalez-Ferrer, Mohammed A Mostajo-Radji","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101228","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perturbation analysis in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data is challenging due to the complexity of cellular responses. To address this, Xu and Fleming et al. developed CellCap, a generative deep-learning model that decodes the perturbation effect on a particular cell state. CellCap extracts interpretable latent representations of perturbation response modules, identifying key cellular pathways activated under various conditions. This allows for a deeper understanding of cell-state-specific responses to genetic, chemical, or biological perturbations.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 4","pages":"101228"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12010446/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144062727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101210
Yasuhiro Iba, Aya Kubota, Yusuke Takeda, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Shin Ikegami, Jörg Mutterlose, Takahiro Harada, Tomonori Takeuchi, Kazuki Tainaka
{"title":"Nature visible only digitally.","authors":"Yasuhiro Iba, Aya Kubota, Yusuke Takeda, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Shin Ikegami, Jörg Mutterlose, Takahiro Harada, Tomonori Takeuchi, Kazuki Tainaka","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101210","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent progress in imaging technology has enabled paleontologists to visualize all fossils inside solid rocks. Consequently, we can now imagine the natural worlds hidden not only inside our research materials but also within the opaque solids of everyday life. Here, we introduce the unique visual-spatial worlds that emerge from inside rocks and the creativity this discovery fosters.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 4","pages":"101210"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12010443/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144044393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RePower: An LLM-driven autonomous platform for power system data-guided research.","authors":"Yu-Xiao Liu, Mengshuo Jia, Yong-Xin Zhang, Jianxiao Wang, Guannan He, Shao-Long Zhong, Zhi-Min Dang","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101211","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities across disciplines such as chemistry, mathematics, and medicine, yet their application in power system research remains limited, and most studies still focus on supporting specific tasks under human supervision. Here, we introduce Revive Power Systems (RePower), an autonomous LLM-driven research platform that uses a reflection-evolution strategy to independently conduct complex research in power systems. RePower assists researchers by controlling devices, acquiring data, designing methods, and evolving algorithms to address problems that are difficult to solve but easy to evaluate. Validated on three critical data-driven tasks in power systems-parameter prediction, power optimization, and state estimation-RePower outperformed traditional methods. Consistent performance improvements were observed across multiple tasks, with an average error reduction of 29.07%. For example, in the power optimization task, the error decreased from 0.00137 to 0.000825, a reduction of 39.78%. This framework facilitates autonomous discoveries, promoting innovation in power systems research.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 4","pages":"101211"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12010440/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2025-03-27eCollection Date: 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101230
Paul Trauttmansdorff, Kim M Hajek
{"title":"Erratum: Data shadows: When data become tangible, material, and fragile.","authors":"Paul Trauttmansdorff, Kim M Hajek","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101230","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101206.].</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 4","pages":"101230"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12010441/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144046948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101208
Melania Muñoz-García, Amber Hartman Scholz
{"title":"Navigating COP16's digital sequence information outcomes: What researchers need to do in practice.","authors":"Melania Muñoz-García, Amber Hartman Scholz","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The UN Convention on Biological Diversity adopted new rules for sharing benefits from publicly available genetic sequence data, also known as digital sequence information (DSI). In this Opinion, the authors describe the key elements researchers need to be aware of, address real-life questions, and explain the practical implications of these rules for research and development.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 3","pages":"101208"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11963070/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying extreme failure scenarios in transportation systems with graph learning.","authors":"Mingxue Guo, Tingting Zhao, Jianxi Gao, Xin Meng, Ziyou Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Statistical analysis of extreme events in complex engineering systems is essential for system design and reliability and resilience assessment. Due to the rarity of extreme events and the computational burden of system performance evaluation, estimating the probability of extreme failures is prohibitively expensive. Traditional methods, such as importance sampling, struggle with the high cost of deriving importance sampling densities for numerous components in large-scale systems. Here, we propose a graph learning approach, called importance sampling based on graph autoencoder (GAE-IS), to integrate a modified graph autoencoder model, termed a criticality assessor, with the cross-entropy-based importance sampling method. GAE-IS effectively decouples the criticality of components from their vulnerability to disastrous events in the workflow, demonstrating notable transferability and leading to significantly reduced computational costs of importance sampling in large-scale networks. The proposed methodology improves sampling efficiency by one to two orders of magnitude across several road networks and provides more accurate probability estimations.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 4","pages":"101209"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12010444/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143989254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101203
Kisan Thapa, Meric Kinali, Shichao Pei, Augustin Luna, Özgün Babur
{"title":"Strategies to include prior knowledge in omics analysis with deep neural networks.","authors":"Kisan Thapa, Meric Kinali, Shichao Pei, Augustin Luna, Özgün Babur","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101203","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High-throughput molecular profiling technologies have revolutionized molecular biology research in the past decades. One important use of molecular data is to make predictions of phenotypes and other features of the organisms using machine learning algorithms. Deep learning models have become increasingly popular for this task due to their ability to learn complex non-linear patterns. Applying deep learning to molecular profiles, however, is challenging due to the very high dimensionality of the data and relatively small sample sizes, causing models to overfit. A solution is to incorporate biological prior knowledge to guide the learning algorithm for processing the functionally related input together. This helps regularize the models and improve their generalizability and interpretability. Here, we describe three major strategies proposed to use prior knowledge in deep learning models to make predictions based on molecular profiles. We review the related deep learning architectures, including the major ideas in relatively new graph neural networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 3","pages":"101203"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11963003/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101206
Paul Trauttmansdorff, Kim M Hajek
{"title":"Data shadows: When data become tangible, material, and fragile.","authors":"Paul Trauttmansdorff, Kim M Hajek","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2025.101206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"6 3","pages":"101206"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11963112/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}