Rare diseases affect a growing number of individuals. One key problem for patients and their caregivers is the difficulty in reaching experts and associations competent on a particular disease. As a consequence, caregivers, often family members of the patient, learn much about the disease from their own experience. CaregiverMatcher is a proof of concept providing a smart solution to build a network of caregivers, linked by a matching mechanism based on graph neural networks. The caregivers and their experience with rare diseases are described by node features. Associations and care centers are invited to share their knowledge on the platform. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Guerranti, F., Mannino, M., Baccini, F., Bongini, P., Pancino, N., Visibelli, A., et al. (2021). CaregiverMatcher: Graph neural networks for connecting caregivers of rare disease patients. PROCEDIA COMPUTER SCIENCE, 192, 1696-1704 [10.1016/j.procs.2021.08.174].
CaregiverMatcher: Graph neural networks for connecting caregivers of rare disease patients
Guerranti, F.;Mannino, M.;Baccini, F.;Bongini, P.;Pancino, N.;Visibelli, A.;Marziali, S.
2021-01-01
Abstract
Rare diseases affect a growing number of individuals. One key problem for patients and their caregivers is the difficulty in reaching experts and associations competent on a particular disease. As a consequence, caregivers, often family members of the patient, learn much about the disease from their own experience. CaregiverMatcher is a proof of concept providing a smart solution to build a network of caregivers, linked by a matching mechanism based on graph neural networks. The caregivers and their experience with rare diseases are described by node features. Associations and care centers are invited to share their knowledge on the platform. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
https://hdl.handle.net/11365/1220735
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