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Evidence-based critical appraisals of the latest medical research, systematically evaluated using Oxford CEBM methodology.
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PloS one
Multi-view graph-regularized deep metric subspace clustering network
Multi-view subspace clustering has progressed significantly by using deep neural networks to handle nonlinear data representations. A recent advancement, the Multi-view Self-Expressive Subspace Clustering (MSESC) network, achieves markedly higher computational efficiency by substituting the traditional self-expression layer with a deep metric learning approach. Nevertheless, MSESC still suffers from two notable limitations: it fails to adequately capture the high-order geometric structures inherent in multi-view data, and it lacks effective guidance from the underlying clustering distribution. To overcome these shortcomings, we propose a novel framework termed Multi-View Graph Regularized Deep Metric Subspace Clustering (MVGR-DMSC). The proposed method introduces two key components into MSESC to enhance the discriminability of representations. First, a dual-order graph regularization module is devised to maintain both first-order and second-order manifold structures, thereby allowing the model to capture more complex local geometric relationships. Second, an adaptive view-weighted deep clustering module is incorporated, which employs the Kullback-Leibler divergence to guide representation learning while dynamically adjusting the contributions of different views. Through evaluations on five benchmark datasets, we show that MVGR-DMSC consistently yields better results than several state-of-the-art approaches, including the direct baseline MSESC, in both accuracy and robustness.
26 July 2026
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Rethinking healthcare data interoperability in the age of large language models
Electronic health records contain extensive real-world clinical data, but their effective use is hindered by data heterogeneity and interoperability challenges. Traditional post hoc standardization is costly and labor-intensive and reduces data granularity. Large language models enable analysis of unstructured data without full harmonization but lack precision for some tasks. We propose a hybrid strategy that combines large-language-model-based analysis of legacy data with prospectively standardized data, offering a scalable alternative that challenges the need for retrospective data harmonization and improves interoperability.
13 June 2026
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