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ISSN: 3005-3854 (Online)
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The trustworthiness of medical AI systems is often undermined by their potential to violate established clinical principles, a critical issue in self-supervised learning (SSL) frameworks where explicit domain knowledge is typically disregarded. To address this trust deficit, we propose the Logic-Constrained Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (LC-JEPA). LC-JEPA is a novel framework that bridges neural and symbolic learning by seamlessly integrating predefined medical rules into the SSL process via differentiable logic programming. It utilizes a dedicated Differentiable Constraint Satisfaction Layer (D-CSL) to formally encode clinical constraints, enabling end-to-end joint optimization of both predictive accuracy and logical consistency. We introduce the Constraint Satisfaction Rate (CSR) as a specialized metric to quantify adherence to medical knowledge. Comprehensive evaluation on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database demonstrates that LC-JEPA achieves high accuracy (97.5%) while significantly improving domain adherence (CSR of 93.9%), substantially outperforming unconstrained baselines (e.g., Vanilla JEPA’s 86.4% CSR). Extensive sensitivity analysis confirms that the logic constraint is essential: removing it causes accuracy to drop from 97.5% to 32.1%, while the specific constraint weight λ ∈ [0.1,2.0] has minimal impact on performance. By successfully uniting representation learning with symbolic reasoning, LC-JEPA provides a robust and generalizable solution for building safer, more reliable, and clinically deployable trustworthy AI systems for ECG arrhythmia analysis.
Accurate and interpretable blood glucose prediction is critical for optimizing insulin therapy and preventing adverse events in type 1 diabetes (T1D) management. However, existing deep learning models often lack transparency, limiting their clinical adoption. We introduce a novel neural-symbolic framework that integrates Fourier neural operators (FNOs) with clinical rules to predict 30-minute-ahead blood glucose levels with high accuracy and interpretability. FNOs capture periodic glucose patterns, such as circadian rhythms and meal responses, while differentiable clinical rules encode medical knowledge, providing actionable insights like hypoglycemia risk alerts. Evaluated on the OhioT1DM dataset, our model achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of 10.2 mg/dL, meeting ISO 15197:2013 standards, and 99.8% Clarke Error Grid A+B coverage, ensuring clinical safety. Leave-one-subject-out cross-validation across 12 subjects demonstrates robust generalization (MAE = 8.85 ± 1.33 mg/dL), addressing concerns about sample size limitations. The model exhibits strong robustness to continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) measurement noise (maintaining ISO compliance at 10% noise) and missing data (5.4% performance degradation at 40% data loss). By generating interpretable outputs, such as trend analyses and risk warnings, our framework supports clinical decision-making, enhances patient trust, and facilitates personalized diabetes care. This work advances medical informatics by combining data-driven and knowledge-driven methods, offering a scalable solution for real-time glucose monitoring and insulin dosing in T1D.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of global health issues which requires swift and accurate risk assessment techniques. Present-day risk calculators together with machine learning (ML) models have performed inadequately when it comes to reliability and comprehension of results. We produced a complex deep learning (DL) framework which builds Extended Long Short-Term Memory networks using an exponential gating mechanism (xLSTMeg). The new architecture design controls feature variations while extracting long-term dependencies through increased performance. A Random Forest Regression (RFR) evaluated the most important features while focusing on the top influential biomarkers, which eliminates redundant features. Performance is evaluated using cross-validation protocol and scientifically validated using DL explainability paradigm. The exponential gating mechanism achieved superior performance in CVD risk stratification by at least 6% compared to conventional Long Short-Term Memory (cLSTM) and other ML models. Analysis showed that RFR allows the system to benefits most from the 64% most significant features. The system yielded better results by employing DL algorithms which SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis proved essential features for risk prediction. Our study concludes that our proposed xLSTMeg architecture with optimized features for CVD risk assessment achieves better robustness and enhanced accuracy.
Glucose profoundly influences cellular transcriptomes, but whether these changes are primarily driven by transcription remains unclear. Traditional bulk RNA sequencing, which interrogates total mRNA from whole cells, obscures distinct dynamics of nuclear and cytoplasmic transcriptomes. Nuclear RNA levels primarily reflect transcriptional activity but are also influenced by nuclear export, whereas cytoplasmic RNA abundances result from transcription, nuclear export, RNA stability (i.e., RNA half-life), and active RNA degradation mechanisms. In this study, we systematically investigate glucose-induced transcriptomic responses in a subcellular location-and cell type-specific manner using three cell lines: FHC (normal colonic epithelial cells), MCF10A (normal breast epithelial cells), and MCF7 (metastatic breast cancer cells). Our findings reveal that, although nuclear and cytoplasmic mRNA levels show strong global correlations, glucose-induced changes in mRNA abundance exhibit minimal concordance between the nucleus and cytoplasm. Additionally, glucose-induced changes in exon inclusion levels often diverge between the nucleus and cytoplasm, underscoring the importance of post-transcriptional processes in shaping the cytoplasmic transcriptome response to glucose level changes. Glucose-induced differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and differentially spliced exons (ΔPSI) are enriched in distinct pathways exhibiting unique enrichment patterns depending on the subcellular location and cell line. These findings underscore the complexity of glucose-induced transcriptomic regulation, demonstrating that transcription alone is insufficient to explain the observed dynamics.