The Cava laboratory is a research group interested in improving the interpretability and fairness of predictive models deployed in healthcare settings. We create and study algorithms that can embed these notions when working with health data.

The lab is part of the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.

Join the Team! If you’re looking to do research in the areas of machine learning, interpretability, fairness, and health informatics, see the opportunities here.

Recent Papers

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled ECG to Detect Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
Sunil J. Ghelani, Nikhil Thatte, William La Cava, John K. Triedman, Joshua Mayourian (2025)
Pediatric Cardiology
Reliability of Large Language Model Knowledge Across Brand and Generic Cancer Drug Names
Jack Gallifant, Shan Chen, Sandeep K. Jain, Pedro Moreira, Umit Topaloglu, Hugo J.W.L. Aerts, Jeremy L. Warner, William G. La Cava, Danielle S. Bitterman (2025)
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
Intersectional and Marginal Debiasing in Prediction Models for Emergency Admissions
Elle Lett, Shakiba Shahbandegan, Yuval Barak-Corren, Andrew M. Fine, William G. La Cava (2025)
JAMA Network Open

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