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

A Closer Look at Mortality Risk Prediction from Electrocardiograms
Platon Lukyanenko, Joshua Mayourian, Mingxuan Liu, John K. Triedman, Sunil J. Ghelani, William G. La Cava (2025)
Preprint
Investigation of a Novel Noninvasive Risk Analytics Algorithm With Laboratory Central Venous Oxygen Saturation Measurements in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients
Sarah A. Teele, Avihu Z. Gazit, Craig Futterman, William G. La Cava, David S. Cooper, Steven M. Schwartz, Joshua W. Salvin (2025)
Critical Care Explorations
Intersectional consequences for marginal fairness in prediction models of emergency admissions
Elle Lett, Shakiba Shahbandegan, Yuval Barak-Corren, Andrew Fine, William G La Cava (2024)
Preprint

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