Wouter van Amsterdam, MD, PhD

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Bio

Wouter van Amsterdam is an assistant professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht, working on methods and applications of machine learning and causal inference for health care.

Master students with a background in statistics or machine learning who want to work with me are welcome to contact me. Students enrolled at Utrecht University or UMC Utrecht can find open master projects on konjoin

Education

University Medical Center Utrecht / Utrecht University

2010 | BSc. Physics
2017 | M.D.
2021 | MSc. Epidemiology (med. statistics track)
2022 | PhD. machine learning for healthcare | co-advised by Rajesh Ranganath from NYU

Experience

UMC Utrecht| Assistant Professor | 2023 - now
Babylon Health | Senior Research Scientist | 2021 - 2023

CV (pdf)

Selected papers

When accurate prediction models yield harmful self-fulfilling prophecies (arXiv:2312.01210).
van Amsterdam, W. A. C., van Geloven, N., Krijthe, J. H., Ranganath, R., & Ciná, G. (2024). ML4H 2023 findings-track
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Individual treatment effect estimation in the presence of unobserved confounding using proxies: A cohort study in stage III non-small cell lung cancer.  van Amsterdam, W. A. C., Verhoeff, J. J. C., Harlianto, N. I., Bartholomeus, G. A., Puli, A. M., de Jong, P. A., Leiner, T., van Lindert, A. S. R., Eijkemans, M. J. C., & Ranganath, R. (2022). Scientific Reports
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Conditional average treatment effect estimation with marginally constrained models.
van Amsterdam, W. A. C., & Ranganath, R. (2023). Journal of Causal Inference
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Decision making in cancer: Causal questions require causal answers.
van Amsterdam, W. A. C., de Jong, P. A., Suijkerbuijk, K. P. M., Verhoeff, J. J. C., Leiner, T., & Ranganath, R. (2022). ArXiv pre-print
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Eliminating biasing signals in lung cancer images for prognosis predictions with deep learning.
van Amsterdam, W. A. C., Verhoeff, J. J. C., de Jong, P. A., Leiner, T., & Eijkemans, M. J. C. (2019). Npj Digital Medicine
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More papers at google scholar

Talks

Teaching

Posts

Finding the functional form for multiple linear regression
A frequent question that comes up when modeling continuous outcomes with multiple linear regression is what the correct functional form for the relationship between the…
Wouter van Amsterdam
Aug 16, 2019

Partial residual plots with multiply imputed data
In an earlier blog post I show how to plot the dependence of a response variable on covariate, both conditional on other covariates with a partial residual plot In this post…
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The difference between intervention and counterfactuals
Sometimes there is confusion about the difference between counterfactual predictions and interventional predictions. According to the ladder of causation introduced by Pearl…
Wouter van Amsterdam
Jul 25, 2021
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wamster3 at umcutrecht dot nl