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Michele D. Pierri MD PhD
@micheledpierri.bsky.social
👨‍⚕️Physician integrating medicine & tech 💻. Python 🐍 coder applying statistics & data science to healthcare 📊. Love literature & classical music 🎵.
Proust described the death of the grandmother with the precision of a case report, capturing symptoms, decline, and unspoken signs. When literature mirrors medicine, empathy becomes the diagnosis.
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#Proust #NarrativeMedicine #MedicalHumanities
The Death of the Grandmother in Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" - micheledpierri.com: statistics, data analysis and coding
A literary analysis of the grandmother's death in Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' as a pivotal moment of existential revelation, exploring medicine's limitations, symbolic imagery, and the narrator'...
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August 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
We tested ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini with 70 cardiology questions, evaluated by practicing cardiologists. Want to know the winner? Find out! Though none are quite ready for clinical practice yet. Full study: www.mdpi.com/2673-3846/6/...
#AI #Cardiology
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July 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Advanced 3D imaging is revolutionizing aortic root segmentation, enabling better valve sizing, reducing complications, and allowing for personalized treatment plans. The cardiac revolution is happening now—are you part of it?
#CardiacImaging #TAVR #CardiacSurgery #Cardiology
June 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
U-Net is a CNN architecture for medical image segmentation. It compresses and expands data like a “U” to detect organs, tumors, vessels, and more. Widely used in radiology & surgery planning. #UNet #AI #MedTech #DeepLearning #MedicalImaging
May 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Residual plots reveal key issues in linear regression: clustered points indicate non-linear relationships, cone-shaped patterns show heteroscedasticity, and points concentrated on one side suggest bias. #Statistics #DataScience
March 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Remember folks: in data science, as in life, sometimes less is more. Unless we're talking about pizza. Or computing power. Or... ok maybe that saying needs some dimensionality reduction too. #DataScience #ML
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Dimensionality Reduction Techniques
A comprehensive guide to dimensionality reduction techniques in machine learning, covering linear methods like PCA and non-linear approaches like t-SNE and UMAP. The article explores implementation st...
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March 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Sample size estimation be like: theoretically needed: 1000 patients; budget allows for 100 patients; PI says: 'We'll just increase alpha to 0.1'; statistician screaming... #Statistics #DataScience #healthcare
March 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Meta-analysis: When you combine 20 underpowered studies to create one slightly less underpowered conclusion. But hey, at least now it's peer-reviewed! 🤓
#Statistics #HealthInformatics
March 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Missing data in clinical trials is like a group project where half the team ghosted you, but you still need to submit something meaningful.👻 MCAR, MAR, MNAR... or as I call them: 'Gone', 'Gone with an excuse', and 'Gone suspicious' #Statistics #DataScience
March 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🤖 Ensemble models combine multiple simpler models to achieve better predictions, reducing bias & variance. Key types: bagging (like Random Forest) for robustness, boosting for complex patterns
February 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Rare side effect: occurs in 1 in 10,000 patients. Doctors: that's rare 🙂. Statisticians: that's an impressively large sample size 😮. Patients: WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT CAN HAPPEN 😱? #Statistics #Medicine
February 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🤖 Support Vector Machines are masters at finding optimal boundaries between data classes. Their strength with high-dimensional data and resilience against outliers make them particularly valuable for analyzing medical datasets! #Statistics #DataAnalysis
February 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I just made a donation to Wikipedia—it's such a vital resource!
February 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Curse of Dimensionality explained: as the number of features increases, distances between data points become less meaningful, and models struggle to generalize. Solution? Feature selection, dimensionality reduction, and other metrics (Mahalanobis, Cosine. #DataScience #MachineLearning
February 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🔮 Did you know the Poisson distribution can predict chaos? From heart rhythms in ERs to call center surges, this mathematical crystal ball turns randomness into insights. One parameter to rule them all! #DataScience #Statistics
January 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
⚖️ Predictive models in medicine reflect the biases in their data. Can we trust a system that might amplify healthcare inequalities?
January 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎲 Life is like Monte Carlo simulation: we keep generating random scenarios until we find the most probable outcome... but reality always has the final say! Here's what 1000 simulations look like 👇 #DataScience #Statistics
January 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
🔬 When doing multiple statistical tests, your Type I error risk adds up! That's where Bonferroni comes in: divide your α by the number of tests (α/n). Simple but powerful! #Statistics #DataScience
January 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
📖🌐I found this book in my library: before Google, there was the Internet Yellow Pages—a printed guide to the web. Efficient? Not really. Nostalgic? Absolutely. You search "pizza" and get 1 billion results these days. Back then? Just a single page saying: "Try this link." 🍕😂 #InternetHistory #90sTech
December 29, 2024 at 10:14 AM
🤯 Mind-bending medical math: A 95% accurate test can still mean only an 8.7% chance of disease! Welcome to Bayes' theorem, where prior probabilities flip our intuition upside down. #Statistics #DataScience #Healthcare
December 22, 2024 at 9:30 PM
🎨 Visualize your missing data! Use seaborn heatmaps or missingno matrices to spot patterns. A picture is worth a thousand NaNs. #DataScience #Statistics #Python
December 15, 2024 at 8:45 AM
🎭 Donizetti's "Elixir of Love" (1832) mocks medical charlatans through Dulcamara's character. His satirical portrayal of quack doctors still resonates today. 🎵 #Opera #Healthcare
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Udite, udite rustici - micheledpierri.com
Explore Donizetti's comic opera "The Elixir of Love" through the aria "Udite, udite rustici". Discover how the charlatan Dulcamara embodies 18th and 19th-century medical quackery, offering a satirical...
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December 12, 2024 at 7:28 AM