A Variational Recurrent Neural Network with Stochastic Attention for Imputation of Irregularly Sampled ICU Time Series under Non-Random Missingness

cirpublications.com-SWCP-1790880687-r535171166 1790880687 Clinical Intelligence Research Press info@cirpublications.com Clinical Intelligence Research Press Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Systems J. Artif. Intell. Healthc. Syst. 3149-8981 2026 5 1 A Variational Recurrent Neural Network with Stochastic Attention for Imputation of Irregularly Sampled ICU Time Series under Non-Random Missingness Minh Tran Duc Pham 2026 10.68159/r535171166 https://cirpublications.com/pub/journal/1/article/r535171166 Che Z, Purushotham S, Cho K, Sontag D, Liu Y. Recurrent neural networks for multivariate time series with missing values. Sci Rep. 2018;8(1):6085. Cao W, Wang D, Li J, Zhou H, Li L, Li Y. BRITS: bidirectional recurrent imputation for time series. Adv Neural Inf Process Syst. 2018;31:6776-86. Yoon J, Jordon J, van der Schaar M. GAIN: missing data imputation using generative adversarial nets. 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