RESEARCH

Real science behind the claims

One published paper, four in submission, and an externally evaluated model. Every claim on this site traces to a documented evaluation with its dataset and label type stated. We don't do press releases — we do papers.

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1 + 4
Published + In Submission
87.8M
Training Pairs (Silver Labels)
0.703
AUC, External Gold Labels (TREC 2021)
+49%
vs. BM25 Keyword Baseline

Publications

Paper 01Published

Engineering Truthiness: A Validation Framework for Silver-Label Evaluation in Machine Learning

Dhunga D.·Zenodo 2026

Introduces a systematic framework for validating silver labels used in machine learning training pipelines. Demonstrates that instrument validation techniques from psychometrics can detect label noise and quantify measurement error in automatically generated training data.

ML EvaluationSilver LabelsPsychometrics
Paper 02In Submission

When Explanations Disagree: A Case for Multi-Method Explainability in Clinical AI

Dhunga D.·Under Review 2026

Examines how different explainability methods (SHAP, LIME, attention weights, integrated gradients) produce divergent explanations for the same clinical predictions. Argues that multi-method agreement scoring provides more trustworthy explanations than any single method.

XAIClinical AISHAPLIME
Paper 03In Submission

Silver Labels at Scale: Instrument Validation Without Gold Standards in Clinical Trial Matching

Dhunga D.·Under Review 2026

Proposes methods for validating silver-label quality in clinical trial matching when gold-standard expert labels are scarce. Applies factor analysis and internal consistency metrics to 87.8 million patient-trial pairs.

Label QualityFactor Analysis87.8M Pairs
Paper 04In Submission

Where Clinical Trial Matching Breaks: Boolean Logic as the Primary Failure Mode

Dhunga D.·Under Review 2026

Analyzes failure modes in neural clinical trial matching systems. Finds that boolean eligibility criteria (age ranges, lab value thresholds, binary diagnoses) account for the majority of ranking errors, and proposes hybrid architectures that combine neural ranking with rule-based constraint checking.

Failure AnalysisHybrid ArchitectureBoolean Logic
Paper 05In Submission

MatchBERT: A Cross-Encoder Architecture for Clinical Trial Patient Matching at Scale

Dhunga D.·Under Review 2026

Presents MatchBERT, a fine-tuned cross-encoder for clinical trial eligibility scoring. Evaluated against TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track gold labels, achieving NDCG@10 of 0.900 on internal silver-label validation and AUC 0.703 on the external gold-label test set — a 49% improvement over the BM25 baseline.

MatchBERTTREC 2021Cross-Encoder

MODEL CARD

MatchVox Engine

A domain-driven deep learning model for clinical trial eligibility scoring, built on a model- and platform-agnostic retrieve → rank → explain pipeline. Trained on 87.8M patient-trial pairs with validated silver labels.

0.703

AUC, external gold labels

87.8M

Training pairs

3 sec

Per patient

520K+

Trials indexed

matchvox.ai/research

Our methodology

External validation

Evaluated against TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track gold-standard expert labels. Not self-reported metrics on hand-picked benchmarks.

AUC 0.703 on external test set

Multi-method explainability

We use multiple independent explanation methods. When methods disagree, clinicians are told — not shown cherry-picked explanations.

Multiple independent methods compared

Hybrid architecture

Neural ranking for semantic understanding + rule-based constraints for boolean eligibility criteria. Best of both worlds.

5,418× faster than exhaustive pairwise scoring

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