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Objective: To enable privacy-preserving learning of high quality generative and discriminative machine learning models from distributed electronic health records. Methods and Results: We describe general and scalable strategy to build…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Marina Blanton , Ah Reum Kang , Subhadeep Karan , Jaroslaw Zola

Electronic health records (EHRs) and other real-world clinical data are essential for clinical research, medical artificial intelligence, and life science, but their sharing is severely limited by privacy, governance, and interoperability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Maolin Wang , Beining Bao , Gan Yuan , Hongyu Chen , Bingkun Zhao , Baoshuo Kan , Jiming Xu , Qi Shi , Yinggong Zhao , Yao Wang , Wei Ying Ma , Jun Yan

Robust and reliable anonymization of chest radiographs constitutes an essential step before publishing large datasets of such for research purposes. The conventional anonymization process is carried out by obscuring personal information in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Kai Packhäuser , Sebastian Gündel , Florian Thamm , Felix Denzinger , Andreas Maier

Medical health records and clinical summaries contain a vast amount of important information in textual form that can help advancing research on treatments, drugs and public health. However, the majority of these information is not shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Nikola Milosevic , Gangamma Kalappa , Hesam Dadafarin , Mahmoud Azimaee , Goran Nenadic

In medical organizations large amount of personal data are collected and analyzed by the data miner or researcher, for further perusal. However, the data collected may contain sensitive information such as specific disease of a patient and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Pawan R Bhaladhare , Devesh Jinwala

The objective of this study is to address the critical issue of de-identification of clinical reports in order to allow access to data for research purposes, while ensuring patient privacy. The study highlights the difficulties faced in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xavier Tannier , Perceval Wajsbürt , Alice Calliger , Basile Dura , Alexandre Mouchet , Martin Hilka , Romain Bey

De-identification is the task of detecting protected health information (PHI) in medical text. It is a critical step in sanitizing electronic health records (EHRs) to be shared for research. Automatic de-identification classifierscan…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Max Friedrich , Arne Köhn , Gregor Wiedemann , Chris Biemann

Background: More than half (57%) of pharma clinical research spend is in support of clinical trials. One reason is that Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and HIPAA privacy rules often limit how broadly patient information can be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-03 Andrew J McMurry , Richen Zhang , Alex Foxman , Lawrence Reiter , Ronny Schnel , DeLeys Brandman

Clinical free-text data offers immense potential to improve population health research such as richer phenotyping, symptom tracking, and contextual understanding of patient care. However, these data present significant privacy risks due to…

With the rapid surge in the prevalence of Large Language Models (LLMs), individuals are increasingly turning to conversational AI for initial insights across various domains, including health-related inquiries such as disease diagnosis.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Aditya Malik , Nalini Ratha , Bharat Yalavarthi , Tilak Sharma , Arjun Kaushik , Charanjit Jutla

In the present medical services, the board, clinical well-being records are as electronic clinical record (EHR/EMR) frameworks. These frameworks store patients' clinical histories in a computerized design. Notwithstanding, a patient's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Shruthi K , Poornima A. S

Mobile healthcare system integrating wearable sensing and wireless communication technologies continuously monitors the users' health status. However, the mHealth system raises a severe privacy concern as the data it collects are private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Mohammad Hadian , Xiaohui Liang , Thamer Altuwaiyan , Mohamed M E A Mahmoud

The advancement of biomedical research heavily relies on access to large amounts of medical data. In the case of histopathology, Whole Slide Images (WSI) and clinicopathological information are valuable for developing Artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Neel Kanwal , Emiel A. M. Janssen , Kjersti Engan

The paper presents a systematic review of state-of-the-art approaches to identify patient cohorts using electronic health records. It gives a comprehensive overview of the most commonly de-tected phenotypes and its underlying data sets.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-25 Norman Hiob , Stefan Lessmann

Background: Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are a category of health information technologies that can assist clinicians to choose optimal treatments. These support systems are based on clinical trials and expert knowledge;…

The secondary use of healthcare data is vital for research and clinical innovation, but it raises concerns about patient privacy. This study investigates how to balance privacy preservation and data utility in healthcare data sharing,…

Applications · Statistics 2025-08-27 Yusi Wei , Hande Y. Benson , Muge Capan

Foundation models trained on large-scale de-identified electronic health records (EHRs) hold promise for clinical applications. However, their capacity to memorize patient information raises important privacy concerns. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sana Tonekaboni , Lena Stempfle , Adibvafa Fallahpour , Walter Gerych , Marzyeh Ghassemi

The digitization of the medical data has been a sensitive topic. In modern times laws such as the HIPAA provide some guidelines for electronic transactions in medical data to prevent attacks and fraudulent usage of private information. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Rajesh Sharma , Deepak Subramanian , Satish N. Srirama

Group based anonymization is the most widely studied approach for privacy preserving data publishing. This includes k-anonymity, l-diversity, and t-closeness, to name a few. The goal of this paper is to raise a fundamental issue on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Philip S. Yu

Cross-institutional healthcare predictive modeling can accelerate research and facilitate quality improvement initiatives, and thus is important for national healthcare delivery priorities. For example, a model that predicts risk of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Tsung-Ting Kuo , Lucila Ohno-Machado