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Named Entity Recognition (NER) has been mostly studied in the context of written text. Specifically, NER is an important step in de-identification (de-ID) of medical records, many of which are recorded conversations between a patient and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ido Cohn , Itay Laish , Genady Beryozkin , Gang Li , Izhak Shafran , Idan Szpektor , Tzvika Hartman , Avinatan Hassidim , Yossi Matias

Leveraging knowledge from electronic health records (EHRs) to predict a patient's condition is essential to the effective delivery of appropriate care. Clinical notes of patient EHRs contain valuable information from healthcare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Nayeon Kim , Yinhua Piao , Sun Kim

Access to medical imaging and associated text data has the potential to drive major advances in healthcare research and patient outcomes. However, the presence of Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-01 Kyle Naddeo , Nikolas Koutsoubis , Rahul Krish , Ghulam Rasool , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Tony OSullivan , Raj Krish

Use of medical data, also known as electronic health records, in research helps develop and advance medical science. However, protecting patient confidentiality and identity while using medical data for analysis is crucial. Medical data can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Vithya Yogarajan , Michael Mayo , Bernhard Pfahringer

Healthcare is becoming a more and more important research topic recently. With the growing data in the healthcare domain, it offers a great opportunity for deep learning to improve the quality of medical service. However, the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Bo Yang , Lijun Wu

Privacy protection of medical image data is challenging. Even if metadata is removed, brain scans are vulnerable to attacks that match renderings of the face to facial image databases. Solutions have been developed to de-identify diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Lennart Alexander Van der Goten , Tobias Hepp , Zeynep Akata , Kevin Smith

Patient representation learning refers to learning a dense mathematical representation of a patient that encodes meaningful information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs). This is generally performed using advanced deep learning methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yuqi Si , Jingcheng Du , Zhao Li , Xiaoqian Jiang , Timothy Miller , Fei Wang , W. Jim Zheng , Kirk Roberts

The de-identification of private information in medical data is a crucial process to mitigate the risk of confidentiality breaches, particularly when patient personal details are not adequately removed before the release of medical records.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Guanchen Wu , Linzhi Zheng , Han Xie , Zhen Xiang , Jiaying Lu , Darren Liu , Delgersuren Bold , Bo Li , Xiao Hu , Carl Yang

This work investigates multiple approaches to Named Entity Recognition (NER) for text in Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. In particular, we look into the application of (i) rule-based, (ii) deep learning and (iii) transfer learning…

Electronic Health Records (EHR) have revolutionized healthcare by digitizing patient data, improving accessibility, and streamlining clinical workflows. However, extracting meaningful insights from these complex and multimodal datasets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Naama Kashani , Mira Cohen , Uri Shaham

The large amount of time clinicians spend sifting through patient notes and documenting in electronic health records (EHRs) is a leading cause of clinician burnout. By proactively and dynamically retrieving relevant notes during the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Sharon Jiang , Shannon Shen , Monica Agrawal , Barbara Lam , Nicholas Kurtzman , Steven Horng , David Karger , David Sontag

Background: Electronic health record (EHR) notes contain abundant medical jargon that can be difficult for patients to comprehend. One way to help patients is to reduce information overload and help them focus on medical terms that matter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jinying Chen , Hong Yu

Rights provisioned within data protection regulations, permit patients to request that knowledge about their information be eliminated by data holders. With the advent of AI learned on data, one can imagine that such rights can extent to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Ruolin Su , Xiao Liu , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) contain clinical narrative text that is of great potential value to medical researchers. However, this information is mixed with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that presents risks to patient and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Leibo Liu , Oscar Perez-Concha , Anthony Nguyen , Vicki Bennett , Louisa Jorm

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

Electronic health records (EHRs) form an invaluable resource for training clinical decision support systems. To leverage the potential of such systems in high-risk applications, we need large, structured tabular datasets on which we can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Paloma Rabaey , Adrick Tench , Stefan Heytens , Thomas Demeester

With the rise of cameras and smart sensors, humanity generates an exponential amount of data. This valuable information, including underrepresented cases like AI in medical settings, can fuel new deep-learning tools. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zikui Cai , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Terrence Chen , M. Salman Asif , Ziyan Wu

Objectives; The accumulation and usefulness of clinical data have increased with IT development. While using clinical data that needs to be identifiable to obtain meaningful information, it is essential to ensure that data is de-identified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Jipmin Jung , Phillip Park , Jaedong Lee , Hyein Lee , Geonkook Lee , Hyosoung Cha

This paper takes on the problem of automatically identifying clinically-relevant patterns in medical datasets without compromising patient privacy. To achieve this goal, we treat datasets as a black box for both internal and external users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Nafees Qamar , Yilong Yang , Andras Nadas , Zhiming Liu , Janos Sztipanovits

Improving the quality of end-of-life care for hospitalized patients is a priority for healthcare organizations. Studies have shown that physicians tend to over-estimate prognoses, which in combination with treatment inertia results in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Anand Avati , Kenneth Jung , Stephanie Harman , Lance Downing , Andrew Ng , Nigam H. Shah