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Clinical notes are an efficient way to record patient information but are notoriously hard to decipher for non-experts. Automatically simplifying medical text can empower patients with valuable information about their health, while saving…

The electronic health record (EHR) contains a large amount of multi-dimensional and unstructured clinical data of significant operational and research value. Distinguished from previous studies, our approach embraces a double-annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Bonggun Shin , Falgun H. Chokshi , Timothy Lee , Jinho D. Choi

Embeddings of medical concepts such as medication, procedure and diagnosis codes in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are central to healthcare analytics. Previous work on medical concept embedding takes medical concepts and EMRs as words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xiangrui Cai , Jinyang Gao , Kee Yuan Ngiam , Beng Chin Ooi , Ying Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

In this paper we study the problem of predicting clinical diagnoses from textual Electronic Health Records (EHR) data. We show the importance of this problem in medical community and present comprehensive historical review of the problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Pavel Blinov , Manvel Avetisian , Vladimir Kokh , Dmitry Umerenkov , Alexander Tuzhilin

Topic modeling is a powerful technique to discover hidden topics and patterns within a collection of documents without prior knowledge. Traditional topic modeling and clustering-based techniques encounter challenges in capturing contextual…

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Traditional topic models are effective at uncovering latent themes in large text collections. However, due to their reliance on bag-of-words representations, they struggle to capture semantically abstract features. While some neural…

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Electronic Health Records (EHR) contain valuable clinical information for predicting patient outcomes and guiding healthcare decisions. However, effectively modeling Electronic Health Records (EHRs) requires addressing data heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Junhan Yu , Zhunyi Feng , Junwei Lu , Tianxi Cai , Doudou Zhou

Clinical outcome prediction based on the Electronic Health Record (EHR) plays a crucial role in improving the quality of healthcare. Conventional deep sequential models fail to capture the rich temporal patterns encoded in the longand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Luchen Liu , Haoran Li , Zhiting Hu , Haoran Shi , Zichang Wang , Jian Tang , Ming Zhang

Automatic text classification (TC) research can be used for real-world problems such as the classification of in-patient discharge summaries and medical text reports, which is beneficial to make medical documents more understandable to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ying Shen , Qiang Zhang , Jin Zhang , Jiyue Huang , Yuming Lu , Kai Lei

Topic models are a popular tool for clustering and analyzing textual data. They allow texts to be classified on the basis of their affiliation to the previously calculated topics. Despite their widespread use in research and application, an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Johannes Hirth , Tom Hanika

This study proposes a Transformer-based longitudinal modeling method to address challenges in clinical risk classification with heterogeneous Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, including irregular temporal patterns, large modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Anzhuo Xie , Wei-Chen Chang

Although the goal of achieving semantic interoperability of electronic health records (EHRs) is pursued by many researchers, it has not been accomplished yet. In this paper, we present a proposal that smoothes out the way toward the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Idoia Berges , Jesús Bermúdez , Arantza Illarramendi

Clinical notes contain an extensive record of a patient's health status, such as smoking status or the presence of heart conditions. However, this detail is not replicated within the structured data of electronic health systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Andriy Mulyar , Elliot Schumacher , Masoud Rouhizadeh , Mark Dredze

Widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has fueled the development of using machine learning to build prediction models for various clinical outcomes. This process is often constrained by having a relatively small number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ethan Steinberg , Ken Jung , Jason A. Fries , Conor K. Corbin , Stephen R. Pfohl , Nigam H. Shah

Deep learning-based predictive models, leveraging Electronic Health Records (EHR), are receiving increasing attention in healthcare. An effective representation of a patient's EHR should hierarchically encompass both the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jiayuan Chen , Changchang Yin , Yuanlong Wang , Ping Zhang

Inferring topics from the overwhelming amount of short texts becomes a critical but challenging task for many content analysis tasks, such as content charactering, user interest profiling, and emerging topic detecting. Existing methods such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jipeng Qiang , Ping Chen , Tong Wang , Xindong Wu

The growing complexity of legal cases has lead to an increasing interest in legal information retrieval systems that can effectively satisfy user-specific information needs. However, such downstream systems typically require documents to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Dennis Aumiller , Satya Almasian , Sebastian Lackner , Michael Gertz

Effective representation learning of electronic health records is a challenging task and is becoming more important as the availability of such data is becoming pervasive. The data contained in these records are irregular and contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sajad Darabi , Mohammad Kachuee , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

The healthcare sector has experienced a rapid accumulation of digital data recently, especially in the form of electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs constitute a precious resource that IS researchers could utilize for clinical applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Thiti Suttaket , L Vivek Harsha Vardhan , Stanley Kok

Topic models are a useful analysis tool to uncover the underlying themes within document collections. The dominant approach is to use probabilistic topic models that posit a generative story, but in this paper we propose an alternative way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Suzanna Sia , Ayush Dalmia , Sabrina J. Mielke