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Diagnosis of a clinical condition is a challenging task, which often requires significant medical investigation. Previous work related to diagnostic inferencing problems mostly consider multivariate observational data (e.g. physiological…

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. The progression and severity of MS varies by individual, but it is generally a disabling disease. Although medications have been developed to…

Applications · Statistics 2013-03-06 Joyce C. Ho , Joydeep Ghosh , KP Unnikrishnan

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), while integral to modern healthcare, present challenges for clinical reasoning and diagnosis due to their complexity and information redundancy. To address this, we proposed medIKAL (Integrating Knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mingyi Jia , Junwen Duan , Yan Song , Jianxin Wang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and routine documentation practices play a vital role in patients' daily care, providing a holistic record of health, diagnoses, and treatment. However, complex and verbose EHR narratives overload healthcare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yanjun Gao , Ruizhe Li , Emma Croxford , John Caskey , Brian W Patterson , Matthew Churpek , Timothy Miller , Dmitriy Dligach , Majid Afshar

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 shift to electronic medical records (EMRs) has engendered research into machine learning and natural language technologies to analyze patient records, and to predict from these clinical outcomes of interest. Two observations motivate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sarthak Jain , Ramin Mohammadi , Byron C. Wallace

The advent of the Internet era has led to an explosive growth in the Electronic Health Records (EHR) in the past decades. The EHR data can be regarded as a collection of clinical events, including laboratory results, medication records,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Zichang Wang , Haoran Li , Luchen Liu , Haoxian Wu , Ming Zhang

Information in electronic health records (EHR), such as clinical narratives, examination reports, lab measurements, demographics, and other patient encounter entries, can be transformed into appropriate data representations that can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Wei-Hung Weng , Peter Szolovits

Medical knowledge graphs (KGs) constructed from Electronic Medical Records (EMR) contain abundant information about patients and medical entities. The utilization of KG embedding models on these data has proven to be efficient for different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Aynur Guluzade , Endri Kacupaj , Maria Maleshkova

Background: Clinical guidelines and recommendations are the driving wheels of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) paradigm, but these are available primarily as unstructured text and are generally highly heterogeneous in nature. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Ravi P Garg , Kalpana Raja , Siddhartha R Jonnalagadda

Electronic medical records (EMR) contain longitudinal information about patients that can be used to analyze outcomes. Typically, studies on EMR data have worked with established variables that have already been acknowledged to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Prithwish Chakraborty , Vishrawas Gopalakrishnan , Sharon M. H. Alford , Faisal Farooq

The integration of multimodal Electronic Health Records (EHR) data has significantly improved clinical predictive capabilities. Leveraging clinical notes and multivariate time-series EHR, existing models often lack the medical context…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yinghao Zhu , Changyu Ren , Shiyun Xie , Shukai Liu , Hangyuan Ji , Zixiang Wang , Tao Sun , Long He , Zhoujun Li , Xi Zhu , Chengwei Pan

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) enable deep learning for clinical predictions, but the optimal method for representing patient data remains unclear due to inconsistent evaluation practices. We present the first systematic benchmark to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tianyi Chen , Mingcheng Zhu , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu

The introduction of electronic personal health records (EHR) enables nationwide information exchange and curation among different health care systems. However, the current EHR systems do not provide transparent means for diagnosis support,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Dragi Kimovski , Sasko Ristov , Radu Prodan

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are critical, highly sensitive private information in healthcare, and need to be frequently shared among peers. Blockchain provides a shared, immutable and transparent history of all the transactions to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Alevtina Dubovitskaya , Zhigang Xu , Samuel Ryu , Michael Schumacher , Fusheng Wang

The rapid growth of electronic health record (EHR) datasets opens up promising opportunities to understand human diseases in a systematic way. However, effective extraction of clinical knowledge from the EHR data has been hindered by its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yuesong Zou , Ahmad Pesaranghader , Aman Verma , David Buckeridge , Yue Li

In electronic health record (EHR) mining, learning high-quality representations of medical concepts (e.g., standardized diagnosis, medication, and procedure codes) is fundamental for downstream clinical prediction. However, ro bust concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi , Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam , Chen Chen , Dongjie Wang , Zijun Yao

Objective: To combine medical knowledge and medical data to interpretably predict the risk of disease. Methods: We formulated the disease prediction task as a random walk along a knowledge graph (KG). Specifically, we build a KG to record…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Zhoujian Sun , Wei Dong , Jinlong Shi , Zhengxing Huang

With the arrival of the big data era, more and more data are becoming readily available in various real-world applications and those data are usually highly heterogeneous. Taking computational medicine as an example, we have both Electronic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Xi Sheryl Zhang , Jingyuan Chou , Fei Wang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are pivotal in clinical practices, yet their retrieval remains a challenge mainly due to semantic gap issues. Recent advancements in dense retrieval offer promising solutions but existing models, both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zhengyun Zhao , Huaiyuan Ying , Yue Zhong , Sheng Yu