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Deep phenotyping is the detailed description of patient signs and symptoms using concepts from an ontology. The deep phenotyping of the numerous physician notes in electronic health records requires high throughput methods. Over the past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Syed I. Munzir , Daniel B. Hier , Michael D. Carrithers

The past decade has seen an explosion in the amount of digital information stored in electronic health records (EHR). While primarily designed for archiving patient clinical information and administrative healthcare tasks, many researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Benjamin Shickel , Patrick Tighe , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

The extraction of relevant data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is crucial to identifying symptoms and automating epidemiological surveillance processes. By harnessing the vast amount of unstructured text in EHRs, we can detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Juliano Genari , Guilherme Tegoni Goedert

The prediction of disease risk factors can screen vulnerable groups for effective prevention and treatment, so as to reduce their morbidity and mortality. Machine learning has a great demand for high-quality labeling information, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yang Lin , Muqing Li , Ziyi Zhu , Yinqiu Feng , Lingxi Xiao , Zexi Chen

The wide adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has resulted in large amounts of clinical data becoming available, which promises to support service delivery and advance clinical and informatics research. Deep learning techniques have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Natasha Mulligan , Gurdeep S. Mannu , Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva

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

Electronic health records (EHR) systems contain vast amounts of medical information about patients. These data can be used to train machine learning models that can predict health status, as well as to help prevent future diseases or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Mohamed Baza , Andrew Salazar , Mohamed Mahmoud , Mohamed Abdallah , Kemal Akkaya

Removing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from clinical notes in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is essential for research and AI development. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, their high computational costs and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Prakrithi Shivaprakash , Lekhansh Shukla , Animesh Mukherjee , Prabhat Chand , Pratima Murthy

Predicting diagnoses from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is an important medical application of multi-label learning. We propose a convolutional residual model for multi-label classification from doctor notes in EHR data. A given patient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-10 Xinyuan Zhang , Ricardo Henao , Zhe Gan , Yitong Li , Lawrence Carin

The extraction of critical patient information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) poses significant challenges due to the complexity and unstructured nature of the data. Traditional machine learning approaches often fail to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhimeng Luo , Abhibha Gupta , Adam Frisch , Daqing He

Privacy is a human right that sustains patient-provider trust. Clinical notes capture a patient's private vulnerability and individuality, which are used for care coordination and research. Under HIPAA Safe Harbor, these notes are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lavender Y. Jiang , Xujin Chris Liu , Kyunghyun Cho , Eric K. Oermann

The wide implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems facilitates the collection of large-scale health data from real clinical settings. Despite the significant increase in adoption of EHR systems, this data remains largely…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-26 Jinghe Zhang , Kamran Kowsari , James H. Harrison , Jennifer M. Lobo , Laura E. Barnes

Background : De-identification of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communi-cations in Medicine) files is an essential component of medical image research. Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and/or Personal Health Identifying Information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Bufano Michele , Kotter Elmar

As large language models (LLMs) become progressively more embedded in clinical decision-support, documentation, and patient-information systems, ensuring their privacy and trustworthiness has emerged as an imperative challenge for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Alexander Nemecek , Zebin Yun , Zahra Rahmani , Yaniv Harel , Vipin Chaudhary , Mahmood Sharif , Erman Ayday

Substantial increase in the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has opened new frontiers for predictive healthcare. However, while EHR systems are nearly ubiquitous, they lack a unified code system for representing medical concepts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kyunghoon Hur , Jiyoung Lee , Jungwoo Oh , Wesley Price , Young-Hak Kim , Edward Choi

Recent studies demonstrated that X-ray radiography showed higher accuracy than Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing for COVID-19 detection. Therefore, applying deep learning models to X-rays and radiography images increases the speed and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Vijay Srinivas Tida Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti , Sonya Hsu , Xiali Hei

Deep learning has shown great promise in the domain of medical image analysis. Medical professionals and healthcare providers have been adopting the technology to speed up and enhance their work. These systems use deep neural networks (DNN)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Moshe Levy , Guy Amit , Yuval Elovici , Yisroel Mirsky

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…

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

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