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Unstructured information in electronic health records provide an invaluable resource for medical research. To protect the confidentiality of patients and to conform to privacy regulations, de-identification methods automatically remove…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Jan Trienes , Dolf Trieschnigg , Christin Seifert , Djoerd Hiemstra

The rise of chronic diseases and pandemics like COVID-19 has emphasized the need for effective patient data processing while ensuring privacy through anonymization and de-identification of protected health information (PHI). Anonymized data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Murat Gunay , Bunyamin Keles , Raife Hizlan

Clinical patient notes are critical for documenting patient interactions, diagnoses, and treatment plans in medical practice. Ensuring accurate evaluation of these notes is essential for medical education and certification. However, manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Jingyu Xu , Yifeng Jiang , Bin Yuan , Shulin Li , Tianbo Song

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

Large-scale clinical data is invaluable to driving many computational scientific advances today. However, understandable concerns regarding patient privacy hinder the open dissemination of such data and give rise to suboptimal siloed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Oren Melamud , Chaitanya Shivade

Objective: Neural network de-identification studies have focused on individual datasets. These studies assume the availability of a sufficient amount of human-annotated data to train models that can generalize to corresponding test data. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Kahyun Lee , Nicholas J. Dobbins , Bridget McInnes , Meliha Yetisgen , Ozlem Uzuner

Unstructured textual data is at the heart of healthcare systems. For obvious privacy reasons, these documents are not accessible to researchers as long as they contain personally identifiable information. One way to share this data while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yakini Tchouka , Jean-François Couchot , David Laiymani

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

Protecting patient privacy in clinical narratives is essential for enabling secondary use of healthcare data under regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA. While manual de-identification remains the gold standard, it is costly and slow,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Michele Miranda , Xinlan Yan , Nishant Mishra , Rachel Murphy , Ameen Abu-Hanna , Sébastien Bratières , Iacer Calixto

De-identification of medical images is a critical step to ensure privacy during data sharing in research and clinical settings. The initial step in this process involves detecting Protected Health Information (PHI), which can be found in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Tuan Truong , Ivo M. Baltruschat , Mark Klemens , Grit Werner , Matthias Lenga

Objective The evaluation of natural language processing (NLP) models for clinical text de-identification relies on the availability of clinical notes, which is often restricted due to privacy concerns. The NLP Sandbox is an approach for…

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a key technique for developing Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that leverage Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to build diagnostic and prognostic models. NLP enables the conversion of…

This paper presents a novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) framework for enhancing medical diagnosis through the integration of advanced techniques in data augmentation, feature extraction, and classification. The proposed approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Sahabeh Saadati , Mohammad Manthouri

The unstructured nature of clinical notes within electronic health records often conceals vital patient-related information, making it challenging to access or interpret. To uncover this hidden information, specialized Natural Language…

This article reviews recent advances in applying natural language processing (NLP) to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for computational phenotyping. NLP-based computational phenotyping has numerous applications including diagnosis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Zexian Zeng , Yu Deng , Xiaoyu Li , Tristan Naumann , Yuan Luo

De-identification of data used for automatic speech recognition modeling is a critical component in protecting privacy, especially in the medical domain. However, simply removing all personally identifiable information (PII) from end-to-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Martin Flechl , Shou-Chun Yin , Junho Park , Peter Skala

This paper addresses the challenges posed by the unstructured nature and high-dimensional semantic complexity of electronic health record texts. A deep learning method based on attention mechanisms is proposed to achieve unified modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ting Xu , Xiaoxiao Deng , Xiandong Meng , Haifeng Yang , Yan Wu

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 digitization of healthcare has facilitated the sharing and re-using of medical data but has also raised concerns about confidentiality and privacy. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) mandates removing…

Objective: We investigate whether deep learning techniques for natural language processing (NLP) can be used efficiently for patient phenotyping. Patient phenotyping is a classification task for determining whether a patient has a medical…