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The increasing availability of sensitive textual data has created an urgent need for robust de-identification methods that enable compliant data sharing while preserving downstream utility. This paper presents DeID-Clinic, a multi-layered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Angel Paul , Dhivin Shaji , Lifeng Han , Warren Del-Pinto , Goran Nenadic , Suzan Verberne

Clinical free-text data offers immense potential to improve population health research such as richer phenotyping, symptom tracking, and contextual understanding of patient care. However, these data present significant privacy risks due to…

A promising application of AI to healthcare is the retrieval of information from electronic health records (EHRs), e.g. to aid clinicians in finding relevant information for a consultation or to recruit suitable patients for a study. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Claudia Schulz , Josh Levy-Kramer , Camille Van Assel , Miklos Kepes , Nils Hammerla

De-identification is the task of identifying protected health information (PHI) in the clinical text. Existing neural de-identification models often fail to generalize to a new dataset. We propose a simple yet effective data augmentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Xiang Yue , Shuang Zhou

Documents revealing sensitive information about individuals must typically be de-identified. This de-identification is often done by masking all mentions of personally identifiable information (PII), thereby making it more difficult to…

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While ECG data is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring heart conditions, it also contains unique biometric information that poses significant privacy risks. Existing ECG re-identification studies rely on exhaustive analysis of numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Ziyu Wang , Anil Kanduri , Seyed Amir Hossein Aqajari , Salar Jafarlou , Sanaz R. Mousavi , Pasi Liljeberg , Shaista Malik , Amir M. Rahmani

Previous studies have shown that health information technologies have a positive impact on health systems. Electronic health record (EHR) systems are one of the most promising applications, demonstrating a positive effect in high income…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Stefan Hochwarter , Do Duy Cuong , Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc , Mattias Larsson

Electronic Health Records(EHR) are gaining a lot of popularity all over the world. The current EHR systems however have their fair share of problems related to privacy and security. We have proposed a mechanism which provides a solution to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Gaganjeet Reen , Manasi Mohandas , S Venkatesan

The broad adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has led to vast amounts of data being accumulated on a patient's history, diagnosis, prescriptions, and lab tests. Advances in recommender technologies have the potential to utilize this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Suman Bhoi , Lee Mong Li , Wynne Hsu

De-identified health data are frequently used in research. As AI advances heighten the risk of re-identification, it is important to respond to concerns about transparency, data privacy, and patient preferences. However, few practical and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Di Hu , Xi Lu , Yunan Chen , Michelle Keller , An T. Nguyen , Vu Le , Tsung-Ting Kuo , Lucila Ohno-Machado , Kai Zheng

An estimated 180 papers focusing on deep learning and EHR were published between 2010 and 2018. Despite the common workflow structure appearing in these publications, no trusted and verified software framework exists, forcing researchers to…

The Health Index (HI) is crucial for evaluating system health and is important for tasks like anomaly detection and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction of safety-critical systems. Real-time, meticulous monitoring of system conditions is…

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The exponential growth of collected, processed, and shared microdata has given rise to concerns about individuals' privacy. As a result, laws and regulations have emerged to control what organisations do with microdata and how they protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Pedro Faria , Luís Antunes

One-to-one set matching is a key design for DETR to establish its end-to-end capability, so that object detection does not require a hand-crafted NMS (non-maximum suppression) to remove duplicate detections. This end-to-end signature is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ding Jia , Yuhui Yuan , Haodi He , Xiaopei Wu , Haojun Yu , Weihong Lin , Lei Sun , Chao Zhang , Han Hu

This report addresses the technical aspects of de-identification of medical images of human subjects and biospecimens, such that re-identification risk of ethical, moral, and legal concern is sufficiently reduced to allow unrestricted…

Accessing longitudinal multimodal Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) is challenging due to privacy concerns, which hinders the use of ML for healthcare applications. Synthetic EHRs generation bypasses the need to share sensitive real…

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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

Removing patient-specific information from medical images is crucial to enable sharing and open science without compromising patient identities. However, many methods currently used for deidentification have negative effects on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Adrienne Kline , Abhijit Gaonkar , Daniel Pittman , Chris Kuehn , Nils Forkert

Electronic Health Records are electronic data generated during or as a byproduct of routine patient care. Structured, semi-structured and unstructured EHR offer researchers unprecedented phenotypic breadth and depth and have the potential…

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Healthcare Information Technology (IT) has made great advances over the past few years and while these advances have enable healthcare professionals to provide higher quality healthcare to a larger number of individuals it also provides the…

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