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Objective: Temporal electronic health records (EHRs) can be a wealth of information for secondary uses, such as clinical events prediction or chronic disease management. However, challenges exist for temporal data representation. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Feng Xie , Han Yuan , Yilin Ning , Marcus Eng Hock Ong , Mengling Feng , Wynne Hsu , Bibhas Chakraborty , Nan Liu

Electronic health records (EHR) contain narrative notes that provide extensive details on the medical condition and management of patients. Natural language processing (NLP) of clinical notes can use observed frequencies of clinical terms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bryan Cai , Sihang Zeng , Yucong Lin , Zheng Yuan , Doudou Zhou , Lu Tian

Electronic health record (EHR) foundation models have been an area ripe for exploration with their improved performance in various medical tasks. Despite the rapid advances, there exists a fundamental limitation: Processing unseen medical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Junmo Kim , Namkyeong Lee , Jiwon Kim , Kwangsoo Kim

Foundation models for structured electronic health records (EHRs) are pretrained on longitudinal sequences of timestamped clinical events to learn adaptable patient representations. Tokenization -- how these timelines are converted into…

Today, despite decades of developments in medicine and the growing interest in precision healthcare, vast majority of diagnoses happen once patients begin to show noticeable signs of illness. Early indication and detection of diseases,…

Deep learning models have shown tremendous potential in learning representations, which are able to capture some key properties of the data. This makes them great candidates for transfer learning: Exploiting commonalities between different…

Recent advances in transformer architectures have revolutionised natural language processing, but their application to healthcare domains presents unique challenges. Patient timelines are characterised by irregular sampling, variable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Linglong Qian , Zina Ibrahim

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain patients' heterogeneous data that are collected from medical providers involved in the patient's care, including medical notes, clinical events, laboratory test results, symptoms, and diagnoses. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shuai Niu , Yunya Song , Qing Yin , Yike Guo , Xian Yang

Objective: To transform heterogeneous clinical data from electronic health records into clinically meaningful constructed features using data driven method that rely, in part, on temporal relations among data. Materials and Methods: The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Edward Choi , Andy Schuetz , Walter F. Stewart , Jimeng Sun

Electronic health records (EHRs) form an invaluable resource for training clinical decision support systems. To leverage the potential of such systems in high-risk applications, we need large, structured tabular datasets on which we can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Paloma Rabaey , Adrick Tench , Stefan Heytens , Thomas Demeester

In this paper, we present our approach to extracting structured information from unstructured Electronic Health Records (EHR) [2] which can be used to, for example, study adverse drug reactions in patients due to chemicals in their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Amogh Kamat Tarcar , Aashis Tiwari , Vineet Naique Dhaimodker , Penjo Rebelo , Rahul Desai , Dattaraj Rao

Extracting actionable insight from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) poses several challenges for traditional machine learning approaches. Patients are often missing data relative to each other; the data comes in a variety of modalities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Brandon Malone , Alberto Garcia-Duran , Mathias Niepert

Learning efficient representations for concepts has been proven to be an important basis for many applications such as machine translation or document classification. Proper representations of medical concepts such as diagnosis, medication,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Edward Choi , Mohammad Taha Bahadori , Elizabeth Searles , Catherine Coffey , Jimeng Sun

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are high-dimensional data with implicit connections among thousands of medical concepts. These connections, for instance, the co-occurrence of diseases and lab-disease correlations can be informative when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Weicheng Zhu , Narges Razavian

Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been heavily used in modern healthcare systems for recording patients' admission information to hospitals. Many data-driven approaches employ temporal features in EHR for predicting specific diseases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Chang Lu , Chandan K. Reddy , Yue Ning

The multivariate, asynchronous nature of real-world clinical data, such as that generated in Intensive Care Units (ICUs), challenges traditional AI-based decision-support systems. These often assume data regularity and feature independence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ricardo Santos , André V. Carreiro , Xi Peng , Hugo Gamboa , Holger Fröhlich

The presence of detailed clinical information in electronic health record (EHR) systems presents promising prospects for enhancing patient care through automated retrieval techniques. Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that accessing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Abderrahim Oussama Batouche , Eugen Czeizler , Miika Koskinen , Tuomas Mirtti , Antti Sakari Rannikko

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

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 widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) enables the acquisition of heterogeneous clinical data, spanning lab tests, vital signs, medications, and procedures, which offer transformative potential for artificial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Mingcheng Zhu , Yu Liu , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu