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Electronic medical records contain multi-format electronic medical data that consist of an abundance of medical knowledge. Facing with patient's symptoms, experienced caregivers make right medical decisions based on their professional…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Meng Wang , Jiaheng Zhang , Jun Liu , Wei Hu , Sen Wang , Xue Li , Wenqiang Liu

Tabular datasets are ubiquitous in data science applications. Given their importance, it seems natural to apply state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms in order to fully unlock their potential. Here we propose neural network models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Inkit Padhi , Yair Schiff , Igor Melnyk , Mattia Rigotti , Youssef Mroueh , Pierre Dognin , Jerret Ross , Ravi Nair , Erik Altman

While electronic health records (EHRs) are widely used across various applications in healthcare, most applications use the EHRs in their raw (tabular) format. Relying on raw or simple data pre-processing can greatly limit the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Fahmida Liza Piya , Mehak Gupta , Rahmatollah Beheshti

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

We develop an unsupervised probabilistic model for heterogeneous Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. Utilizing a mixture model formulation, our approach directly models sequences of arbitrary length, such as medications and laboratory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Alan D. Kaplan , John D. Greene , Vincent X. Liu , Priyadip Ray

Electronic health records (EHR) contain extensive structured and unstructured data, including tabular information and free-text clinical notes. Querying relevant patient information often requires complex database operations, increasing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengliang ZHang

Electronic health records (EHRs) have improved data accessibility but have also introduced cognitive burden for physicians, given the sheer volume and complexity of the data involved. Advances in large language models (LLMs) create new…

We propose an approach for adapting the DeBERTa model for electronic health record (EHR) tasks using domain adaptation. We pretrain a small DeBERTa model on a dataset consisting of MIMIC-III discharge summaries, clinical notes, radiology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Christopher McMaster , David FL Liew , Douglas EV Pires

Electronic health records (EHRs), digital collections of patient healthcare events and observations, are ubiquitous in medicine and critical to healthcare delivery, operations, and research. Despite this central role, EHRs are notoriously…

Unstructured clinical text in EHRs contains crucial information for applications including decision support, trial matching, and retrospective research. Recent work has applied BERT-based models to clinical information extraction and text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Kexin Huang , Sankeerth Garapati , Alexander S. Rich

Building models for health prediction based on Electronic Health Records (EHR) has become an active research area. EHR patient journey data consists of patient time-ordered clinical events/visits from patients. Most existing studies focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yuxi Liu , Zhenhao Zhang , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Flora D. Salim

Background: Electronic Health Records hold detailed longitudinal information about each patient's health status and general clinical history, a large portion of which is stored within the unstructured text. Existing approaches focus mostly…

The paper researches the problem of representation learning for electronic health records. We present the patient histories as temporal sequences of diseases for which embeddings are learned in an unsupervised setup with a transformer-based…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Pavel Blinov , Vladimir Kokh

Time-series representation learning is a key area of research for remote healthcare monitoring applications. In this work, we focus on a dataset of recordings of in-home activity from people living with Dementia. We design a representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Alexander Capstick , Tianyu Cui , Yu Chen , Payam Barnaghi

Generating realistic synthetic electronic health records (EHRs) holds tremendous promise for accelerating healthcare research, facilitating AI model development and enhancing patient privacy. However, existing generative methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Guanglin Zhou , Sebastiano Barbieri

The combined growth of available data and their unstructured nature has received increased interest in natural language processing (NLP) techniques to make value of these data assets since this format is not suitable for statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Vitor Alcantara Batista , Alexandre Gonçalves Evsukoff

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) represents the latest incarnation of pretrained language models which have recently advanced a wide range of natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we showcase how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Yang Liu , Mirella Lapata

Electronic health records (EHRs) are usually highly dimensional, heterogeneous, and multimodal. Besides, the random recording of clinical variables results in high missing rates and uneven time intervals between adjacent records in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ningtao Liu , Ruoxi Gao , Jing Yuan , Calire Park , Shuwei Xing , Shuiping Gou

Tasks critical to enterprise profitability, such as customer churn prediction, fraudulent account detection or customer lifetime value estimation, are often tackled by models trained on features engineered from customer data in tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Pin-Jung Chen , Sahil Bhatnagar , Sagar Goyal , Damian Konrad Kowalczyk , Mayank Shrivastava

Synthesizing electronic health records (EHR) data has become a preferred strategy to address data scarcity, improve data quality, and model fairness in healthcare. However, existing approaches for EHR data generation predominantly rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuan Zhong , Xiaochen Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Xiaokun Zhang , Yaqing Wang , Mengdi Huai , Cao Xiao , Fenglong Ma