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Electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly recognized as a cost-effective resource for patient recruitment in clinical research. However, how to optimally select a cohort from millions of individuals to answer a scientific question…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-14 Guanghao Zhang , Lauren J. Beesley , Bhramar Mukherjee , Xu Shi

Deep learning-based predictive models, leveraging Electronic Health Records (EHR), are receiving increasing attention in healthcare. An effective representation of a patient's EHR should hierarchically encompass both the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jiayuan Chen , Changchang Yin , Yuanlong Wang , Ping Zhang

Patient representation learning based on electronic health records (EHR) is a critical task for disease prediction. This task aims to effectively extract useful information on dynamic features. Although various existing works have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Ziyue Yu , Jiayi Wang , Wuman Luo , Rita Tse , Giovanni Pau

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide rich longitudinal clinical evidence that is central to medical decision-making, motivating the use of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to ground large language model (LLM) predictions. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Lang Cao , Qingyu Chen , Yue Guo

Deep learning models exhibit state-of-the-art performance for many predictive healthcare tasks using electronic health records (EHR) data, but these models typically require training data volume that exceeds the capacity of most healthcare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Edward Choi , Cao Xiao , Walter F. Stewart , Jimeng Sun

When training clinical prediction models from electronic health records (EHRs), a key concern should be a model's ability to sustain performance over time when deployed, even as care practices, database systems, and population demographics…

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain important clinical information about patients. Efficient and effective use of this information could supplement or even replace manual chart review as a means of studying and improving the quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Efsun Sarioglu Kayi , Kabir Yadav , James M. Chamberlain , Hyeong-Ah Choi

Objective: To pre-train fair and unbiased patient representations from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) using a novel weighted loss function that reduces bias and improves fairness in deep representation learning models. Methods: We defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Sonish Sivarajkumar , Yufei Huang , Yanshan Wang

The field of clinical natural language processing has been advanced significantly since the introduction of deep learning models. The self-supervised representation learning and the transfer learning paradigm became the methods of choice in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Andrey Kormilitzin , Nemanja Vaci , Qiang Liu , Alejo Nevado-Holgado

This study applies Large Language Models (LLMs) to two foundational Electronic Health Record (EHR) data science tasks: structured data querying (using programmatic languages, Python/Pandas) and information extraction from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Juan Jose Rubio Jan , Jack Wu , Julia Ive

Clinical diagnosis prediction models, when provided with a patient's medical history, aim to detect potential diseases early, facilitating timely intervention and improving prognostic outcomes. However, the inherent scarcity of patient data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mingyu Derek Ma , Xiaoxuan Wang , Yijia Xiao , Anthony Cuturrufo , Vijay S Nori , Eran Halperin , Wei Wang

Electronic health records (EHRs) store an extensive array of patient information, encompassing medical histories, diagnoses, treatments, and test outcomes. These records are crucial for enabling healthcare providers to make well-informed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yu-Neng Chuang , Ruixiang Tang , Xiaoqian Jiang , Xia Hu

Electronic health records (EHR) are widely believed to hold a profusion of actionable insights, encrypted in an irregular, semi-structured format, amidst a loud noise background. To simplify learning patterns of health and disease, medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 David A. Bloore , Romane Gauriau , Anna L. Decker , Jacob Oppenheim

Objective: Clinical trials are essential for advancing pharmaceutical interventions, but they face a bottleneck in selecting eligible participants. Although leveraging electronic health records (EHR) for recruitment has gained popularity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mojdeh Rahmanian , Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad , Seyedeh Zahra Mousavi

Efficient representation of patients is very important in the healthcare domain and can help with many tasks such as medical risk prediction. Many existing methods, such as diagnostic Cost Groups (DCG), rely on expert knowledge to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xianlong Zeng , Soheil Moosavinasab , En-Ju D Lin , Simon Lin , Razvan Bunescu , Chang Liu

The impact of machine learning models on healthcare will depend on the degree of trust that healthcare professionals place in the predictions made by these models. In this paper, we present a method to provide people with clinical expertise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Aniruddh Raghu , John Guttag , Katherine Young , Eugene Pomerantsev , Adrian V. Dalca , Collin M. Stultz

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 record is an important source for clinical researches and applications, and errors inevitably occur in the data, which could lead to severe damages to both patients and hospital services. One of such error is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Liang Zhao , Zhiyuan Ma , Yangming Zhou , Kai Wang , Shengping Liu , Ju Gao

Research is a tertiary priority in the EHR, where the priorities are patient care and billing. Because of this, the data is not standardized or formatted in a manner easily adapted to machine learning approaches. Data may be missing for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones

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…