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The implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare industry has garnered considerable attention, attributable to its prospective enhancement of clinical outcomes, expansion of access to superior healthcare, cost reduction,…

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Feature engineering for Electronic Health Records (EHR) is complicated by irregular observation intervals, variable measurement frequencies, and structural sparsity inherent to clinical time series. Existing automated methods either lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Hojjat Karami , David Atienza , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Anisoara Ionescu

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

The application of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare has gained significant attention due to their ability to process complex medical data and provide insights for clinical decision-making. These models have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Amna Khalid , Ayma Khalid , Umar Khalid

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are data generated during routine clinical care. EHR offer researchers unprecedented phenotypic breadth and depth and have the potential to accelerate the pace of precision medicine at scale. A main EHR…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-28 Vaclav Papez , Spiros Denaxas , Harry Hemingway

Risk adjustment has become an increasingly important tool in healthcare. It has been extensively applied to payment adjustment for health plans to reflect the expected cost of providing coverage for members. Risk adjustment models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Qiu-Yue Zhong , Andrew H. Fairless , Jasmine M. McCammon , Farbod Rahmanian

Accurately extracting clinical information from speech is critical to the diagnosis and treatment of many neurological conditions. As such, there is interest in leveraging AI for automatic, objective assessments of clinical speech to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Daniela A. Wiepert , Rene L. Utianski , Joseph R. Duffy , John L. Stricker , Leland R. Barnard , David T. Jones , Hugo Botha

Unstructured Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, such as clinical notes, contain clinical contextual observations that are not directly reflected in structured data fields. This additional information can substantially improve model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zigui Wang , Minghui Sun , Jiang Shu , Matthew M. Engelhard , Lauren Franz , Benjamin A. Goldstein

We explore state-of-the-art neural models for question answering on electronic medical records and improve their ability to generalize better on previously unseen (paraphrased) questions at test time. We enable this by learning to predict…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat , Wei-Hung Weng , So Yeon Min , Preethi Raghavan , Peter Szolovits

In this work, we focus on the problem of learning a classification model that performs inference on patient Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Often, a large amount of costly expert supervision is required to learn such a model. To reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Eric Heim , Milos Hauskrecht

To facilitate healthcare delivery, language models (LMs) have significant potential for clinical prediction tasks using electronic health records (EHRs). However, in these high-stakes applications, unreliable decisions can result in high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zizhang Chen , Peizhao Li , Xiaomeng Dong , Pengyu Hong

The objective of this work is to develop an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data processing tool that confers clinical context to Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for error handling, bias mitigation and interpretability. We present…

Effective modeling of electronic health records presents many challenges as they contain large amounts of irregularity most of which are due to the varying procedures and diagnosis a patient may have. Despite the recent progress in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Sajad Darabi , Mohammad Kachuee , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide crucial information for clinical decision-making. However, their high-dimensionality, heterogeneity, and sparsity make clinical prediction challenging. Large Language Models (LLMs) allowed progress…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jesus Lovon-Melgarejo , Jose G. Moreno , Christine Damase-Michel , Lynda Tamine

Clinical semantic parsing (SP) is an important step toward identifying the exact information need (as a machine-understandable logical form) from a natural language query aimed at retrieving information from electronic health records…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Sarvesh Soni , Kirk Roberts

Structured electronic health records (EHR) are essential for clinical prediction. While count-based learners continue to perform strongly on such data, no benchmarking has directly compared them against more recent mixture-of-agents LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jifan Gao , Michael Rosenthal , Brian Wolpin , Simona Cristea

Significant advancements have been made in recent years to optimize patient recruitment for clinical trials, however, improved methods for patient recruitment prediction are needed to support trial site selection and to estimate appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jingshu Liu , Patricia J Allen , Luke Benz , Daniel Blickstein , Evon Okidi , Xiao Shi

Previous studies reveal that Electronic Health Records (EHR), which have been widely adopted in the U.S. to allow patients to access their personal medical information, do not have high readability to patients due to the prevalence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jung Hoon Lim , Sunjae Kwon , Zonghai Yao , John P. Lalor , Hong Yu

Current cancer screening guidelines cover only a few cancer types and rely on narrowly defined criteria such as age or a single risk factor like smoking history, to identify high-risk individuals. Predictive models using electronic health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jiheum Park , Chao Pang , Tristan Y. Lee , Jeong Yun Yang , Jacob Berkowitz , Alexander Z. Wei , Nicholas Tatonetti