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Embeddings of medical concepts such as medication, procedure and diagnosis codes in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are central to healthcare analytics. Previous work on medical concept embedding takes medical concepts and EMRs as words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xiangrui Cai , Jinyang Gao , Kee Yuan Ngiam , Beng Chin Ooi , Ying Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

Objective: Medical relations are the core components of medical knowledge graphs that are needed for healthcare artificial intelligence. However, the requirement of expert annotation by conventional algorithm development processes creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Yucong Lin , Keming Lu , Yulin Chen , Chuan Hong , Sheng Yu

We propose a novel training method that integrates rules into deep learning, in a way the strengths of the rules are controllable at inference. Deep Neural Networks with Controllable Rule Representations (DeepCTRL) incorporates a rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Sungyong Seo , Sercan O. Arik , Jinsung Yoon , Xiang Zhang , Kihyuk Sohn , Tomas Pfister

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

Many diseases, including cancer and chronic conditions, require extended treatment periods and long-term strategies. Machine learning and AI research focusing on electronic health records (EHRs) have emerged to address this need. Effective…

In an emergency room (ER) setting, stroke triage or screening is a common challenge. A quick CT is usually done instead of MRI due to MRI's slow throughput and high cost. Clinical tests are commonly referred to during the process, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Tongan Cai , Haomiao Ni , Mingli Yu , Xiaolei Huang , Kelvin Wong , John Volpi , James Z. Wang , Stephen T. C. Wong

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Vaclav Papez , Spiros Denaxas , Harry Hemingway

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

Clinical trials are crucial for drug development but are time consuming, expensive, and often burdensome on patients. More importantly, clinical trials face uncertain outcomes due to issues with efficacy, safety, or problems with patient…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tianfan Fu , Kexin Huang , Cao Xiao , Lucas M. Glass , Jimeng Sun

The widespread application of Electronic Health Records (EHR) data in the medical field has led to early successes in disease risk prediction using deep learning methods. These methods typically require extensive data for training due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shibo Li , Hengliang Cheng , Weihua Li

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) aggregate diverse information at the patient level, holding a trajectory representative of the evolution of the patient health status throughout time. Although this information provides context and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 João Figueira Silva , Sérgio Matos

Machine learning (ML) applications in healthcare are extensively researched, but successful translations to the bedside are scant. Healthcare institutions are establishing frameworks to govern and promote the implementation of accurate,…

Developing high-performance entity normalization algorithms that can alleviate the term variation problem is of great interest to the biomedical community. Although deep learning-based methods have been successfully applied to biomedical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Zongcheng Ji , Qiang Wei , Hua Xu

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…

The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model has achieved the state-of-the-art performance for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Yet, limited research has been contributed to studying its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zimin Wan , Chenchen Xu , Hanna Suominen

Patient similarity assessment, which identifies patients similar to a given patient, can help improve medical care. The assessment can be performed using Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). Patient similarity measurement requires converting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hoda Memarzadeh , Nasser Ghadiri , Matthias Samwald , Maryam Lotfi Shahreza

Improving large language models (LLMs) for electronic health record (EHR) reasoning is essential for enabling accurate and generalizable clinical predictions. While LLMs excel at medical text understanding, they underperform on EHR-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yue Fang , Yuxin Guo , Jiaran Gao , Hongxin Ding , Xinke Jiang , Weibin Liao , Yongxin Xu , Yinghao Zhu , Zhibang Yang , Liantao Ma , Junfeng Zhao , Yasha Wang

Computational prediction of in-hospital mortality in the setting of an intensive care unit can help clinical practitioners to guide care and make early decisions for interventions. As clinical data are complex and varied in their structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Tingyi Wanyan , Hossein Honarvar , Ariful Azad , Ying Ding , Benjamin S. Glicksberg

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task of Biomedical Natural Language Processing for extracting relevant information from biomedical texts, such as clinical records, scientific publications, and electronic health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Fahime Shahrokh , Nasser Ghadiri , Rasoul Samani , Milad Moradi

Electronic Health Records (EHR) store clinical documentation as base64 encoded attachments in FHIR DocumentReference resources, which makes semantic question answering difficult. Traditional vector database methods often miss nuanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tarun Kumar Chawdhury , Jon D. Duke