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Electronic health records (EHRs) are long, noisy, and often redundant, posing a major challenge for the clinicians who must navigate them. Large language models (LLMs) offer a promising solution for extracting and reasoning over this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Skatje Myers , Dmitriy Dligach , Timothy A. Miller , Samantha Barr , Yanjun Gao , Matthew Churpek , Anoop Mayampurath , Majid Afshar

The field of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by rapid advancements in machine learning and the recent breakthroughs in large language models. While these innovations hold immense potential…

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Electronic Health Records maintained in health care settings are a potential source of substantial clinical knowledge. The massive volume of data, unstructured nature of records and obligatory requirement of domain acquaintance together…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Gargi Priyadarshini , Ashish Anand

Background Clinical trials are essential to advancing cancer treatments, yet fewer than 10% of adults with cancer enroll in trials, and many studies fail to meet accrual targets. Artificial intelligence (AI) could improve identification of…

Accurate and efficient entity resolution (ER) is a significant challenge in many data mining and analysis projects requiring integrating and processing massive data collections. It is becoming increasingly important in real-world…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Samudra Herath , Matthew Roughan , Gary Glonek

Mentions of new concepts appear regularly in texts and require automated approaches to harvest and place them into Knowledge Bases (KB), e.g., ontologies and taxonomies. Existing datasets suffer from three issues, (i) mostly assuming that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Hang Dong , Jiaoyan Chen , Yuan He , Ian Horrocks

Here we study the semantic search and retrieval problem in biomedical digital libraries. First, we introduce MedGraph, a knowledge graph embedding-based method that provides semantic relevance retrieval and ranking for the biomedical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Islam Akef Ebeid , Elizabeth Pierce

The past decade has seen an explosion in the amount of digital information stored in electronic health records (EHR). While primarily designed for archiving patient clinical information and administrative healthcare tasks, many researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Benjamin Shickel , Patrick Tighe , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

The large amount of time clinicians spend sifting through patient notes and documenting in electronic health records (EHRs) is a leading cause of clinician burnout. By proactively and dynamically retrieving relevant notes during the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Sharon Jiang , Shannon Shen , Monica Agrawal , Barbara Lam , Nicholas Kurtzman , Steven Horng , David Karger , David Sontag

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

Unstructured clinical notes contain essential patient information but are challenging for physicians to search and interpret efficiently. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in question answering (QA), most existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dina Albassam

Semantic concepts and relations encoded in domain-specific ontologies and other medical semantic resources play a crucial role in deciphering terms in medical queries and documents. The exploitation of these resources for tackling the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mohammed Maree , Israa Noor , Khaled Rabayah , Mohammed Belkhatir , Saadat M. Alhashmi

Introduction: Semantic search, which retrieves documents based on conceptual similarity rather than keyword matching, offers substantial advantages for retrieval of clinical information. However, deploying semantic search across entire…

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain valuable patient data for health-related prediction tasks, such as disease prediction. Traditional approaches rely on supervised learning methods that require large labeled datasets, which can be…

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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,…

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The wide exploration of large language models (LLMs) raises the awareness of alignment between healthcare stakeholder preferences and model outputs. This alignment becomes a crucial foundation to empower the healthcare workflow effectively,…

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The utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for clinical risk prediction is on the rise. However, strict privacy regulations limit access to comprehensive health records, making it challenging to apply standard machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Angeela Acharya , Sulabh Shrestha , Anyi Chen , Joseph Conte , Sanja Avramovic , Siddhartha Sikdar , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Sanmay Das

AI-readiness describes the degree to which data may be optimally and ethically used for subsequent AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) methods, where those methods may involve some combination of model training, data classification, and…

The ever-growing volume of biomedical publications creates a critical need for efficient knowledge discovery. In this context, we introduce an open-source end-to-end framework designed to construct knowledge around specific diseases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Christos Theodoropoulos , Andrei Catalin Coman , James Henderson , Marie-Francine Moens

The increasing use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has emphasized the need for standardization and interoperability in healthcare data management. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has introduced the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Biswanath Dutta , Debanjali Bain