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Electronic Health Records (EHR) are high-dimensional data with implicit connections among thousands of medical concepts. These connections, for instance, the co-occurrence of diseases and lab-disease correlations can be informative when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Weicheng Zhu , Narges Razavian

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain a vast amount of high-dimensional multi-modal data that can accurately represent a patient's medical history. Unfortunately, most of this data is either unstructured or semi-structured, rendering it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ashwyn Sharma , David I. Feldman , Aneesh Jain

Named Entity Recognition is one of the most important text processing requirement in many NLP tasks. In this paper we use a deep architecture to accomplish the task of recognizing named entities in a given Hindi text sentence. Bidirectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Bansi Shah , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

The presence of detailed clinical information in electronic health record (EHR) systems presents promising prospects for enhancing patient care through automated retrieval techniques. Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that accessing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Abderrahim Oussama Batouche , Eugen Czeizler , Miika Koskinen , Tuomas Mirtti , Antti Sakari Rannikko

Although modern named entity recognition (NER) systems show impressive performance on standard datasets, they perform poorly when presented with noisy data. In particular, capitalization is a strong signal for entities in many languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Stephen Mayhew , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

The electronic health record (EHR) targets the systematized collection of patient-specific electronically-stored health data. Currently the EHR is an evolving concept driven by ongoing technical developments and open or unclear legal issues…

Medical knowledge bases (KBs), distilled from biomedical literature and regulatory actions, are expected to provide high-quality information to facilitate clinical decision making. Entity disambiguation (also referred to as entity linking)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Alina Vretinaris , Chuan Lei , Vasilis Efthymiou , Xiao Qin , Fatma Özcan

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) is the task of detecting named entities of specific types (such as 'Person' or 'Medicine') without any training examples. Current research increasingly relies on large synthetic datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Max Ploner , Fabio Barth , Nicolaas Jedema , Alan Akbik

Objective: To enhance automated de-identification of radiology reports by scaling transformer-based models through extensive training datasets and benchmarking performance against commercial cloud vendor systems for protected health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Eva Prakash , Maayane Attias , Pierre Chambon , Justin Xu , Steven Truong , Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Tessa Cook , Curtis Langlotz

Modern electronic health records (EHRs) provide data to answer clinically meaningful questions. The growing data in EHRs makes healthcare ripe for the use of machine learning. However, learning in a clinical setting presents unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Marzyeh Ghassemi , Tristan Naumann , Peter Schulam , Andrew L. Beam , Irene Y. Chen , Rajesh Ranganath

Named entity recognition (NER) models are typically based on the architecture of Bi-directional LSTM (BiLSTM). The constraints of sequential nature and the modeling of single input prevent the full utilization of global information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Ying Luo , Fengshun Xiao , Hai Zhao

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

Despite the advances in digital healthcare systems offering curated structured knowledge, much of the critical information still lies in large volumes of unlabeled and unstructured clinical texts. These texts, which often contain protected…

The automated and timely conversion of cybersecurity information from unstructured online sources, such as blogs and articles to more formal representations has become a necessity for many applications in the domain nowadays. Named Entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Houssem Gasmi , Jannik Laval , Abdelaziz Bouras

Clinical notes often describe the most important aspects of a patient's physiology and are therefore critical to medical research. However, these notes are typically inaccessible to researchers without prior removal of sensitive protected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Willie Boag , Tristan Naumann , Peter Szolovits

Early detection of preventable diseases is important for better disease management, improved inter-ventions, and more efficient health-care resource allocation. Various machine learning approacheshave been developed to utilize information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Jingshu Liu , Zachariah Zhang , Narges Razavian

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

Due to patient privacy protection concerns, machine learning research in healthcare has been undeniably slower and limited than in other application domains. High-quality, realistic, synthetic electronic health records (EHRs) can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huan He , Shifan Zhao , Yuanzhe Xi , Joyce C Ho

Clinical trials are essential for drug development but often suffer from expensive, inaccurate and insufficient patient recruitment. The core problem of patient-trial matching is to find qualified patients for a trial, where patient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xingyao Zhang , Cao Xiao , Lucas M. Glass , Jimeng Sun

Distributed representations of medical concepts have been used to support downstream clinical tasks recently. Electronic Health Records (EHR) capture different aspects of patients' hospital encounters and serve as a rich source for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shaika Chowdhury , Chenwei Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Yuan Luo