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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Ji Young Lee , Franck Dernoncourt , Ozlem Uzuner , Peter Szolovits

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

In this paper, we present our approach to extracting structured information from unstructured Electronic Health Records (EHR) [2] which can be used to, for example, study adverse drug reactions in patients due to chemicals in their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Amogh Kamat Tarcar , Aashis Tiwari , Vineet Naique Dhaimodker , Penjo Rebelo , Rahul Desai , Dattaraj Rao

Clinical notes contain an abundance of important but not-readily accessible information about patients. Systems to automatically extract this information rely on large amounts of training data for which their exists limited resources to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Andriy Mulyar , Bridget T. McInnes

Electronic health records (EHR's) are only a first step in capturing and utilizing health-related data - the problem is turning that data into useful information. Models produced via data mining and predictive analysis profile inherited…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Casey Bennett , Thomas Doub

Electronic Health Records (EHR)-based disease prediction models have demonstrated significant clinical value in promoting precision medicine and enabling early intervention. However, existing large language models face two major challenges:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Junke Wang , Hongshun Ling , Li Zhang , Longqian Zhang , Fang Wang , Yuan Gao , Zhi Li

Clinical interactions are initially recorded and documented in free text medical notes. ICD coding is the task of classifying and coding all diagnoses, symptoms and procedures associated with a patient's visit. The process is often manual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Zachariah Zhang , Jingshu Liu , Narges Razavian

Predicting health risks from electronic health records (EHR) is a topic of recent interest. Deep learning models have achieved success by modeling temporal and feature interaction. However, these methods learn insufficient representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhihao Yu , Chaohe Zhang , Yasha Wang , Wen Tang , Jiangtao Wang , Liantao Ma

Electronic Health Records are large repositories of valuable clinical data, with a significant portion stored in unstructured text format. This textual data includes clinical events (e.g., disorders, symptoms, findings, medications and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shubham Agarwal , Thomas Searle , Mart Ratas , Anthony Shek , James Teo , Richard Dobson

Deep learning models have demonstrated superior performance in various healthcare applications. However, the major limitation of these deep models is usually the lack of high-quality training data due to the private and sensitive nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Qiuhao Lu , Dejing Dou , Thien Huu Nguyen

Unstructured clinical text in EHRs contains crucial information for applications including decision support, trial matching, and retrospective research. Recent work has applied BERT-based models to clinical information extraction and text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Kexin Huang , Sankeerth Garapati , Alexander S. Rich

Large scale contextual representation models, such as BERT, have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP) in recently years. However, in certain area like healthcare, accessing diverse large scale text data from multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Dianbo Liu , Tim Miller

Electronic health records (EHRs) are designed to synthesize diverse data types, including unstructured clinical notes, structured lab tests, and time-series visit data. Physicians draw on these multimodal and temporal sources of EHR data to…

The extraction of critical patient information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) poses significant challenges due to the complexity and unstructured nature of the data. Traditional machine learning approaches often fail to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhimeng Luo , Abhibha Gupta , Adam Frisch , Daqing He

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

Predictive modeling with electronic health record (EHR) data is anticipated to drive personalized medicine and improve healthcare quality. Constructing predictive statistical models typically requires extraction of curated predictor…

The broad adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has led to vast amounts of data being accumulated on a patient's history, diagnosis, prescriptions, and lab tests. Advances in recommender technologies have the potential to utilize this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Suman Bhoi , Lee Mong Li , Wynne Hsu

In the field of machine learning, domain-specific annotated data is an invaluable resource for training effective models. However, in the medical domain, this data often includes Personal Health Information (PHI), raising significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Tal Baumel , Andre Manoel , Daniel Jones , Shize Su , Huseyin Inan , Aaron , Bornstein , Robert Sim

The shift to electronic medical records (EMRs) has engendered research into machine learning and natural language technologies to analyze patient records, and to predict from these clinical outcomes of interest. Two observations motivate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sarthak Jain , Ramin Mohammadi , Byron C. Wallace

In recent years, we have witnessed an increased interest in temporal modeling of patient records from large scale Electronic Health Records (EHR). While simpler RNN models have been used for such problems, memory networks, which in other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Prithwish Chakraborty , Fei Wang , Jianying Hu , Daby Sow