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The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has significantly increased the amount of available healthcare data. This has allowed models inspired by Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision, which scale…

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…

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Synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHR) have emerged as a pivotal tool in advancing healthcare applications and machine learning models, particularly for researchers without direct access to healthcare data. Although existing methods,…

We address the problem of predicting when a disease will develop, i.e., medical event time (MET), from a patient's electronic health record (EHR). The MET of non-communicable diseases like diabetes is highly correlated to cumulative health…

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Evaluating the clinical similarities between pairwise patients is a fundamental problem in healthcare informatics. A proper patient similarity measure enables various downstream applications, such as cohort study and treatment comparative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-12 Zihao Zhu , Changchang Yin , Buyue Qian , Yu Cheng , Jishang Wei , Fei Wang

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 emergence of foundation models in healthcare has opened new avenues for learning generalizable representations from large scale clinical data. Yet, existing approaches often struggle to reconcile the tabular and event based nature of…

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Early diagnosis of disease can lead to improved health outcomes, including higher survival rates and lower treatment costs. With the massive amount of information available in electronic health records (EHRs), there is great potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Asem Alaa , Erik Mayer , Mauricio Barahona

In longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs), the event records of a patient are distributed over a long period of time and the temporal relations between the events reflect sufficient domain knowledge to benefit prediction tasks such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xueping Peng , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Sen Wang , Jing Jiang , Michael Blumenstein

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

The way we analyse clinical texts has undergone major changes over the last years. The introduction of language models such as BERT led to adaptations for the (bio)medical domain like PubMedBERT and ClinicalBERT. These models rely on large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Tom van Sonsbeek , Xiantong Zhen , Marcel Worring

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide a rich, longitudinal view of patient health and hold significant potential for advancing clinical decision support, risk prediction, and data-driven healthcare research. However, most artificial…

Electronic medical reports (EHR) contain a vast amount of information that can be leveraged for machine learning applications in healthcare. However, existing survival analysis methods often struggle to effectively handle the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Paul Minchella , Loïc Verlingue , Stéphane Chrétien , Rémi Vaucher , Guillaume Metzler

Objective: To transform heterogeneous clinical data from electronic health records into clinically meaningful constructed features using data driven method that rely, in part, on temporal relations among data. Materials and Methods: The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Edward Choi , Andy Schuetz , Walter F. Stewart , Jimeng Sun

Text classification tasks which aim at harvesting and/or organizing information from electronic health records are pivotal to support clinical and translational research. However these present specific challenges compared to other…

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Electronic Health Records (EHR) contain valuable clinical information for predicting patient outcomes and guiding healthcare decisions. However, effectively modeling Electronic Health Records (EHRs) requires addressing data heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Junhan Yu , Zhunyi Feng , Junwei Lu , Tianxi Cai , Doudou Zhou

Electronic health records (EHRs) are longitudinal records of a patient's interactions with healthcare systems. A patient's EHR data is organized as a three-level hierarchy from top to bottom: patient journey - all the experiences of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xueping Peng , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Sen Wang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

We introduce a novel contrastive representation learning objective and a training scheme for clinical time series. Specifically, we project high dimensional EHR. data to a closed unit ball of low dimension, encoding geometric priors so that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Thesath Nanayakkara , Gilles Clermont , Christopher James Langmead , David Swigon

Objective: We develop a deep learning framework based on the pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model using unstructured clinical notes from electronic health records (EHRs) to predict the risk of…

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