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Automated question answering (QA) over electronic health records (EHRs) can bridge critical information gaps for clinicians and patients, yet it demands both precise evidence retrieval and faithful answer generation under limited…

The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in healthcare institutes has generated vast amounts of medical data, offering significant opportunities for improving healthcare services through deep learning techniques.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Suhan Cui , Jiaqi Wang , Yuan Zhong , Han Liu , Ting Wang , Fenglong Ma

Foundation models trained on patient electronic health records (EHRs) require tokenizing medical data into sequences of discrete vocabulary items. Existing tokenizers treat medical codes from EHRs as isolated textual tokens. However, each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xiaorui Su , Shvat Messica , Yepeng Huang , Ruth Johnson , Lukas Fesser , Shanghua Gao , Faryad Sahneh , Marinka Zitnik

Multi-modal retrieval-augmented Question Answering (MRAQA), integrating text and images, has gained significant attention in information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP). Traditional ranking methods rely on small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yang Bai , Christan Earl Grant , Daisy Zhe Wang

A meaningful understanding of clinical protocols and patient pathways helps improve healthcare outcomes. Electronic health records (EHR) reflect real-world treatment behaviours that are used to enhance healthcare management but present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Adrian Caruana , Madhushi Bandara , Daniel Catchpoole , Paul J Kennedy

Background: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich information of patients' health history, which usually include both structured and unstructured data. There have been many studies focusing on distilling valuable information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ziyi Liu , Jiaqi Zhang , Yongshuai Hou , Xinran Zhang , Ge Li , Yang Xiang

Electronic Health Records (EHR) systematically organize patient health data through standardized medical codes, serving as a comprehensive and invaluable source for predictive modeling. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Haiyan Wang , Ye Yuan

Substantial increase in the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has opened new frontiers for predictive healthcare. However, while EHR systems are nearly ubiquitous, they lack a unified code system for representing medical concepts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kyunghoon Hur , Jiyoung Lee , Jungwoo Oh , Wesley Price , Young-Hak Kim , Edward Choi

Summarization of electronic health records (EHRs) can substantially minimize 'screen time' for both patients as well as medical personnel. In recent years summarization of EHRs have employed machine learning pipelines using state of the art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Walid Saba , Suzanne Wendelken , James. Shanahan

We present HEAD-QA, a multi-choice question answering testbed to encourage research on complex reasoning. The questions come from exams to access a specialized position in the Spanish healthcare system, and are challenging even for highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 David Vilares , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Electronic health records (EHR) are widely believed to hold a profusion of actionable insights, encrypted in an irregular, semi-structured format, amidst a loud noise background. To simplify learning patterns of health and disease, medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 David A. Bloore , Romane Gauriau , Anna L. Decker , Jacob Oppenheim

Structured data summarization involves generation of natural language summaries from structured input data. In this work, we consider summarizing structured data occurring in the form of tables as they are prevalent across a wide variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Parag Jain , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Preksha Nema , Mitesh M. Khapra , Shreyas Shetty

Information needs are naturally represented as questions. Automatic Natural-Language Question Answering (NLQA) has only recently become a practical task on a larger scale and without domain constraints. This paper gives a brief introduction…

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Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a complex multi-modal reasoning task, demanding intelligent systems to accurately respond to natural language queries based on audio-video input pairs. Nevertheless, prevalent AVQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jie Ma , Min Hu , Pinghui Wang , Wangchun Sun , Lingyun Song , Hongbin Pei , Jun Liu , Youtian Du

Medical question answer (QA) assistants respond to lay users' health-related queries by synthesizing information from multiple sources using natural language processing and related techniques. They can serve as vital tools to alleviate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Prakash Chandra Sukhwal , Vaibhav Rajan , Atreyi Kankanhalli

One of the cardinal tasks in achieving robust medical question answering systems is textual entailment. The existing approaches make use of an ensemble of pre-trained language models or data augmentation, often to clock higher numbers on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Shweta Yadav , Vishal Pallagani , Amit Sheth

In spoken question answering, the systems are designed to answer questions from contiguous text spans within the related speech transcripts. However, the most natural way that human seek or test their knowledge is via human conversations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Chenyu You , Nuo Chen , Fenglin Liu , Shen Ge , Xian Wu , Yuexian Zou

Making the most use of abundant information in electronic health records (EHR) is rapidly becoming an important topic in the medical domain. Recent work presented a promising framework that embeds entire features in raw EHR data regardless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Eunbyeol Cho , Min Jae Lee , Kyunghoon Hur , Jiyoun Kim , Jinsung Yoon , Edward Choi

Extracting insights from Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases often requires SQL expertise, creating a barrier for clinical decision-making and research. A promising approach is to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hung Nguyen , Hans Moen , Pekka Marttinen

Query-focused tabular summarization is an emerging task in table-to-text generation that synthesizes a summary response from tabular data based on user queries. Traditional transformer-based approaches face challenges due to token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yasir Khan , Xinlei Wu , Sangpil Youm , Justin Ho , Aryaan Shaikh , Jairo Garciga , Rohan Sharma , Bonnie J. Dorr