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Health care is one of the most exciting frontiers in data mining and machine learning. Successful adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) created an explosion in digital clinical data available for analysis, but progress in machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-13 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Hrant Khachatrian , David C. Kale , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain essential data for patient care and clinical research. With the diversity of structured and unstructured data in EHR, data visualization is an invaluable tool for managing and explaining these…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Haodi Zhang , Siqi Ning , Qiyong Zheng , Jinyin Nie , Liangjie Zhang , Weicheng Wang , Yuanfeng Song

Electronic Health Record (EHR) tables pose unique challenges among which is the presence of hidden contextual dependencies between medical features with a high level of data dimensionality and sparsity. This study presents the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jesus Lovon , Martin Mouysset , Jo Oleiwan , Jose G. Moreno , Christine Damase-Michel , Lynda Tamine

We present GR-NLP-TOOLKIT, an open-source natural language processing (NLP) toolkit developed specifically for modern Greek. The toolkit provides state-of-the-art performance in five core NLP tasks, namely part-of-speech tagging,…

Background: Electronic health record (EHR) notes contain abundant medical jargon that can be difficult for patients to comprehend. One way to help patients is to reduce information overload and help them focus on medical terms that matter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Jinying Chen , Hong Yu

The wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has enabled a wide range of applications leveraging EHR data. However, the meaningful use of EHR data largely depends on our ability to efficiently extract and consolidate information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yanshan Wang , Naveed Afzal , Sunyang Fu , Liwei Wang , Feichen Shen , Majid Rastegar-Mojarad , Hongfang Liu

Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of artificial intelligence that applies information technologies to process the human language, understand it to a certain degree, and use it in various applications. This area has rapidly…

Clinical documentation and data retrieval within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contribute substantially to clinician workload and burnout. To address this, we developed Scout, an LLM-based EHR search and synthesis platform that enables…

The adoption of digital systems in healthcare has resulted in the accumulation of vast electronic health records (EHRs), offering valuable data for machine learning methods to predict patient health outcomes. However, single-visit records…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Eric Yang , Pengfei Hu , Xiaoxue Han , Yue Ning

We present a new text-to-SQL dataset for electronic health records (EHRs). The utterances were collected from 222 hospital staff members, including physicians, nurses, and insurance review and health records teams. To construct the QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Gyubok Lee , Hyeonji Hwang , Seongsu Bae , Yeonsu Kwon , Woncheol Shin , Seongjun Yang , Minjoon Seo , Jong-Yeup Kim , Edward Choi

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are pivotal in clinical practices, yet their retrieval remains a challenge mainly due to semantic gap issues. Recent advancements in dense retrieval offer promising solutions but existing models, both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zhengyun Zhao , Huaiyuan Ying , Yue Zhong , Sheng Yu

Learning electronic health records (EHRs) has received emerging attention because of its capability to facilitate accurate medical diagnosis. Since the EHRs contain enriched information specifying complex interactions between entities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tsai Hor Chan , Guosheng Yin , Kyongtae Bae , Lequan Yu

Objective: This review aims to analyze the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques in cancer research using electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical notes. This review addresses gaps in the existing literature by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Muhammad Bilal , Ameer Hamza , Nadia Malik

Clinical notes in Electronic Health Records (EHR) present rich documented information of patients to inference phenotype for disease diagnosis and study patient characteristics for cohort selection. Unsupervised user embedding aims to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xiaolei Huang , Franck Dernoncourt , Mark Dredze

The data available in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provides the opportunity to transform care, and the best way to provide better care for one patient is through learning from the data available on all other patients. Temporal modelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zeljko Kraljevic , Anthony Shek , Daniel Bean , Rebecca Bendayan , James Teo , Richard Dobson

The extraction of phenotype information which is naturally contained in electronic health records (EHRs) has been found to be useful in various clinical informatics applications such as disease diagnosis. However, due to imprecise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jingqing Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Kai Sun , Xian Yang , Chengliang Dai , Yike Guo

Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems often make use of machine learning techniques that are unfamiliar to end-users who are interested in analyzing clinical records. Although NLP has been widely used in extracting information from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Gaurav Trivedi , Phuong Pham , Wendy Chapman , Rebecca Hwa , Janyce Wiebe , Harry Hochheiser

In this paper, we introduce EHR-SeqSQL, a novel sequential text-to-SQL dataset for Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases. EHR-SeqSQL is designed to address critical yet underexplored aspects in text-to-SQL parsing: interactivity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Jaehee Ryu , Seonhee Cho , Gyubok Lee , Edward Choi

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

Advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have the potential to transform HR processes, from recruitment to employee management. While recent breakthroughs in NLP have generated significant interest in its industrial applications, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Naoki Otani , Nikita Bhutani , Estevam Hruschka