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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…

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The processing of entities in natural language is essential to many medical NLP systems. Unfortunately, existing datasets vastly under-represent the entities required to model public health relevant texts such as health advice often found…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Joseph Gatto , Parker Seegmiller , Garrett Johnston , Sarah M. Preum

The extraction of relevant data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is crucial to identifying symptoms and automating epidemiological surveillance processes. By harnessing the vast amount of unstructured text in EHRs, we can detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Juliano Genari , Guilherme Tegoni Goedert

The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important component of many natural language processing systems, such as relation extraction and knowledge graph construction. In this work, we present a simple and effective approach for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Urchade Zaratiana , Pierre Holat , Nadi Tomeh , Thierry Charnois

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown transformative potential in medical applications, yet their performance is hindered by conventional data curation strategies that rely on coarse-grained partitioning by modality or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jianghang Lin , Haihua Yang , Deli Yu , Kai Wu , Kai Ye , Jinghao Lin , Zihan Wang , Yuhang Wu , Liujuan Cao

Relying on large pretrained language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for encoding and adding a simple prediction layer has led to impressive performance in many clinical natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 John Pougue Biyong , Bo Wang , Terry Lyons , Alejo J Nevado-Holgado

BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a recently introduced language representation model based upon the transfer learning paradigm. We extend its fine-tuning procedure to address one of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the digital representation of a patient's medical history, are a valuable resource for epidemiological and clinical research. They are also becoming increasingly complex, with recent trends indicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rachael DeVries , Casper Christensen , Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza , Ole Winther

Electronic Health Records have become popular sources of data for secondary research, but their use is hampered by the amount of effort it takes to overcome the sparsity, irregularity, and noise that they contain. Modern learning…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-28 Jacek M. Bajor , Diego A. Mesa , Travis J. Osterman , Thomas A. Lasko

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

Deep-learning-based clinical decision support using structured electronic health records (EHR) has been an active research area for predicting risks of mortality and diseases. Meanwhile, large amounts of narrative clinical notes provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Weimin Lyu , Xinyu Dong , Rachel Wong , Songzhu Zheng , Kayley Abell-Hart , Fusheng Wang , Chao Chen

In the past decade, with the development of big data technology, an increasing amount of patient information has been stored as electronic health records (EHRs). Leveraging these data, various doctor recommendation systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Luning Bi , Yunlong Wang , Fan Zhang , Zhuqing Liu , Yong Cai , Emily Zhao

The wide implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems facilitates the collection of large-scale health data from real clinical settings. Despite the significant increase in adoption of EHR systems, this data remains largely…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-26 Jinghe Zhang , Kamran Kowsari , James H. Harrison , Jennifer M. Lobo , Laura E. Barnes

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…

Biomedical documents such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a large amount of information in an unstructured format. The data in EHRs is a hugely valuable resource documenting clinical narratives and decisions, but whilst the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zeljko Kraljevic , Daniel Bean , Aurelie Mascio , Lukasz Roguski , Amos Folarin , Angus Roberts , Rebecca Bendayan , Richard Dobson

In electronic health record (EHR) mining, learning high-quality representations of medical concepts (e.g., standardized diagnosis, medication, and procedure codes) is fundamental for downstream clinical prediction. However, ro bust concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi , Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam , Chen Chen , Dongjie Wang , Zijun Yao

Augmentation of disease diagnosis and decision-making in healthcare with machine learning algorithms is gaining much impetus in recent years. In particular, in the current epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19 pandemic, swift and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Leopold Franz , Yash Raj Shrestha , Bibek Paudel

Background : Knowledge is evolving over time, often as a result of new discoveries or changes in the adopted methods of reasoning. Also, new facts or evidence may become available, leading to new understandings of complex phenomena. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ayoub Harnoune , Maryem Rhanoui , Mounia Mikram , Siham Yousfi , Zineb Elkaimbillah , Bouchra El Asri

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

The rapid growth of electronic health record (EHR) datasets opens up promising opportunities to understand human diseases in a systematic way. However, effective extraction of clinical knowledge from the EHR data has been hindered by its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yuesong Zou , Ahmad Pesaranghader , Aman Verma , David Buckeridge , Yue Li