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Objective: To pre-train fair and unbiased patient representations from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) using a novel weighted loss function that reduces bias and improves fairness in deep representation learning models. Methods: We defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Sonish Sivarajkumar , Yufei Huang , Yanshan Wang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become increasingly popular to support clinical decision-making and healthcare in recent decades. EHRs usually contain heterogeneous information, such as structural data in tabular form and unstructured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hejie Cui , Xinyu Fang , Ran Xu , Xuan Kan , Joyce C. Ho , Carl Yang

Information in electronic health records (EHR), such as clinical narratives, examination reports, lab measurements, demographics, and other patient encounter entries, can be transformed into appropriate data representations that can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Wei-Hung Weng , Peter Szolovits

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

Clinical notes in electronic health records contain highly heterogeneous writing styles, including non-standard terminology or abbreviations. Using these notes in predictive modeling has traditionally required preprocessing (e.g. taking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Jonas Kemp , Alvin Rajkomar , Andrew M. Dai

The breadth, scale, and temporal granularity of modern electronic health records (EHR) systems offers great potential for estimating personalized and contextual patient health trajectories using sequential deep learning. However, learning…

Drug representations have played an important role in cheminformatics. However, in the healthcare domain, drug representations have been underused relative to the rest of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, due to the complexity of high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Batuhan Bardak , Mehmet Tan

Distributed representations of medical concepts have been used to support downstream clinical tasks recently. Electronic Health Records (EHR) capture different aspects of patients' hospital encounters and serve as a rich source for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shaika Chowdhury , Chenwei Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Yuan Luo

In this work, we introduce the Multiple Embedding Model for EHR (MEME), an approach that serializes multimodal EHR tabular data into text using pseudo-notes, mimicking clinical text generation. This conversion not only preserves better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Simon A. Lee , Sujay Jain , Alex Chen , Kyoka Ono , Jennifer Fang , Akos Rudas , Jeffrey N. Chiang

In critical care, intensivists are required to continuously monitor high dimensional vital signs and lab measurements to detect and diagnose acute patient conditions. This has always been a challenging task. In this study, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Ziyuan Pan , Hao Du , Kee Yuan Ngiam , Fei Wang , Ping Shum , Mengling Feng

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

$\textbf{Objective}$ Develop an automatic diagnostic system which only uses textual admission information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and assist clinicians with a timely and statistically proved decision tool. The hope is that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Christy Li , Dimitris Konomis , Graham Neubig , Pengtao Xie , Carol Cheng , Eric Xing

Recent deep learning research based on Transformer model architectures has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance across a variety of domains and tasks, mostly within the computer vision and natural language processing domains. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Benjamin Shickel , Patrick J. Tighe , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

Background and Objective: Code assignment is of paramount importance in many levels in modern hospitals, from ensuring accurate billing process to creating a valid record of patient care history. However, the coding process is tedious and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Jinmiao Huang , Cesar Osorio , Luke Wicent Sy

Accurate Intensive Care Unit (ICU) outcome prediction is critical for improving patient treatment quality and ICU resource allocation. Existing research mainly focuses on structured data, e.g. demographics and vital signs, and lacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yucheng Ruan , Daniel J. Tan , See Kiong Ng , Ling Huang , Mengling Feng

In this paper, we address the challenge of patient-note identification, which involves accurately matching an anonymized clinical note to its corresponding patient, represented by a set of related notes. This task has broad applications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Safa Alsaidi , Marc Vincent , Olivia Boyer , Nicolas Garcelon , Miguel Couceiro , Adrien Coulet

We present RAM-EHR, a Retrieval AugMentation pipeline to improve clinical predictions on Electronic Health Records (EHRs). RAM-EHR first collects multiple knowledge sources, converts them into text format, and uses dense retrieval to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ran Xu , Wenqi Shi , Yue Yu , Yuchen Zhuang , Bowen Jin , May D. Wang , Joyce C. Ho , Carl Yang

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

Widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has fueled the development of using machine learning to build prediction models for various clinical outcomes. This process is often constrained by having a relatively small number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ethan Steinberg , Ken Jung , Jason A. Fries , Conor K. Corbin , Stephen R. Pfohl , Nigam H. Shah

Electronic Health Records (EHR) store clinical documentation as base64 encoded attachments in FHIR DocumentReference resources, which makes semantic question answering difficult. Traditional vector database methods often miss nuanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tarun Kumar Chawdhury , Jon D. Duke