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Embeddings of medical concepts such as medication, procedure and diagnosis codes in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are central to healthcare analytics. Previous work on medical concept embedding takes medical concepts and EMRs as words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xiangrui Cai , Jinyang Gao , Kee Yuan Ngiam , Beng Chin Ooi , Ying Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

The availability of a large amount of electronic health records (EHR) provides huge opportunities to improve health care service by mining these data. One important application is clinical endpoint prediction, which aims to predict whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Luchen Liu , Jianhao Shen , Ming Zhang , Zichang Wang , Jian Tang

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

Effective representation learning of electronic health records is a challenging task and is becoming more important as the availability of such data is becoming pervasive. The data contained in these records are irregular and contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sajad Darabi , Mohammad Kachuee , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Sentence embedding tasks are important in natural language processing (NLP), but improving their performance while keeping them reliable is still hard. This paper presents a framework that combines pseudo-label generation and model ensemble…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ziwei Liu , Qi Zhang , Lifu Gao

Clinical word embeddings are extensively used in various Bio-NLP problems as a state-of-the-art feature vector representation. Although they are quite successful at the semantic representation of words, due to the dataset - which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gizem Sogancioglu , Fabian Mijsters , Amar van Uden , Jelle Peperzak

Monitoring the health status of patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a critical aspect of providing superior care and treatment. The availability of large-scale electronic health records (EHR) provides machine learning models with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Jun Wu , Xuesong Ye , Chengjie Mou , Weinan Dai

The extraction and analysis of insights from medical data, primarily stored in free-text formats by healthcare workers, presents significant challenges due to its unstructured nature. Medical coding, a crucial process in healthcare, remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mikhail Kulyabin , Gleb Sokolov , Aleksandr Galaida , Andreas Maier , Tomas Arias-Vergara

Natural language processing (NLP) is utilized in a wide range of fields, where words in text are typically transformed into feature vectors called embeddings. BioConceptVec is a specific example of embeddings tailored for biology, trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hiroaki Yamagiwa , Ryoma Hashimoto , Kiwamu Arakane , Ken Murakami , Shou Soeda , Momose Oyama , Yihua Zhu , Mariko Okada , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Using class labels to represent class similarity is a typical approach to training deep hashing systems for retrieval; samples from the same or different classes take binary 1 or 0 similarity values. This similarity does not model the full…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Heikki Arponen , Tom E Bishop

Medication recommendation is a crucial task for assisting physicians in making timely decisions from longitudinal patient medical records. However, real-world EHR data present significant challenges due to the presence of rarely observed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yan Ting Chok , Soyon Park , Seungheun Baek , Hajung Kim , Junhyun Lee , Jaewoo Kang

Machine learning in healthcare requires effective representation of structured medical codes, but current methods face a trade off: knowledge graph based approaches capture formal relationships but miss real world patterns, while data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ahmed Elhussein , Paul Meddeb , Abigail Newbury , Jeanne Mirone , Martin Stoll , Gamze Gursoy

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

The use of large pretrained neural networks to create contextualized word embeddings has drastically improved performance on several natural language processing (NLP) tasks. These computationally expensive models have begun to be applied to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Benjamin Clavié , Kobi Gal

Disease risk prediction has attracted increasing attention in the field of modern healthcare, especially with the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Electronic health records (EHRs), which contain heterogeneous patient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shuai Niu , Qing Yin , Yunya Song , Yike Guo , Xian Yang

As hospitals move towards automating and integrating their computing systems, more fine-grained hospital operations data are becoming available. These data include hospital architectural drawings, logs of interactions between patients and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hankyu Jang , Sulyun Lee , D. M. Hasibul Hasan , Philip M. Polgreen , Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Bijaya Adhikari

Creating fully annotated labels for medical image segmentation is prohibitively time-intensive and costly, emphasizing the necessity for innovative approaches that minimize reliance on detailed annotations. Scribble annotations offer a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiao Zhang , Shaoxuan Wu , Peilin Zhang , Zhuo Jin , Xiaosong Xiong , Qirong Bu , Jingkun Chen , Jun Feng

In this paper we study the problem of predicting clinical diagnoses from textual Electronic Health Records (EHR) data. We show the importance of this problem in medical community and present comprehensive historical review of the problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Pavel Blinov , Manvel Avetisian , Vladimir Kokh , Dmitry Umerenkov , Alexander Tuzhilin

Clinical trials are essential for drug development but often suffer from expensive, inaccurate and insufficient patient recruitment. The core problem of patient-trial matching is to find qualified patients for a trial, where patient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xingyao Zhang , Cao Xiao , Lucas M. Glass , Jimeng Sun

The paper researches the problem of representation learning for electronic health records. We present the patient histories as temporal sequences of diseases for which embeddings are learned in an unsupervised setup with a transformer-based…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Pavel Blinov , Vladimir Kokh