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Objective: Electronic health records (EHR) data are prone to missingness and errors. Previously, we devised an "enriched" chart review protocol where a "roadmap" of auxiliary diagnoses (anchors) was used to recover missing values in EHR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sarah C. Lotspeich , Abbey Collins , Brian J. Wells , Ashish K. Khanna , Joseph Rigdon , Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

The widespread application of Electronic Health Records (EHR) data in the medical field has led to early successes in disease risk prediction using deep learning methods. These methods typically require extensive data for training due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shibo Li , Hengliang Cheng , Weihua Li

Clinical notes in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) capture rich temporal information on events, clinician reasoning, and lifestyle factors often missing from structured data. Leveraging them for predictive modeling can be impactful for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rochana Chaturvedi , Yue Zhou , Andrew D. Boyd , Brian T. Layden , Mudassir Rashid , Lu Cheng , Ali Cinar , Barbara Di Eugenio

With a neural sequence generation model, this study aims to develop a method of writing the patient clinical texts given a brief medical history. As a proof-of-a-concept, we have demonstrated that it can be workable to use medical concept…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Wangjin Lee , Hyeryun Park , Jooyoung Yoon , Kyeongmo Kim , Jinwook Choi

Integrating data from multiple heterogeneous sources has become increasingly popular to achieve a large sample size and diverse study population. This paper reviews development in causal inference methods that combines multiple datasets…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-05 Xu Shi , Ziyang Pan , Wang Miao

The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) enables the acquisition of heterogeneous clinical data, spanning lab tests, vital signs, medications, and procedures, which offer transformative potential for artificial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Mingcheng Zhu , Yu Liu , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a large volume of heterogeneous patient data, which are useful at the point of care and for retrospective research. These data are typically stored in relational databases. Gaining an integrated view…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Dina Levy-Lambert , Jen J. Gong , Tristan Naumann , Tom J. Pollard , John V. Guttag

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain extensive patient information that can inform downstream clinical decisions, such as mortality prediction, disease phenotyping, and disease onset prediction. A key challenge in EHR data analysis is…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-01 Xin Gai , Shiyi Jiang , Anru R. Zhang

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain valuable patient data for health-related prediction tasks, such as disease prediction. Traditional approaches rely on supervised learning methods that require large labeled datasets, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Hejie Cui , Zhuocheng Shen , Jieyu Zhang , Hui Shao , Lianhui Qin , Joyce C. Ho , Carl Yang

Violence risk assessment in psychiatric institutions enables interventions to avoid violence incidents. Clinical notes written by practitioners and available in electronic health records (EHR) are valuable resources that are seldom used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Pablo Mosteiro , Emil Rijcken , Kalliopi Zervanou , Uzay Kaymak , Floortje Scheepers , Marco Spruit

The aim of clinical effectiveness research using repositories of electronic health records is to identify what health interventions 'work best' in real-world settings. Since there are several reasons why the net benefit of intervention may…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-19 Jie Zhu , Blanca Gallego

This manuscript presents a methodical examination of the utilization of Artificial Intelligence in the assessment of emotions in texts related to healthcare, with a particular focus on the incorporation of Natural Language Processing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Prashant Kumar Nag , Amit Bhagat , R. Vishnu Priya , Deepak kumar Khare

Objective: Medical relations are the core components of medical knowledge graphs that are needed for healthcare artificial intelligence. However, the requirement of expert annotation by conventional algorithm development processes creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Yucong Lin , Keming Lu , Yulin Chen , Chuan Hong , Sheng Yu

Analyzing data from multiple sources offers valuable opportunities to improve the estimation efficiency of causal estimands. However, this analysis also poses many challenges due to population heterogeneity and data privacy constraints.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-23 Rong Zhao , Jason Falvey , Xu Shi , Vernon M. Chinchilli , Chixiang Chen

Electronic Health Records maintained in health care settings are a potential source of substantial clinical knowledge. The massive volume of data, unstructured nature of records and obligatory requirement of domain acquaintance together…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Gargi Priyadarshini , Ashish Anand

Predicting the patient's clinical outcome from the historical electronic medical records (EMR) is a fundamental research problem in medical informatics. Most deep learning-based solutions for EMR analysis concentrate on learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Liantao Ma , Chaohe Zhang , Yasha Wang , Wenjie Ruan , Jiantao Wang , Wen Tang , Xinyu Ma , Xin Gao , Junyi Gao

With the recent availability of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and great opportunities they offer for advancing medical informatics, there has been growing interest in mining EHR for improving quality of care. Disease diagnosis due to its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Anahita Hosseini , Ting Chen , Wenjun Wu , Yizhou Sun , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Health economic evaluations face the issues of non-compliance and missing data. Here, non-compliance is defined as non-adherence to a specific treatment, and occurs within randomised controlled trials (RCTs) when participants depart from…

Applications · Statistics 2019-02-26 Karla DiazOrdaz , Richard Grieve

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

Background: Electronic health records (EHRs) are a valuable resource for data-driven medical research. However, the presence of protected health information (PHI) makes EHRs unsuitable to be shared for research purposes. De-identification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aleksandar Kovačević , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević , Goran Nenadić