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The surging availability of electronic medical records (EHR) leads to increased research interests in medical predictive modeling. Recently many deep learning based predicted models are also developed for EHR data and demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Mengying Sun , Fengyi Tang , Jinfeng Yi , Fei Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Irregular time series, where data points are recorded at uneven intervals, are prevalent in healthcare settings, such as emergency wards where vital signs and laboratory results are captured at varying times. This variability, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Hrishikesh Patel , Ruihong Qiu , Adam Irwin , Shazia Sadiq , Sen Wang

Electroencephalography has been validated as an effective technique for detecting Parkinson's disease,particularly in its early stages.However,the high cost of EEG data annotation often results in limited dataset size and considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Qian Zhang , Ruilin Zhang , Jun Xiao , Yifan Liu , Zhe Wang

Cardiovascular disease, especially heart failure is one of the major health hazard issues of our time and is a leading cause of death worldwide. Advancement in data mining techniques using machine learning (ML) models is paving promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 S. M Mehedi Zaman , Wasay Mahmood Qureshi , Md. Mohsin Sarker Raihan , Ocean Monjur , Abdullah Bin Shams

The early prediction of sepsis in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is crucial for improving survival rates. However, the development of accurate predictive models is hampered by data fragmentation across healthcare institutions and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yue Chang , Guangsen Lin , Jyun Jie Chuang , Shunqi Liu , Xinkui Li , Yaozheng Li

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) enable deep learning for clinical predictions, but the optimal method for representing patient data remains unclear due to inconsistent evaluation practices. We present the first systematic benchmark to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tianyi Chen , Mingcheng Zhu , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu

Accurate prediction of cardiovascular diseases remains imperative for early diagnosis and intervention, necessitating robust and precise predictive models. Recently, there has been a growing interest in multi-modal learning for uncovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Francesco Girlanda , Olga Demler , Bjoern Menze , Neda Davoudi

The success of deep learning heavily depends on the availability of large labeled training sets. However, it is hard to get large labeled datasets in medical image domain because of the strict privacy concern and costly labeling efforts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Dewen Zeng , Yawen Wu , Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Haiyun Yuan , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang , Jingtong Hu , Yiyu Shi

The emergence of continuous health monitoring and the availability of an enormous amount of time series data has provided a great opportunity for the advancement of personal health tracking. In recent years, unsupervised learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Anahita Hosseini , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Pandemic outbreaks such as COVID-19 occur unexpectedly, and need immediate action due to their potential devastating consequences on global health. Point-of-care routine assessments such as electrocardiogram (ECG), can be used to develop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Weijie Sun , Sunil Vasu Kalmady , Nariman Sepehrvand , Luan Manh Chu , Zihan Wang , Amir Salimi , Abram Hindle , Russell Greiner , Padma Kaul

Vast quantities of person-generated health data (wearables) are collected but the process of annotating to feed to machine learning models is impractical. This paper discusses ways in which self-supervised approaches that use contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Kevalee Shah , Dimitris Spathis , Chi Ian Tang , Cecilia Mascolo

Predicting medical events in advance within critical care settings is paramount for patient outcomes and resource management. Utilizing predictive models, healthcare providers can anticipate issues such as cardiac arrest, sepsis, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Sachini Weerasekara , Sagar Kamarthi , Jacqueline Isaacs

Sepsis is a life threatening medical condition that occurs when the body has an extreme response to infection, leading to widespread inflammation, organ failure, and potentially death. Because sepsis can worsen rapidly, early detection is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Oyindolapo O. Komolafe , Zhimin Mei , David Morales Zarate , Gregory William Spangenberg

Advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) have shown that self-supervised pretraining on medical imaging data can provide a strong initialization for downstream supervised classification and segmentation. Given the difficulty of obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Gregory Holste , Evangelos K. Oikonomou , Bobak J. Mortazavi , Zhangyang Wang , Rohan Khera

The automated analysis of medical time series, such as the electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), pulse oximetry, etc, has the potential to serve as a valuable tool for diagnostic decisions, allowing for remote monitoring of…

Learning Electronic Health Records (EHRs) representation is a preeminent yet under-discovered research topic. It benefits various clinical decision support applications, e.g., medication outcome prediction or patient similarity search.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hao-Ren Yao , Nairen Cao , Katina Russell , Der-Chen Chang , Ophir Frieder , Jeremy Fineman

Effective learning from electronic health records (EHR) data for prediction of clinical outcomes is often challenging because of features recorded at irregular timesteps and loss to follow-up as well as competing events such as death or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Intae Moon , Stefan Groha , Alexander Gusev

Early identification of patients at risk for clinical deterioration in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains a critical challenge. Delayed recognition of impending adverse events, including mortality, vasopressor initiation, and mechanical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Binesh Sadanandan

Recent advances in deep learning architectures for sequence modeling have not fully transferred to tasks handling time-series from electronic health records. In particular, in problems related to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rita Kuznetsova , Alizée Pace , Manuel Burger , Hugo Yèche , Gunnar Rätsch

Contrastive representation learning is crucial in medical time series analysis as it alleviates dependency on labor-intensive, domain-specific, and scarce expert annotations. However, existing contrastive learning methods primarily focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yihe Wang , Yu Han , Haishuai Wang , Xiang Zhang