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Participant recruitment based on unstructured medical texts such as clinical notes and radiology reports has been a challenging yet important task for the cohort establishment in clinical research. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zihan Guan , Zihao Wu , Zhengliang Liu , Dufan Wu , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Ninghao Liu

Clinical trials are a critical component of evaluating the effectiveness of new medical interventions and driving advancements in medical research. Therefore, timely enrollment of patients is crucial to prevent delays or premature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Georgios Peikos , Symeon Symeonidis , Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are stored in relational databases. It can be challenging to access the required information if the user is unfamiliar with the database schema or general database fundamentals. Hence, researchers have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Richard Tarbell , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Glenn Dietrich , Anthony Rios

Accurate prediction of clinical outcomes using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is critical for early intervention, efficient resource allocation, and improved patient care. EHRs contain multimodal data, including both structured data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Rituparna Datta , Jiaming Cui , Zihan Guan , Vishal G. Reddy , Joshua C. Eby , Gregory Madden , Rupesh Silwal , Anil Vullikanti

Deep learning models have demonstrated superior performance in various healthcare applications. However, the major limitation of these deep models is usually the lack of high-quality training data due to the private and sensitive nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Qiuhao Lu , Dejing Dou , Thien Huu Nguyen

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have played a significant role in reducing human workload across various domains, a trend that is increasingly extending into the medical field. In this paper, we propose an automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Kyomin Hwang , Nojun Kwak

In this paper, we introduce EHR-SeqSQL, a novel sequential text-to-SQL dataset for Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases. EHR-SeqSQL is designed to address critical yet underexplored aspects in text-to-SQL parsing: interactivity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Jaehee Ryu , Seonhee Cho , Gyubok Lee , Edward Choi

Electronic medical records (EMR) contain comprehensive patient information and are typically stored in a relational database with multiple tables. Effective and efficient patient information retrieval from EMR data is a challenging task for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Ping Wang , Tian Shi , Chandan K. Reddy

Electronic health records (EHRs) form an invaluable resource for training clinical decision support systems. To leverage the potential of such systems in high-risk applications, we need large, structured tabular datasets on which we can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Paloma Rabaey , Adrick Tench , Stefan Heytens , Thomas Demeester

The paper presents a systematic review of state-of-the-art approaches to identify patient cohorts using electronic health records. It gives a comprehensive overview of the most commonly de-tected phenotypes and its underlying data sets.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-25 Norman Hiob , Stefan Lessmann

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are relational databases that store the entire medical histories of patients within hospitals. They record numerous aspects of patients' medical care, from hospital admission and diagnosis to treatment and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Gyubok Lee , Sunjun Kweon , Seongsu Bae , Edward Choi

Electronic health records (EHRs) are invaluable for clinical research, yet privacy concerns severely restrict data sharing. Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution, but EHRs present unique challenges: they contain both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shaonan Liu , Yuichiro Iwashita , Soichiro Nakako , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

Electronic health records (EHR) contain extensive structured and unstructured data, including tabular information and free-text clinical notes. Querying relevant patient information often requires complex database operations, increasing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengliang ZHang

Large language models (LLMs), including zero-shot and few-shot paradigms, have shown promising capabilities in clinical text generation. However, real-world applications face two key challenges: (1) patient data is highly unstructured,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Garapati Keerthana , Manik Gupta

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

Manual chart review remains an extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive component of clinical research, requiring experts to extract often complex information from unstructured electronic health record (EHR) narratives. We present a…

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide rich longitudinal clinical evidence that is central to medical decision-making, motivating the use of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to ground large language model (LLM) predictions. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Lang Cao , Qingyu Chen , Yue Guo

This paper presents our approach to the EHRSQL-2024 shared task, which aims to develop a reliable Text-to-SQL system for electronic health records. We propose two approaches that leverage large language models (LLMs) for prompting and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Satya K Gundabathula , Sriram R Kolar

High quality SQL corpus is essential for intelligent database. For example, Text-to-SQL requires SQL queries and correspond natural language questions as training samples. However, collecting such query corpus remains challenging in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiahui Li , Tongwang Wu , Yuren Mao , Yunjun Gao , Yajie Feng , Huaizhong Liu

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhimeng Luo , Abhibha Gupta , Adam Frisch , Daqing He