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The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and subsequent increased availability of longitudinal healthcare data has led to significant advances in our understanding of health and disease with direct and immediate impact on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Simon Bing , Andrea Dittadi , Stefan Bauer , Patrick Schwab

Augmentation of disease diagnosis and decision-making in healthcare with machine learning algorithms is gaining much impetus in recent years. In particular, in the current epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19 pandemic, swift and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Leopold Franz , Yash Raj Shrestha , Bibek Paudel

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

Foundation models for time series are emerging as powerful general-purpose backbones, yet their potential for domain-specific biomedical signals such as electroencephalography (EEG) remains rather unexplored. In this work, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Théo Gnassounou , Yessin Moakher , Shifeng Xie , Vasilii Feofanov , Ievgen Redko

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) aggregate diverse information at the patient level, holding a trajectory representative of the evolution of the patient health status throughout time. Although this information provides context and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 João Figueira Silva , Sérgio Matos

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

Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been heavily used in modern healthcare systems for recording patients' admission information to hospitals. Many data-driven approaches employ temporal features in EHR for predicting specific diseases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Chang Lu , Chandan K. Reddy , Yue Ning

Foundation models (FMs) trained on electronic health records (EHRs) have shown strong performance on a range of clinical prediction tasks. However, adapting these models to local health systems remains challenging due to limited data…

Deep Learning based models are currently dominating most state-of-the-art solutions for disease prediction. Existing works employ RNNs along with multiple levels of attention mechanisms to provide interpretability. These deep learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-01 Subhadip Maji , Raghav Bali , Sree Harsha Ankem , Kishore V Ayyadevara

Motivation: Electronic health record (EHR) data provides a new venue to elucidate disease comorbidities and latent phenotypes for precision medicine. To fully exploit its potential, a realistic data generative process of the EHR data needs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Ziyang Song , Xavier Sumba Toral , Yixin Xu , Aihua Liu , Liming Guo , Guido Powell , Aman Verma , David Buckeridge , Ariane Marelli , Yue Li

We develop an unsupervised probabilistic model for heterogeneous Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. Utilizing a mixture model formulation, our approach directly models sequences of arbitrary length, such as medications and laboratory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Alan D. Kaplan , John D. Greene , Vincent X. Liu , Priyadip Ray

This study proposes a Transformer-based longitudinal modeling method to address challenges in clinical risk classification with heterogeneous Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, including irregular temporal patterns, large modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Anzhuo Xie , Wei-Chen Chang

Time series analysis is crucial in diverse scenarios. Beyond forecasting, considerable real-world tasks are categorized into classification, imputation, and anomaly detection, underscoring different capabilities termed time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Haoran Zhang , Yong Liu , Yunzhong Qiu , Haixuan Liu , Zhongyi Pei , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Learning from longitudinal electronic health records is limited if it does not capture the temporal trajectories of the patient's state in a clinical setting. Graph models allow us to capture the hidden dependencies of the multivariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Munib Mesinovic , Soheila Molaei , Peter Watkinson , Tingting Zhu

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

This study proposes a risk prediction method based on a Multi-Scale Temporal Alignment Network (MSTAN) to address the challenges of temporal irregularity, sampling interval differences, and multi-scale dynamic dependencies in Electronic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wei-Chen Chang , Lu Dai , Ting Xu

Structured Electronic Health Record (EHR) data stores patient information in relational tables and plays a central role in clinical decision-making. Recent advances have explored the use of large language models (LLMs) to process such data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiao Yang , Xuejiao Zhao , Zhiqi Shen

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

We propose an approach for adapting the DeBERTa model for electronic health record (EHR) tasks using domain adaptation. We pretrain a small DeBERTa model on a dataset consisting of MIMIC-III discharge summaries, clinical notes, radiology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Christopher McMaster , David FL Liew , Douglas EV Pires

Accurate disease trajectory prediction is critical for early intervention, resource allocation, and improving long-term outcomes. While electronic health records (EHRs) provide a rich longitudinal view of patient health in clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yunying Zhu , Andrew R Weckstein , Kueiyu Joshua Lin , Jie Yang