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Effective clinical history taking is a foundational yet underexplored component of clinical reasoning. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise on static benchmarks, they often fall short in dynamic, multi-turn diagnostic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yang Zhou , Zhenting Sheng , Mingrui Tan , Yuting Song , Jun Zhou , Yu Heng Kwan , Lian Leng Low , Yang Bai , Yong Liu

We present RAM-EHR, a Retrieval AugMentation pipeline to improve clinical predictions on Electronic Health Records (EHRs). RAM-EHR first collects multiple knowledge sources, converts them into text format, and uses dense retrieval to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ran Xu , Wenqi Shi , Yue Yu , Yuchen Zhuang , Bowen Jin , May D. Wang , Joyce C. Ho , Carl Yang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in clinical text summarization, but their ability to handle long patient trajectories with multi-modal data spread across time remains underexplored. This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Maya Kruse , Shiyue Hu , Nicholas Derby , Yifu Wu , Samantha Stonbraker , Bingsheng Yao , Dakuo Wang , Elizabeth Goldberg , Yanjun Gao

A timeline provides a total ordering of events and times, and is useful for a number of natural language understanding tasks. However, qualitative temporal graphs that can be derived directly from text -- such as TimeML annotations --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Mustafa Ocal , Ning Xie , Mark Finlayson

This paper studies causal discovery in irregularly sampled time series-a key challenge in risk-sensitive domains like finance, healthcare, and climate science, where missing data and inconsistent sampling frequencies distort causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weihong Li , Baohong Li , Anpeng Wu , Zhihan Li , Ming Ma , Keting Yin , Kun Kuang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich, longitudinal patient information across structured (e.g., labs, vitals, and imaging) and unstructured (e.g., clinical notes) modalities. While deep learning models such as RNNs and Transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Al Olaimat , Shaika Chowdhury , Serdar Bozdag

Electronic Health Records (EHR) contain valuable clinical information for predicting patient outcomes and guiding healthcare decisions. However, effectively modeling Electronic Health Records (EHRs) requires addressing data heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Junhan Yu , Zhunyi Feng , Junwei Lu , Tianxi Cai , Doudou Zhou

In realistic scenarios, multivariate timeseries evolve over case-by-case time-scales. This is particularly clear in medicine, where the rate of clinical events varies by ward, patient, and application. Increasingly complex models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Jacob Deasy , Ari Ercole , Pietro Liò

Clinical risk prediction using electronic health records (EHRs) is vital to facilitate timely interventions and clinical decision support. However, modeling heterogeneous and irregular temporal EHR data presents significant challenges. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Kun-Wei Lin , Yu-Chen Kuo , Hsin-Yao Wang , Yi-Ju Tseng

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

Deep-learning-based clinical decision support using structured electronic health records (EHR) has been an active research area for predicting risks of mortality and diseases. Meanwhile, large amounts of narrative clinical notes provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Weimin Lyu , Xinyu Dong , Rachel Wong , Songzhu Zheng , Kayley Abell-Hart , Fusheng Wang , Chao Chen

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

Electronic Health Records are large repositories of valuable clinical data, with a significant portion stored in unstructured text format. This textual data includes clinical events (e.g., disorders, symptoms, findings, medications and…

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Accelerated MRI reconstructs images of clinical anatomies from sparsely sampled signal data to reduce patient scan times. While recent works have leveraged deep learning to accomplish this task, such approaches have often only been explored…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Michael S. Yao , Michael S. Hansen

This study presents a fully automated methodology for early prediction studies in clinical settings, leveraging information extracted from unstructured discharge reports. The proposed pipeline uses discharge reports to support the three…

Patient-trial matching requires reasoning over long, heterogeneous electronic health records (EHRs) and complex eligibility criteria, posing significant challenges for scalability, generalization, and computational efficiency. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiaodi Li , Yang Xiao , Munhwan Lee , Konstantinos Leventakos , Young J. Juhn , David Jones , Terence T. Sio , Wei Liu , Maria Vassilaki , Nansu Zong

Large-language models have recently demonstrated impressive zero-shot capabilities in a variety of natural language tasks such as summarization, dialogue generation, and question-answering. Despite many promising applications in clinical…

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as promising tools for assisting in medical tasks, yet processing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) presents unique challenges due to their longitudinal nature. While LLMs' capabilities to perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hejie Cui , Alyssa Unell , Bowen Chen , Jason Alan Fries , Emily Alsentzer , Sanmi Koyejo , Nigam Shah

Objectives: We aim to dynamically retrieve informative demonstrations, enhancing in-context learning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for disease classification. Methods: We propose a Retrieval-Augmented In-Context Learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zaifu Zhan , Shuang Zhou , Xiaoshan Zhou , Yongkang Xiao , Jun Wang , Jiawen Deng , He Zhu , Yu Hou , Rui Zhang

Electronic health record (EHR) systems present clinicians with vast repositories of clinical information, creating a significant cognitive burden where critical details are easily overlooked. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer…

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