Medical knowledge infused convolutional neural networks for cohort selection in clinical trials.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: In this era of digitized health records, there has been a marked interest in using de-identified patient records for conducting various health related surveys. To assist in this research effort, we developed a novel clinical data representation model entitled medical knowledge-infused convolutional neural network (MKCNN), which is used for learning the clinical trial criteria eligibility status of patients to participate in cohort studies.

Authors

  • Chi-Jen Chen
    Graduate Institute of Data Science, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Neha Warikoo
    Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Yung-Chun Chang
    Graduate Institute of Data Science, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Jin-Hua Chen
    Graduate Institute of Data Science, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Wen-Lian Hsu
    Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.