Cohort selection for clinical trials using hierarchical neural network.

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

OBJECTIVE: Cohort selection for clinical trials is a key step for clinical research. We proposed a hierarchical neural network to determine whether a patient satisfied selection criteria or not.

Authors

  • Ying Xiong
    Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.
  • Xue Shi
    Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.
  • Shuai Chen
    State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
  • Dehuan Jiang
    Key Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Harbin Institute of Tech-nology, Shenzhen, China.
  • Buzhou Tang
  • Xiaolong Wang
    Cardiovascular Department, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of TCM Shanghai, China.
  • Qingcai Chen
    Key Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
  • Jun Yan
    Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.