AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Apr 29, 2023
A gold standard annotated corpus is usually indispensable when developing natural language processing (NLP) systems. Building a high-quality annotated corpus for clinical NLP requires considerable time and domain expertise during the annotation proce...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDoH) have important roles in shaping people's health. In clinical research studies, especially comparative effectiveness studies, failure to adjust for SBDoH factors will potentially cause confounding i...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Diagnosis prediction aims to predict the patient's future diagnosis based on their Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Most existing works adopt recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to model the sequential EHR data. However, they mainly utilize medical cod...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Current COVID-19 predictive models primarily focus on predicting the risk of mortality, and rely on COVID-19 specific medical data such as chest imaging after COVID-19 diagnosis. In this project, we developed an innovative supervised machine learning...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Machine learning models that utilize patient data across time (rather than just the most recent measurements) have increased performance for many risk stratification tasks in the intensive care unit. However, many of these models and their learned re...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
The persistence and emergence of new multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) strains continues to advance the devastating tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Robust systems are needed to accurately and rapidly perform drug-resistance profilin...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
In this study we seek to determine the efficacy of using automated mapping methods to reduce the manual mapping burden of laboratory data to LOINC(r) on a nationwide electronic health record derived oncology specific dataset. We developed novel encod...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
During the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), social media platforms such as Twitter have become a venue for individuals, health professionals, and government agencies to share COVID-19 information. Twitter has been a popular source of data for...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Deep brain stimulation is a complex movement disorder intervention that requires highly invasive brain surgery. Clinicians struggle to predict how patients will respond to this treatment. To address this problem, we are working toward developing a cl...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
To date, there have been 180 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, with more than 3.8 million deaths, reported to WHO worldwide. In this paper we address the problem of understanding the host genome's influence, in concert with clinical variables, on ...