De-identification, identifying and removing all protected health information (PHI) present in clinical data including electronic medical records (EMRs), is a critical step in making clinical data publicly available. The 2014 i2b2 (Center of Informati...
The 2014 i2b2/UTHealth natural language processing shared task featured a track focused on identifying risk factors for heart disease (specifically, Cardiac Artery Disease) in clinical narratives. For this track, we used a "light" annotation paradigm...
Perspectives in health information management
Jan 1, 2015
OBJECTIVES: We introduce and evaluate a new, easily accessible tool using a common statistical analysis and business analytics software suite, SAS, which can be programmed to remove specific protected health information (PHI) from a text document. Re...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Real-world data (RWD) obtained from electronic medical records has become a valuable resource for healthcare research. However, integrating unstructured free-text clinical data remains a significant challenge. Although natural language processing (NL...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
This study addresses privacy concerns in multi-institutional data sharing by applying federated learning (FL) to develop a predictive model for prolonged air leaks (PAL) following video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Utilizing standardized el...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Automated data extraction from echocardiography reports could facilitate large-scale registry creation and clinical surveillance of valvular heart diseases (VHD). We evaluated the performance of open-source large language models (LLMs) gu...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Increased incorporation of artificial intelligence in medicine has raised questions regarding how it can enhance efficiency in concert with providing accurate medical information without violating patient privacy. Pediatricians sho...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study explores the utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) to support finding rare patient record details that could make a patient identifiable. Whilst most research has focused on what we call direct patient identifiers, indirect patient ident...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Integrating deep learning into clinical workflows for medical image analysis holds promise for improving diagnostic accuracy. However, strict data privacy regulations and the sensitivity of clinical IT infrastructure limit the deployment of cloud-bas...
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
May 5, 2025
There is an urgent need to develop tools to enable older adults to live healthy, independent lives for as long as possible. To address this need, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITCs) for...
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