Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Clinical notes contain valuable information for research and monitoring quality of care. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the process for identifying relevant pieces of information such as diagnoses, treatments, side effects, etc., and bring them to...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Defacing of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is a crucial process in medical imaging research aimed at preserving patient privacy while maintaining data integrity. However, existing defacing algorithms are prone to errors, potentially com...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
To extract information from free-text in clinical records due to the patient's protected health information PHI in the records pre-processing of de-identification is required. Therefore we aimed to identify PHI list and fine-tune the deep learning BE...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 25, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Neural network deidentification studies have focused on individual datasets. These studies assume the availability of a sufficient amount of human-annotated data to train models that can generalize to corresponding test data. In real-world...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to develop a fully automated method of generating synthetic data from a real dataset that could be employed by medical organizations to distribute health data to researchers, reducing the need for access to real data. We h...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: We introduce fold-stratified cross-validation, a validation methodology that is compatible with privacy-preserving federated learning and that prevents data leakage caused by duplicates of electronic health records (EHRs).
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: In this work, we introduce a privacy technique for anonymizing clinical notes that guarantees all private health information is secured (including sensitive data, such as family history, that are not adequately covered by current technique...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Electronic medical records (EMRs) can support medical research and discovery, but privacy risks limit the sharing of such data on a wide scale. Various approaches have been developed to mitigate risk, including record simulation via genera...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Clinical corpora can be deidentified using a combination of machine-learned automated taggers and hiding in plain sight (HIPS) resynthesis. The latter replaces detected personally identifiable information (PII) with random surrogates, allo...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Sep 3, 2019
One of the major obstacles for research on German medical reports is the lack of de-identified medical corpora. Previous de-identification tasks focused on non-German medical texts, which raised the demand for an in-depth evaluation of de-identificat...
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