AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Pediatric sepsis imposes a significant burden of morbidity and mortality among children. While the speedy application of existing supportive care measures can substantially improve outcomes, further improvements in delivering that care require tools ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of mortality. Accurately monitoring HF progress and adjusting therapies are critical for improving patient outcomes. An experienced cardiologist can make accurate HF stage diagnoses based on combination of symptoms...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Chronic diabetes can lead to microvascular complications, including diabetic eye disease, diabetic kidney disease, and diabetic neuropathy. However, the long-term complications often remain undetected at the early stages of diagnosis. Developing a ma...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Despite impressive success of machine learning algorithms in clinical natural language processing (cNLP), rule-based approaches still have a prominent role. In this paper, we introduce medspaCy, an extensible, open-source cNLP library based on spaCy ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Inaccurate body weight measures can cause critical safety events in clinical settings as well as hindering utilization of clinical data for retrospective research. This study focused on developing a machine learning-based automated weight abnormality...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Analysing electrocardiograms (ECGs) is an inexpensive and non-invasive, yet powerful way to diagnose heart disease. ECG studies using Machine Learning to automatically detect abnormal heartbeats so far depend on large, manually annotated datasets. Wh...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
The adoption of best practices has been shown to increase performance in healthcare institutions and is consistently demanded by both patients, payers, and external overseers. Nevertheless, transferring practices between healthcare organizations is a...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Mental illness, a serious problem across the globe, requires multi-pronged solutions including effective computational models to predict illness. Mental illness diagnosis is complicated by the pronounced sharing of symptoms and mutual pre-disposition...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Advancing diagnostic testing capabilities such as clinical next generation sequencing methods offer the potential to diagnose, risk stratify, and guide specialized treatment, but must be balanced against the escalating costs of healthcare to identify...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Unhealthy alcohol use represents a major economic burden and cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Implementation of interventions for unhealthy alcohol use depends on the availability and accuracy of screening tools. Our group previ...