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most citedEnhancing Clinical Concept Extraction with Contextual Embeddings

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cs.CR2020★ 1 cited

Privacy-Preserving Methods for Vertically Partitioned Incomplete Data

Yi Deng, Xiaoqian Jiang, Qi Long

Distributed health data networks that use information from multiple sources have drawn substantial interest in recent years. However, missing data are prevalent in such networks an…

cs.LG2020★ 250 cited

Deep Representation Learning of Patient Data from Electronic Health Records (EHR): A Systematic Review

Yuqi Si, Jingcheng Du, Zhao Li +5

Patient representation learning refers to learning a dense mathematical representation of a patient that encodes meaningful information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs). This…

cs.CL2020

Leveraging Spatial Information in Radiology Reports for Ischemic Stroke Phenotyping

Surabhi Datta, Shekhar Khanpara, Roy F. Riascos +1

Classifying fine-grained ischemic stroke phenotypes relies on identifying important clinical information. Radiology reports provide relevant information with context to determine s…

cs.AI2020★ 1 cited

Extracting Concepts for Precision Oncology from the Biomedical Literature

Nicholas Greenspan, Yuqi Si, Kirk Roberts

This paper describes an initial dataset and automatic natural language processing (NLP) method for extracting concepts related to precision oncology from biomedical research articl…

cs.CL2020

RadLex Normalization in Radiology Reports

Surabhi Datta, Jordan Godfrey-Stovall, Kirk Roberts

Radiology reports have been widely used for extraction of various clinically significant information about patients' imaging studies. However, limited research has focused on stand…

cs.IR2020★ 2 cited

Patient Cohort Retrieval using Transformer Language Models

Sarvesh Soni, Kirk Roberts

We apply deep learning-based language models to the task of patient cohort retrieval (CR) with the aim to assess their efficacy. The task of CR requires the extraction of relevant…

q-bio.QM2020★ 73 cited

Drug repurposing for COVID-19 using graph neural network and harmonizing multiple evidence

Kanglin Hsieh, Yinyin Wang, Luyao Chen +5

Amid the pandemic of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infected by SARS-CoV-2, a vast amount of drug research for prevention and treatment has been quickly conducted, but t…

stat.ME2020

Regression with a right-censored predictor, using inverse probability weighting methods

Roland A. Matsouaka, Folefac D. Atem

In a longitudinal study, measures of key variables might be incomplete or partially recorded due to drop-out, loss to follow-up, or early termination of the study occurring before…

cs.CL2020★ 68 cited

COVID-19 SignSym: a fast adaptation of a general clinical NLP tool to identify and normalize COVID-19 signs and symptoms to OMOP common data model

Jingqi Wang, Noor Abu-el-rub, Josh Gray +8

The COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world rapidly, infecting millions of people. An efficient tool that can accurately recognize important clinical concepts of COVID-19 from fre…

stat.ME2020★ 7 cited

An improved sample size calculation method for score tests in generalized linear models

Yongqiang Tang, Liang Zhu, Jiezhun Gu

Self and Mauritsen (1988) developed a sample size determination procedure for score tests in generalized linear models under contiguous alternatives. Its performance may deteriorat…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 1 cited

Mathematical Modeling of Business Reopening when Facing SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Protection, Cost and Risk

Hongyu Miao, Qianmiao Gao, Han Feng +11

The sudden onset of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has resulted in tremendous loss of human life and economy in more than 210 countries and territories around the world. Whi…

stat.AP2020★ 10 cited

BVAR-Connect: A Variational Bayes Approach to Multi-Subject Vector Autoregressive Models for Inference on Brain Connectivity Networks

Jeong Hwan Kook, Kelly A. Vaughn, Dana M. DeMaster +2

In this paper we propose BVAR-connect, a variational inference approach to a Bayesian multi-subject vector autoregressive (VAR) model for inference on effective brain connectivity…

cs.IT2020★ 1 cited

On the Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching Systems with Restricted Demand Types

Shuo Shao, Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó, Kai Zhang +1

Caching is a technique to reduce the communication load in peak hours by prefetching contents during off-peak hours. An information-theoretic framework for coded caching was introd…

cs.IR2020★ 30 cited

TREC-COVID: Constructing a Pandemic Information Retrieval Test Collection

Ellen Voorhees, Tasmeer Alam, Steven Bedrick +6

TREC-COVID is a community evaluation designed to build a test collection that captures the information needs of biomedical researchers using the scientific literature during a pand…

cs.CL2020★ 5 cited

Robustly Pre-trained Neural Model for Direct Temporal Relation Extraction

Hong Guan, Jianfu Li, Hua Xu +1

Background: Identifying relationships between clinical events and temporal expressions is a key challenge in meaningfully analyzing clinical text for use in advanced AI application…

stat.ME2020

Quantile regression on inactivity time

Lauren C. Balmert, Ruosha Li, Limin Peng +1

The inactivity time, or lost lifespan specifically for mortality data, concerns time from occurrence of an event of interest to the current time point and has recently emerged as a…

stat.ME2020★ 1 cited

Multiplicity for a Group Sequential Trial with Biomarker Subpopulations

Ting-Yu Chen, Jing Zhao, Linda Sun +1

Biomarker subpopulations have become increasingly important for drug development in targeted therapies. The use of biomarkers has the potential to facilitate more effective outcome…

cs.HC2020★ 9 cited

Examining Potential Usability and Health Beliefs Among Young Adults Using a Conversational Agent for HPV Vaccine Counseling

Muhammad Amith, Rebecca Lin, Rachel Cunningham +6

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is the most effective way to prevent HPV-related cancers. Integrating provider vaccine counseling is crucial to improving HPV vaccine complet…