About this Research Topic
This Research Topic focuses on mining data and discovering knowledge from EHRs for medical research. It may require development of new, or application of existing, methods in biostatistics, machine learning, and natural language processing.
We invite submissions of both novel methodological and application papers for data mining and knowledge discovery from EHRs. Attention is given to (1) hybrid approaches that combine state-of-the-art statistical, machine learning, and/or natural language processing techniques; and (2) methods that exploit both structured data and clinical notes in EHRs and external sources of clinical knowledge. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
• Health data analytics
• Cohort identification
• Clinical prediction
• Disease phenotyping
• Symptom extraction
• Drug effectiveness and interaction
• Treatment regimen learning
• Clinical information extraction
• Clinical embeddings
We also welcome papers that deal with the limitations of EHRs to improve medical research on EHRs, e.g. missing data or data biases.
Keywords: clinical information extraction, clinical prediction, phenotyping, treatment regimen, data imputation, data bias, biostatistics, machine learning, natural language processing
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