2019
Discovery of Noncancer Drug Effects on Survival in Electronic Health Records of Patients With Cancer: A New Paradigm for Drug Repurposing
Wu Y, Warner J, Wang L, Jiang M, Xu J, Chen Q, Nian H, Dai Q, Du X, Yang P, Denny J, Liu H, Xu H. Discovery of Noncancer Drug Effects on Survival in Electronic Health Records of Patients With Cancer: A New Paradigm for Drug Repurposing. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 2019, 3: cci.19.00001. PMID: 31141421, PMCID: PMC6693869, DOI: 10.1200/cci.19.00001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsClinical Trials as TopicData MiningDrug DevelopmentDrug RepositioningElectronic Health RecordsHumansNeoplasmsPrognosisRegistriesReproducibility of ResultsTreatment OutcomeConceptsVanderbilt University Medical CenterCancer survivalMayo ClinicDrug repurposingNoncancer drugsElectronic health record dataCancer registry dataEHR dataClinical trial evaluationOverall cancer survivalUniversity Medical CenterHealth record dataElectronic health recordsTreatment of cancerClinical trialsDrug classesRegistry dataMedical CenterDrug effectsSignificant associationLongitudinal EHRNew indicationsPatientsCancerHealth records
2018
A study of generalizability of recurrent neural network-based predictive models for heart failure onset risk using a large and heterogeneous EHR data set
Rasmy L, Wu Y, Wang N, Geng X, Zheng W, Wang F, Wu H, Xu H, Zhi D. A study of generalizability of recurrent neural network-based predictive models for heart failure onset risk using a large and heterogeneous EHR data set. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2018, 84: 11-16. PMID: 29908902, PMCID: PMC6076336, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.06.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRecurrent neural networkOnset riskCapability of RNNCerner Health FactsHeterogeneous EHR dataHeart failure patientsData setsElectronic health record dataDeep learning modelsDifferent patient populationsNeural network-based predictive modelDifferent patient groupsHealth record dataEHR data setsPredictive modelingSmall data setsFailure patientsPatient groupPatient populationReduction of AUCNeural networkRNN modelRETAIN modelHealth FactsHospital
2013
Recognizing clinical entities in hospital discharge summaries using Structural Support Vector Machines with word representation features
Tang B, Cao H, Wu Y, Jiang M, Xu H. Recognizing clinical entities in hospital discharge summaries using Structural Support Vector Machines with word representation features. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2013, 13: s1. PMID: 23566040, PMCID: PMC3618243, DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-s1-s1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStructural support vector machineWord representation featuresClinical NER tasksConditional Random FieldsSupport vector machinePerformance of MLClinical NER systemMachine learningRepresentation featuresNER systemNER taskVector machineEntity recognitionNatural language processing researchSequential labeling algorithmClinical entity recognitionLarge margin theoryClinical text processingLanguage processing researchPerformance of CRFsHighest F-measureClinical NLP researchI2b2 NLP challengeSame feature setsBetter performance
2012
Recognition of medication information from discharge summaries using ensembles of classifiers
Doan S, Collier N, Xu H, Duy P, Phuong T. Recognition of medication information from discharge summaries using ensembles of classifiers. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2012, 12: 36. PMID: 22564405, PMCID: PMC3502425, DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-36.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceDecision Support TechniquesFemaleHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalInstitutional Management TeamsMaleMedication SystemsNatural Language ProcessingPatient DischargePattern Recognition, AutomatedPharmaceutical PreparationsReproducibility of ResultsSemanticsSoftware DesignSupport Vector MachineConceptsConditional Random FieldsNatural language processingClinical natural language processingSupport vector machineBest F-scoreEnsemble classifierF-scoreClinical textIndividual classifiersVoting methodMajority votingLocal support vector machineSupervised machine learning methodsClinical entity recognitionClinical NLP systemsDifferent voting strategiesEntity recognition systemRule-based systemEnsemble of classifiersMachine learning methodsRule-based methodI2b2 NLP challengeEntity recognitionRecognition systemNLP systems