2021
Privacy-protecting, reliable response data discovery using COVID-19 patient observations
Kim J, Neumann L, Paul P, Day M, Aratow M, Bell D, Doctor J, Hinske L, Jiang X, Kim K, Matheny M, Meeker D, Pletcher M, Schilling L, SooHoo S, Xu H, Zheng K, Ohno-Machado L, Anderson D, Anderson N, Balacha C, Bath T, Baxter S, Becker-Pennrich A, Bernstam E, Carter W, Chau N, Choi Y, Covington S, DuVall S, El-Kareh R, Florian R, Follett R, Geisler B, Ghigi A, Gottlieb A, Hu Z, Ir D, Knight T, Koola J, Kuo T, Lee N, Mansmann U, Mou Z, Murphy R, Neumann L, Nguyen N, Niedermayer S, Park E, Perkins A, Post K, Rieder C, Scherer C, Soares A, Soysal E, Tep B, Toy B, Wang B, Wu Z, Zhou Y, Zucker R. Privacy-protecting, reliable response data discovery using COVID-19 patient observations. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1765-1776. PMID: 34051088, PMCID: PMC8194878, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab054.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
EXpectation Propagation LOgistic REgRession on permissioned blockCHAIN (ExplorerChain): decentralized online healthcare/genomics predictive model learning
Kuo T, Gabriel R, Cidambi K, Ohno-Machado L. EXpectation Propagation LOgistic REgRession on permissioned blockCHAIN (ExplorerChain): decentralized online healthcare/genomics predictive model learning. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2020, 27: 747-756. PMID: 32364235, PMCID: PMC7309256, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBlockchain technologyCentral serverServer-based methodBenefits of blockchainData protection policiesCentralized serverArtificial intelligenceModel learningDecentralized approachSmall datasetsBlockchainServerComputation strategySingle pointGeneralizable modelCost of efficiencyGenomic datasetsDatasetDistributed modelTechnologyGenomic dataMultiple institutionsDiscrimination powerIntelligencePotential advantages/disadvantagesPrivacy-preserving model learning on a blockchain network-of-networks
Kuo T, Kim J, Gabriel R. Privacy-preserving model learning on a blockchain network-of-networks. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2020, 27: 343-354. PMID: 31943009, PMCID: PMC7025358, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz214.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNetwork topologyExecution timeArt methodsPredictive correctnessPrivacy-preserving learningPrivacy-preserving methodsPrivacy-preserving modelSmall training datasetBlockchain networkBlockchain platformBlockchain technologyPrivacy concernsModel learningComplex dataLearning iterationsLearning methodsTraining datasetConsensus algorithmGeneralizable predictive modelsCorrectness resultsModel disseminationHierarchical networkSmall dataHierarchical approachRecord model
2019
Fair compute loads enabled by blockchain: sharing models by alternating client and server roles
Kuo T, Gabriel R, Ohno-Machado L. Fair compute loads enabled by blockchain: sharing models by alternating client and server roles. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2019, 26: 392-403. PMID: 30892656, PMCID: PMC7787356, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocy180.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
Identifying and characterizing highly similar notes in big clinical note datasets
Gabriel R, Kuo T, McAuley J, Hsu C. Identifying and characterizing highly similar notes in big clinical note datasets. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2018, 82: 63-69. PMID: 29679685, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.04.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical note datasetsDe-duplication algorithmMIMIC-III datasetElectronic health recordsJaccard similarityDe-duplicationLocality sensitive hashingMIMIC-IIINear-duplicatesScalable algorithmMeasure similarityAccurate statistical modelsSources of duplicationClustering methodDatasetAlgorithmApproximation algorithmHealth recordsDisjoint setsInstitutional datasetComparison of notesPairs of notesHashPairwise comparisonsPairwise
2017
Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications
Kuo T, Kim H, Ohno-Machado L. Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2017, 24: 1211-1220. PMID: 29016974, PMCID: PMC6080687, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx068.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsHealth care domainHealth care applicationsBlockchain technologyLedger technologyCare domainFeatures of blockchainBenefits of blockchainCare applicationsFamous BitcoinInformatics researchersBlockchainTechnologyApplicationsCovered topicsBitcoinDomainLatest applicationsPotential challengesDatabase