2024
Biomedical blockchain with practical implementations and quantitative evaluations: a systematic review
Lacson R, Yu Y, Kuo T, Ohno-Machado L. Biomedical blockchain with practical implementations and quantitative evaluations: a systematic review. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2024, 31: 1423-1435. PMID: 38726710, PMCID: PMC11105130, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae084.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectronic health recordsSystematic reviewData sharingMedical data sharingSpeed metricsPreferred Reporting ItemsCertificate storageDecentralized InternetNetwork permissionsBlockchain platformBlockchain applicationsEvaluation metricsBiomedical domainBlockchainBiomedical data managementHealth recordsData managementData storageReporting ItemsHealth sectorQuantitative metricsMedical facilitiesMetricsTrial managementClinical trial management
2019
Machine Learning-Based Predictive Modeling of Surgical Intervention in Glaucoma Using Systemic Data From Electronic Health Records
Baxter S, Marks C, Kuo T, Ohno-Machado L, Weinreb R. Machine Learning-Based Predictive Modeling of Surgical Intervention in Glaucoma Using Systemic Data From Electronic Health Records. American Journal Of Ophthalmology 2019, 208: 30-40. PMID: 31323204, PMCID: PMC6888922, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2019.07.005.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrimary open-angle glaucomaElectronic health recordsMultivariable logistic regressionSurgical interventionGlaucoma surgeryPOAG patientsSystemic dataHigher mean systolic blood pressureMean systolic blood pressureNon-opioid analgesic medicationsLogistic regressionCertain medication classesEye-specific dataHealth recordsRisk of progressionSystolic blood pressureOpen-angle glaucomaSingle academic institutionAnti-hyperlipidemic medicationsAnalgesic medicationMedication classesProgressive diseaseBlood pressureCalcium blockersOphthalmic medications
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
Ensembles of NLP Tools for Data Element Extraction from Clinical Notes.
Kuo T, Rao P, Maehara C, Doan S, Chaparro J, Day M, Farcas C, Ohno-Machado L, Hsu C. Ensembles of NLP Tools for Data Element Extraction from Clinical Notes. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2017, 2016: 1880-1889. PMID: 28269947, PMCID: PMC5333200.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processingNLP toolsElectronic health recordsData elementsConcept extractionLanguage processingEnsemble methodDiverse conceptsEvaluation resultsHealth recordsElement extractionClinical notesPlausible solutionToolPipelineExtractionPerformanceEnsembleExtraction performanceConceptNarrative textProcessingText