Patient Similarity via Joint Embeddings of Medical Knowledge Graph and Medical Entity Descriptions

With the prevalence and growing volume of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), there has been increasing interest in mining EHRs for improving clinical decision support. The accurate identification of patients with similar conditions based on EHRs is a key step in personalized healthcare. Existing stud...

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Main Authors: Zhihuang Lin, Dan Yang, Xiaochun Yin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9178312/