EHR phenotyping via jointly embedding medical concepts and words into a unified vector space

Abstract Background There has been an increasing interest in learning low-dimensional vector representations of medical concepts from Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Vector representations of medical concepts facilitate exploratory analysis and predictive modeling of EHR data to gain insights abou...

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Main Authors: Tian Bai, Ashis Kumar Chanda, Brian L. Egleston, Slobodan Vucetic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-018-0672-0