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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2018

Leveraging text skeleton for de-identification of electronic medical records.

Yue-Shu Zhao, Kun-Li Zhang, Hong-Chao Ma, Kun Li

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Yue-Shu ZhaoThe Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Kangfu Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450072, China.
Kun-Li ZhangSchool of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Science Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, China. ieklzhang@zzu.edu.cn.
Hong-Chao MaSchool of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Science Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, China. ma-hc@foxmail.com.
Kun LiSchool of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Science Avenue, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, China.

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Abstract

backgroundDe-identification is the first step to use these records for data processing or further medical investigations in electronic medical records. Consequently, a reliable automated de-identification system would be of high value.

methodsIn this paper, a method of combining text skeleton and recurrent neural network is proposed to solve the problem of de-identification. Text skeleton is the general structure of a medical record, which can help neural networks to learn better.

resultsWe evaluated our method on three datasets involving two English datasets from i2b2 de-identification challenge and a Chinese dataset we annotated. Empirical results show that the text skeleton based method we proposed can help the network to recognize protected health information.

conclusionsThe comparison between our method and state-of-the-art frameworks indicates that our method achieves high performance on the problem of medical record de-identification.

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Data AnonymizationElectronic Health RecordsNeural Networks, ComputerHumansDe-identificationPHIText skeleton

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