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Clinical Big Data And Deep Learning: Applications, Challenges, And Future Outlooks, Ying Yu, Liangliang Liu, Yaohang Li, Jianxin Wang

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The explosion of digital healthcare data has led to a surge of data-driven medical research based on machine learning. In recent years, as a powerful technique for big data, deep learning has gained a central position in machine learning circles for its great advantages in feature representation and pattern recognition. This article presents a comprehensive overview of studies that employ deep learning methods to deal with clinical data. Firstly, based on the analysis of the characteristics of clinical data, various types of clinical data (e.g., medical images, clinical notes, lab results, vital signs and demographic informatics) are discussed and details …