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Autori principali: Burkhart, Michael C., Ramadan, Bashar, Liao, Zewei, Chhikara, Kaveri, Rojas, Juan C., Parker, William F., Beaulieu-Jones, Brett K.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10422
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author Burkhart, Michael C.
Ramadan, Bashar
Liao, Zewei
Chhikara, Kaveri
Rojas, Juan C.
Parker, William F.
Beaulieu-Jones, Brett K.
author_facet Burkhart, Michael C.
Ramadan, Bashar
Liao, Zewei
Chhikara, Kaveri
Rojas, Juan C.
Parker, William F.
Beaulieu-Jones, Brett K.
contents Foundation models (FMs) trained on electronic health records (EHRs) have shown strong performance on a range of clinical prediction tasks. However, adapting these models to local health systems remains challenging due to limited data availability and resource constraints. In this study, we investigated what these models learn and evaluated the transferability of an FM trained on MIMIC-IV to an institutional EHR dataset at the University of Chicago Medical Center. We assessed their ability to identify outlier patients and examined representation-space patient trajectories in relation to future clinical outcomes. We also evaluated the performance of supervised fine-tuned classifiers on both source and target datasets. Our findings offer insights into the adaptability of FMs across different healthcare systems, highlight considerations for their effective implementation, and provide an empirical analysis of the underlying factors that contribute to their predictive performance.
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spellingShingle Foundation models for electronic health records: representation dynamics and transferability
Burkhart, Michael C.
Ramadan, Bashar
Liao, Zewei
Chhikara, Kaveri
Rojas, Juan C.
Parker, William F.
Beaulieu-Jones, Brett K.
Machine Learning
Foundation models (FMs) trained on electronic health records (EHRs) have shown strong performance on a range of clinical prediction tasks. However, adapting these models to local health systems remains challenging due to limited data availability and resource constraints. In this study, we investigated what these models learn and evaluated the transferability of an FM trained on MIMIC-IV to an institutional EHR dataset at the University of Chicago Medical Center. We assessed their ability to identify outlier patients and examined representation-space patient trajectories in relation to future clinical outcomes. We also evaluated the performance of supervised fine-tuned classifiers on both source and target datasets. Our findings offer insights into the adaptability of FMs across different healthcare systems, highlight considerations for their effective implementation, and provide an empirical analysis of the underlying factors that contribute to their predictive performance.
title Foundation models for electronic health records: representation dynamics and transferability
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10422