Identifying and Predicting Intentional Self-Harm in Electronic Health Record Clinical Notes: Deep Learning Approach

• Published in: JMIR medical informatics Vol. 8; no. 7; p. e17784
• Main Authors: Obeid, Jihad S, Dahne, Jennifer, Christensen, Sean, Howard, Samuel, Crawford, Tami, Frey, Lewis J, Stecker, Tracy, Bunnell, Brian E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 30.07.2020
• Subjects: Original Paper; deep learning; suicide, attempted; electronic health records; natural language processing; machine learning; suicide

Suicide is an important public health concern in the United States and around the world. There has been significant work examining machine learning approaches to identify and predict intentional self-harm and suicide using existing data sets. With recent advances in computing, deep learning applicat...