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New REFINE framework personalizes medical concept representation from EHRs

Researchers have developed REFINE, a novel framework designed to create personalized medical concept representations from electronic health records (EHRs). This approach refines text-attributed knowledge graphs (TKGs) by constructing patient-specific temporal graphs and using a reinforcement learning policy to determine the optimal KG context for each observed code. A heterogeneous graph neural network then captures structural dependencies, while a frozen large language model semantically refines these representations using graph-aware soft prompts. Experiments conducted on the MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV datasets demonstrate that REFINE significantly enhances various EHR backbones and outperforms existing baseline methods. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more accurate patient diagnoses and treatment plans by improving how AI models understand and utilize medical data.

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New REFINE framework personalizes medical concept representation from EHRs

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi, Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam, Dongjie Wang, Zijun Yao ·

    REFINE: LLM Refinement over Budgeted Text-Attributed Graphs for Personalized Medical Concept Representation

    arXiv:2609.04415v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning rich medical concept representations is essential for EHR prediction. Text-attributed knowledge graphs (TKGs) provide a natural foundation by organizing heterogeneous medical relations together with textual semantics. How…