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New GraphBEAT Framework Enhances Cancer Risk Stratification from EHRs

Researchers have developed GraphBEAT, a novel temporal graph representation learning framework designed to improve early risk stratification for gastrointestinal cancers using electronic health records (EHRs). This method groups clinical events into time buckets and constructs patient-specific graphs to model health transitions. GraphBEAT demonstrated superior performance over existing graph neural networks and sequence models in predicting pancreatic, liver, and intestinal cancers at various lead times, while also being significantly more computationally efficient. AI

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New GraphBEAT Framework Enhances Cancer Risk Stratification from EHRs

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Leo Y. Li-Han, Chris Varghese, Elizabeth B. Habermann, Mark J. Truty, William R. G. Perry, Cornelius A. Thiels, Hojjat Salehinejad ·

    GraphBEAT: Graph-based Bucketized Event Aggregation Over Time for Early Risk Stratification of Gastrointestinal Cancers

    arXiv:2610.22014v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) contain complementary diagnostic and laboratory information about patient health. However, irregularity, sparsity, heterogeneity, and incompleteness in documentation complicate EHR mod…