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In contrast to the structured clinical data typically used for administrative purposes, clinical notes are more nuanced and are primarily used by healthcare providers for detailed documentation. Each patient encounter is associated with several clinical notes. This poses many challenges for analyzing the free text in these documents. The same holds for notes taken in […]

Dr. Rashidi will join Dr. Azra Bihorac and Dr. Yoshua Bengio in a discussion titled “How to achieve equitable, inclusive, and ethical AI development and implementation” at ISN Virtual World Congress of Nephrology 2021.

A Comprehensive Survey  Human Activity Recognition Research Paper [link] Nowadays, the aging population is becoming one of the world’s primary concerns. It is estimated that the population aged over 65 will increase from 461 million to 2 billion by 2050. Such a substantial increase in the elderly population will have significant social and health care […]

Dr. Rashidi is nominated as one of the three finalists for the National Institute of Health (NIH) Mitchel Max Award for Excellence in Research.

Original Article: Link Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D., areceived the HWCOE Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. This award is given to faculty who bring distinction to the university through their outstanding commitment to teaching, scholarship, service, research and creative activity.  The awards are focused on junior faculty and recognize excellence in research.

Main Article: Link Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received UF’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors for 2019. The award is one of the university’s top honors for a junior faculty member. Rashidi is the director of the “Intelligent Health Lab” (i-Heal). Her area […]

A first of its kind technology developed here in Gainesville can predict the probability and possible cause of death in the intensive care unit before vitals even fail. The new artificial intelligence system has the capability to combine and interpret the information of a patient’s vitals—it then can predict why a patient’s vitals may be changing. […]

Artificial intelligence used in the ICU to predict mortality, news story: Watch the video here: link

Excerpt from the original story:   UF researchers can now assess and treat a patient’s condition faster than ever before with advanced artificial intelligence technology. Dr. Azra Bihorac, a UF college of medicine and surgery professor, and Parisa Rashidi, a UF biomedical engineering assistant professor, published research last Tuesday in the Nature Scientific Reports journal […]

n a hospital’s intensive care unit, doctors get a cascade of data about each patient’s condition that can be challenging to quickly organize and interpret. Now, University of Florida researchers have developed and successfully tested an artificial intelligence system that delivers streamlined and timely details about crucial changes in a patient’s condition. The system, known […]