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Item Applying machine learning methods to electronic health records: studies in risk-stratification of chronic kidney disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(University of Delaware, 2019) Bhattacharya, MoumitaElectronic Health Records (EHRs) provide valuable clinical information that can be used toward disease prediction and patient risk-stratification. Applying machine learning methods to EHR data can enable identification of characteristic patterns in individuals and in whole populations. However, learning accurate models based on EHRs pose a number of challenges, including class imbalance and missing observations. In this thesis, we develop machine learning approaches for risk-stratification while effectively addressing challenges stemming from EHR analysis. We present our work in the context of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), two common chronic conditions. ☐ We propose two approaches for addressing class imbalance. The first is a sampling-based ensemble method that attains high performance when used for stratifying CKD by severity levels. The second is an approach combining under- and over-sampling and an ensemble classifier that effectively identifies HCM patients at risk for adverse outcomes. To identify groups of co-occurring medical conditions among CKD patients, we introduce a probabilistic framework employing topic modeling in a non-traditional way. The obtained topics are clinically-meaningful, tight and distinct. Last, we present a framework utilizing supervised learning that effectively stratifies CKD patients by hospitalization risk. The models proposed in this thesis have much potential to assist healthcare providers in making clinical decisions.