Mapping of Alzheimer's disease related data elements and the NIH Common Data Elements.

Xubing HaoRashmie AbeysingheFengbo ZhengPaul E Schulznull nullLicong Cui

Published in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2024)

The bag-of-words based and word embeddings based approaches showed promise in mapping AD-related data elements between different resources. Although the mapping approaches need further improvement, our result indicates that there is a critical need to standardize CDEs across these valuable AD research resources in order to maximize the discoveries regarding AD pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment that can be gleaned from them.

Keyphrases

big data
high resolution
electronic health record
high density
data analysis
cognitive decline