State‐of‐the‐art machine learning techniques aiming to improve patient outcomes pertaining to the cardiovascular system

RK Sevakula, WTM Au‐Yeung, JP Singh… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
With the digitization of all records and processes, and prevalence of cloud-driven services
and Internet of Things, today's era can truly be considered as an era of data. Machine …

A globally optimal k-anonymity method for the de-identification of health data

K El Emam, FK Dankar, R Issa, E Jonker… - Journal of the …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background: Explicit patient consent requirements in privacy laws can have a negative
impact on health research, leading to selection bias and reduced recruitment. Often …

[PDF][PDF] Practicing differential privacy in health care: A review.

FK Dankar, K El Emam - Trans. Data Priv., 2013 - tdp.cat
Differential privacy has gained a lot of attention in recent years as a general model for the
protection of personal information when used and disclosed for secondary purposes. It has …

[HTML][HTML] Use and understanding of anonymization and de-identification in the biomedical literature: scoping review

R Chevrier, V Foufi, C Gaudet-Blavignac… - Journal of medical …, 2019 - jmir.org
Background The secondary use of health data is central to biomedical research in the era of
data science and precision medicine. National and international initiatives, such as the …

[图书][B] Guide to the de-identification of personal health information

K El Emam - 2013 - books.google.com
Offering compelling practical and legal reasons why de-identification should be one of the
main approaches to protecting patients' privacy, this book outlines a proven, risk-based …

An integrated big and fast data analytics platform for smart urban transportation management

S Fiore, D Elia, CE Pires, DG Mestre, C Cappiello… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart urban transportation management can be considered as a multifaceted big data
challenge. It strongly relies on the information collected into multiple, widespread, and …

The application of differential privacy to health data

FK Dankar, K El Emam - Proceedings of the 2012 Joint EDBT/ICDT …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Differential privacy has gained a lot of attention in recent years as a general model for the
protection of personal information when used and disclosed for secondary purposes. It has …

Estimating the re-identification risk of clinical data sets

FK Dankar, K El Emam, A Neisa, T Roffey - BMC medical informatics and …, 2012 - Springer
Background De-identification is a common way to protect patient privacy when disclosing
clinical data for secondary purposes, such as research. One type of attack that de …

[HTML][HTML] De-identification methods for open health data: the case of the Heritage Health Prize claims dataset

K El Emam, L Arbuckle, G Koru, B Eze… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - jmir.org
Background There are many benefits to open datasets. However, privacy concerns have
hampered the widespread creation of open health data. There is a dearth of documented …

The development of large-scale de-identified biomedical databases in the age of genomics—principles and challenges

FK Dankar, A Ptitsyn, SK Dankar - Human genomics, 2018 - Springer
Contemporary biomedical databases include a wide range of information types from various
observational and instrumental sources. Among the most important features that unite …