Obesity is considered a principal public health concern and ranked as the fifth foremost
reason for death globally. Overweight and obesity are one of the main lifestyle illnesses that …

Background With the rapid adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), it is desirable to
harvest information and knowledge from EHRs to support automated systems at the point of …

Background: Clinical narratives represent the main form of communication within health
care, providing a personalized account of patient history and assessments, and offering rich …

With the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), large repositories of
structured and unstructured patient data are becoming available to conduct observational …

The prevalence of childhood and adolescence overweight an obesity is raising at an
alarming rate in many countries. This poses a serious threat to the current and near-future …

Background Obesity is a leading cause of preventable death worldwide. Artificial
intelligence (AI), characterized by machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), has …

Background Free-text descriptions in electronic health records (EHRs) can be of interest for
clinical research and care optimization. However, free text cannot be readily interpreted by a …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is defined as a set of spatially distributed and
interconnected sensor nodes. WSNs allow one to monitor and recognize environmental …

Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge. Early prediction and identification of
the children at an elevated risk of developing childhood obesity may help in engaging …

Identifying patient cohorts meeting the criteria of specific phenotypes is essential in
biomedicine and particularly timely in precision medicine. Many research groups deliver …