Publications

My research lies at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and medicine. I primarily focus on the development of deep learning methods for complex electronic health records–this involves analysis of structured and unstructured multimodal and irregular time series data.

Mining for equitable health: Assessing the impact of missing data in electronic health records

Emily Getzen, Lyle Ungar, Danielle Mowery, Xiaoqian Jiang, Qi Long

Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Link to paper


Leveraging informative missing data to learn about acute respiratory distress syndrome and mortality in long-term hospitalized COVID-19 patients throughout the years of the pandemic

Emily Getzen*, Amelia Tan*, Gabriel Brat, Gilbert S. Omenn, Zachary Strasser, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Qi Long, John H. Holmes, Danielle Mowery

Accepted to AMIA, link to pre-print coming soon!


Informative missingness: What can we learn from patterns in missing laboratory data in the electronic health record?

Amelia Tan*, Emily Getzen*, Meghan Hutch, Zachary Strasser, Alba Guiterrez-Sacristan, Trang Le, Arianna Dagliati, Michele Morris, David A Hanauer, Bertrand Moal, Clara-Lea Bonzel, William Yuan, Lorenzo Chiudinelli, Priam Das, Harrison G Zhang, Bruce J Aronow, Paul Avillach, Gabriel Brat, Tianxi Cai, Chuan Hong, William La Cava, He Hooi Will Loh, Yuan Luo, Shawn Murphey, Kee Yuan Hgiam, Gilbert S Omenn, Lav P Patel, Malarkodi Samayamuthu, Emily Shriver, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Byorn W L Tan, Shyam Visweswaran, Xuan Wang, Griffin M Weber, Zongqi Xia, Bertrand Verdy, COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Qi Long, Danielle Mowery, John Homes. 

*denotes joint first authorship

Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Link to paper

Mining for Health: A Comparison of Word Embedding Methods for Analysis of EHRs Data 

Emily Getzen, Yucheng Yuan, Lyle Ungar, Qi Long

Accepted for publication in Precision Medicine: Methods and Applications. Link to paper

Mental health among head and neck surgeons in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national study

Alyssa M. Civantos*, Antonio Bertelli, Antonio Goncalves, Emily Getzen, Changgee Chang, Qi Long, Karthik Rajasekaran

American Journal of Otolaryngology. Link to paper