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M. Brandon Westover

Harvard University - Department of Neurology

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Scholarly Papers (9)

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Why Interpretable Causal Inference is Important for High-Stakes Medical Decision Making in Neurology and How to Do it

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Mar 2022
Harsh Parikh, Kentaro Hoffman, Haoqi Sun, Wendong Ge, Jin Jing, Lin Liu, Jimeng Sun, Sahar F. Zafar, Aaron F. Struck, Alexander Volfovksy, Cynthia Rudin and M. Brandon Westover
Duke University - Duke University School of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Statistics, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University, University of Illinois at Chicago - Grainger College of Engineering, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Neurology, Duke University - Duke University School of Law, Duke University - Department of Computer Science and Harvard University - Department of Neurology
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Interpretability, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Seizures, Critical Care, Epileptiform Activity

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Brain Health Scores to Predict Neurological Outcomes from Electronic Health Records

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Sep 2022
Marta Bento Fernandes, Haoqi Sun, Zeina Chemali, Shibani S. Mukerji, Lidia Moura, Sahar F. Zafar, Akshata Sonni, Alessandro Biffi, Jonathan Rosand and M. Brandon Westover
Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University - Department of Neurology
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Survival analysis, Time-to-event, dementia, Depression, ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage.

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Automated Identification of Fall-Related Injuries in Unstructured Clinical Notes

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Mar 2023
Lilian Maria Godeiro Coelho, Wendong Ge, Maria A. Donahue, Hunter J. Rice, Deborah Blacker, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Sebastien Haneuse, M. Brandon Westover and Lidia Moura
Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Neurology and Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital
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Fall-related injuryElectronic Health RecordDeep learningNatural Language ProcessingBidirectional Encoder Representation from TransformersSupport Vector Machines (SVM)

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Automated Medical Records Review for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 03 Oct 2024
Ruoqi Wei, Stephanie Buss, Rebecca Milde, Marta Bento Fernandes, Wan-Yee Kong, Jet Veltink, Tara Westover, Lydia Petersen, Dennis Hwang, Shibani Mukerji, Sahar F. Zafar, Daniel Sumsion, Elijah Davis, Yiwen Xiong, Manohar Ghanta, Katie L. Stone, Emmanuel Mignot, Lynn Trotti, Gari Clifford, Umakanth Katwa, Sudeshna Das, Samvrit Rao, Niels Turley, Arjun Singh, Valdery Junior, Aditya Gupta, Alice Lam, Jennifer A. Kim, Haoqi Sun, Robert Thomas and M. Brandon Westover
University of Florida, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stanford, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Yale University - School of Medicine, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard University - Department of Neurology
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Electronic Health Records (EHR), Dementia, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's Disease

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Automated Extraction of Seizures and Ictal-Interictal Continuum Patterns from EEG Reports to Enable Large-Scale Neurophysiology and Neurocritical Care Research

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Sep 2025
Shadi Sartipi, Deena Godfrey, Alexandra-Maria Tauțan, Marta Bento Fernandes, Manohar Ghanta, Aditya Gupta, Jong Woo Lee, Jurriaan M. Peters, Tobias Loddenkemper, Bruce Nearing, Aaron F. Struck, Jennifer A. Kim, M. Brandon Westover and Sahar F. Zafar
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Harvard Medical School, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Neurology, Yale University - School of Medicine, Harvard University - Department of Neurology and Harvard University - Department of Neurology
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EEG, LLM, NLP, Periodic Discharge, Rhythmic Delta Activity, Seizure

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Effects of Epileptiform Activity on Discharge Outcome in Critically Ill Patients: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Aug 2022
Harsh Parikh, Kentaro Hoffman, Haoqi Sun, Sahar F. Zafar, Wendong Ge, Jin Jing, Lin Liu, Jimeng Sun, Aaron F. Struck, Alexander Volfovksy, Cynthia Rudin and M. Brandon Westover
Duke University - Duke University School of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Statistics and Operation Research, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago - Grainger College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Neurology, Duke University - Duke University School of Law, Duke University - Department of Computer Science and Harvard University - Department of Neurology
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Epileptiform activity, modified Rankin Scale, anti-seizure medications, causal inference

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Epileptiform Activity Burden and Clinical Outcomes in 20 675 Hospitalized Patients: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 May 2026
Alexandra-Maria Tauțan, Marta Bento Fernandes, Marjan Sarami, Shadi Sartipi, David Cheng, Jin Jing, Jennifer A. Kim, Aaron F. Struck, M. Brandon Westover and Sahar F. Zafar
Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Yale University - School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Neurology and Harvard University - Department of Neurology
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Epileptiform activity, rhythmic and periodic patterns, functional outcomes, mRS

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COVID-19-Induced Headache in Boston and the Vicinity

Posted: 17 Oct 2022
Bart Chwalisz, Vi Le, Jennifer Cheng, Aayushee Jain, M. Brandon Westover and Hsinlin Cheng
Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University - Department of Neurology and Harvard Medical School

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COVID-19, Headache, Ethnicity, Boston

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Interrater Reliability of Experts in Identifying Seizures and Highly Epileptiform Events in Electroencephalograms

Posted: 22 Mar 2022
Jin Jing, Wendong Ge, Aaron F. Struck, Marta Bento Fernandes, Shenda Hong, Sungtae An, Safoora Fatima, Aline Herlopian, Ioannis Karakis, Jonathan J. Halford, Marcus C. Ng, Emily L. Johnson, Brian Appavu, Rani A. Sarkis, Gamaleldin Osman, Peter W. Kaplan, Monica B. Dhakar, Lakshman Arcot Jayagopal, Zubeda Sheikh, Olha Taraschenko, Sarah Schmitt, Hiba A. Haider, Jennifer A. Kim, Christa B. Swisher, Nicolas Gaspard, Mackenzie C. Cervenka, Andres Rodriguez, Jong Woo Lee, Mohammad Tabaeizadeh, Emily Gilmore, Kristy Nordstrom, Ji Yeoun Yoo, Manisha Holmes, Susan T. Herman, Jennifer A. Williams, Jay Pathmanathan, Fábio A. Nascimento, Ziwei Fan, Samaneh Nasiri, Mouhsin M. Shafi, Sydney S. Cash, Daniel B. Hoch, Andrew J. Cole, Eric S. Rosenthal, Sahar F. Zafar, Jimeng Sun and M. Brandon Westover
Harvard University - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Neurology, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Wisconsin-Madison, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Emory University - School of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, University of Manitoba, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Nebraska Medical Center, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Medical University of South Carolina, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Yale University - School of Medicine, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Emory University - School of Medicine, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Yale University - School of Medicine, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU) - Grossman School of Medicine, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center - Barrow Neurological Institute, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University - Department of Neurology, University of Illinois at Chicago - Grainger College of Engineering and Harvard University - Department of Neurology

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EEG, Epilepsy, Seizure, IIIC, IRR