On building a diabetes centric knowledge base via mining the web.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Diabetes has become one of the hot topics in life science researches. To support the analytical procedures, researchers and analysts expend a mass of labor cost to collect experimental data, which is also error-prone. To reduce the cost and to ensure the data quality, there is a growing trend of extracting clinical events in form of knowledge from electronic medical records (EMRs). To do so, we first need a high-coverage knowledge base (KB) of a specific disease to support the above extraction tasks called KB-based Extraction.

Authors

  • Fan Gong
    Shanghai Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pu'an Road, Shanghai, China.
  • Yilei Chen
    Shanghai Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pu'an Road, Shanghai, China.
  • Haofen Wang
    Shanghai Leyan Technologies Co. Ltd, No. 1028 Panyu Road, Shanghai, China.
  • Hao Lu
    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.