Criteria2Query: a natural language interface to clinical databases for cohort definition.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Cohort definition is a bottleneck for conducting clinical research and depends on subjective decisions by domain experts. Data-driven cohort definition is appealing but requires substantial knowledge of terminologies and clinical data models. Criteria2Query is a natural language interface that facilitates human-computer collaboration for cohort definition and execution using clinical databases.

Authors

  • Chi Yuan
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Patrick B Ryan
    Janssen Research and Development, Raritan, NJ, USA.
  • Casey Ta
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Yixuan Guo
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Ziran Li
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Jill Hardin
    Epidemiology Analytics, Janssen Research and Development, Titusville, New Jersey, USA.
  • Rupa Makadia
    Epidemiology Analytics, Janssen Research and Development, Titusville, New Jersey, USA.
  • Peng Jin
  • Ning Shang
    Columbia University, New York, New York.
  • Tian Kang
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, USA.
  • Chunhua Weng
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University.