Adverse drug events and medication relation extraction in electronic health records with ensemble deep learning methods.

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

OBJECTIVE: Identification of drugs, associated medication entities, and interactions among them are crucial to prevent unwanted effects of drug therapy, known as adverse drug events. This article describes our participation to the n2c2 shared-task in extracting relations between medication-related entities in electronic health records.

Authors

  • Fenia Christopoulou
    National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • Thy Thy Tran
    National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • Sunil Kumar Sahu
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
  • Makoto Miwa
  • Sophia Ananiadou