A neuro-symbolic method for understanding free-text medical evidence.

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

OBJECTIVE: We introduce Medical evidence Dependency (MD)-informed attention, a novel neuro-symbolic model for understanding free-text clinical trial publications with generalizability and interpretability.

Authors

  • Tian Kang
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, USA.
  • Ali Turfah
    Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, USA.
  • Jaehyun Kim
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, USA.
  • Adler Perotte
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Chunhua Weng
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University.