International journal of medical informatics
Aug 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is considered a pathology of retinal vascular complications, which stays in the top causes of vision impairment and blindness. Therefore, precisely inspecting its progression enables the ophthalmologists to set u...
International journal of medical informatics
Jul 6, 2019
BACKGROUND: Mortality surveillance is of fundamental importance to public health surveillance. The real-time recording of death certificates, thanks to Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS), provides valuable data for reactive mortality surveil...
International journal of medical informatics
Jul 6, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Electronic health record (EHR) systems contain structured data (such as diagnostic codes) and unstructured data (clinical documentation). Clinical insights can be derived from analyzing both. The use of natural language processing (NLP) al...
International journal of medical informatics
Jun 13, 2019
BACKGROUND: Nursing triage documentation is the first free-form text data created at the start of an emergency department (ED) visit. These 1-3 unstructured sentences reflect the clinical impression of an experienced nurse and are key in gauging a pa...
International journal of medical informatics
Jun 8, 2019
BACKGROUND: Last-minute surgery cancellation represents a major wastage of resources and can cause significant inconvenience to patients. Our objectives in this study were: 1) To develop predictive models of last-minute surgery cancellation, utilizin...
International journal of medical informatics
Jun 7, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to conduct an effective assessment of peripherally inserted central venous catheter (PICC)-related thrombosis based on machine learning (ML) techniques considering genotype.
International journal of medical informatics
Jun 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: This work deals with Natural Language Processing applied to the clinical domain. Specifically, the work deals with a Medical Entity Recognition (MER) on Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Developing a MER system entailed heavy data preproc...
International journal of medical informatics
May 25, 2019
BACKGROUND: Hospital discharge summaries offer a potentially rich resource to enhance pharmacovigilance efforts to evaluate drug safety in real-world clinical practice. However, it is infeasible for experts to read through all discharge summaries to ...
International journal of medical informatics
May 23, 2019
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Manual annotation and categorization of non-standardized text ("free-text") of drug orders entered into electronic health records is a labor-intensive task. However, standardization is required for drug order analyses and has ...
International journal of medical informatics
May 23, 2019
BACKGROUND: Cleft palate patients have inability to produce adequate velopharyngeal closure, which results in hypernasal speech. In clinic, hypernasal speech is assessed through subject assessment by speech language pathologists. Automatic hypernasal...
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