Scientific literature presents a wealth of information yet to be explored. As the number of researchers increase with each passing year and publications are released, this contributes to an era where specialized fields of research are becoming more p...
OBJECTIVE: To develop a natural language processing (NLP) system to extract medications and contextual information that help understand drug changes. This project is part of the 2022 n2c2 challenge.
BACKGROUND: The clinical documentation of cystoscopy includes visual and textual materials. However, the secondary use of visual cystoscopic data for educational and research purposes remains limited due to inefficient data management in routine clin...
Segmentation of the left ventricle is a key approach in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for calculating biomarkers in diagnosis. Since there is substantial effort required from the expert, many automatic segmentation methods have been proposed, in...
OBJECTIVE: Ovarian cancer is a significant health issue with lasting impacts on the community. Despite recent advances in surgical, chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic interventions, they have had only marginal impacts due to an inability to identi...
The degree of motor impairment and profile of recovery after stroke are difficult to predict for each individual. Measures obtained from clinical assessments, as well as neurophysiological and neuroimaging techniques have been used as potential bioma...
Transforming raw EHR data into machine learning model-ready inputs requires considerable effort. One widely used EHR database is Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC). Prior work on MIMIC-III cannot query the updated and improved MIMIC-...
A clinical sentiment is a judgment, thought or attitude promoted by an observation with respect to the health of an individual. Sentiment analysis has drawn attention in the healthcare domain for secondary use of data from clinical narratives, with a...
A causal effect can be defined as a comparison of outcomes that result from two or more alternative actions, with only one of the action-outcome pairs actually being observed. In healthcare, the gold standard for causal effect measurements is randomi...
BACKGROUND: Pharmacokinetic natural product-drug interactions (NPDIs) occur when botanical or other natural products are co-consumed with pharmaceutical drugs. With the growing use of natural products, the risk for potential NPDIs and consequent adve...