Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 23, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Genomic profiling information is frequently available to oncologists, enabling targeted cancer therapy. Because clinically relevant information is rapidly emerging in the literature and elsewhere, there is a need for informatics technol...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 28, 2016
OBJECTIVE: Health care generated data have become an important source for clinical and genomic research. Often, investigators create and iteratively refine phenotype algorithms to achieve high positive predictive values (PPVs) or sensitivity, thereby...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 24, 2016
OBJECTIVE: Clinical trials investigating drugs that target specific genetic alterations in tumors are important for promoting personalized cancer therapy. The goal of this project is to create a knowledge base of cancer treatment trials with annotati...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 17, 2016
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing methods for medical auto-coding, or automatic generation of medical billing codes from electronic health records, generally assign each code independently of the others. They may thus assign codes for closely re...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 13, 2015
OBJECTIVE: To identify patients in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) study cohort who have fallen by applying supervised machine learning methods to radiology reports of the cohort.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Sep 2, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Medication-indication information is a key part of the information needed for providing decision support for and promoting appropriate use of medications. However, this information is not readily available to end users, and a lot of the re...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 7, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Hospitals are challenged to provide timely patient care while maintaining high resource utilization. This has prompted hospital initiatives to increase patient flow and minimize nonvalue added care time. Real-time demand capacity managemen...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 7, 2015
OBJECTIVE: This paper presents an automatic, active learning-based system for the extraction of medical concepts from clinical free-text reports. Specifically, (1) the contribution of active learning in reducing the annotation effort and (2) the robu...