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An Infrared Thermal Images Database and a New Technique for Thyroid Nodules Analysis.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Thyroid nodules diseases are a common health problem and thyroidal cancer is becoming increasingly prevalent. They appear in the neck and bottom neck region, superficially over the trachea. Cancer tissues are characterized by higher temperatures than...

Detecting Signals of Interactions Between Warfarin and Dietary Supplements in Electronic Health Records.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Drug and supplement interactions (DSIs) have drawn widespread attention due to their potential to affect therapeutic response and adverse event risk. Electronic health records provide a valuable source where the signals of DSIs can be identified and ...

General Symptom Extraction from VA Electronic Medical Notes.

Studies in health technology and informatics
There is need for cataloging signs and symptoms, but not all are documented in structured data. The text from clinical records are an additional source of signs and symptoms. We describe a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique to identify sympt...

Extracting Sexual Trauma Mentions from Electronic Medical Notes Using Natural Language Processing.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Patient history of sexual trauma is of clinical relevance to healthcare providers as survivors face adverse health-related outcomes. This paper describes a method for identifying mentions of sexual trauma within the free text of electronic medical no...

Translational Morphosyntax: Distribution of Negation in Clinical Records and Biomedical Journal Articles.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Prior knowledge of the distributional characteristics of linguistic phenomena can be useful for a variety of language processing tasks. This paper describes the distribution of negation in two types of biomedical texts: scientific journal articles an...

Automatic Identification of Glaucoma Using Deep Learning Methods.

Studies in health technology and informatics
This paper proposes an automatic classification method to detect glaucoma in fundus images. The method is based on training a neural network using public image databases. The network used in this paper is the GoogLeNet, adapted for this proposal. The...

Inter-Annotator Agreement and the Upper Limit on Machine Performance: Evidence from Biomedical Natural Language Processing.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Human-annotated data is a fundamental part of natural language processing system development and evaluation. The quality of that data is typically assessed by calculating the agreement between the annotators. It is widely assumed that this agreement ...

Semi-Automatic Mark-Up and UMLS Annotation of Clinical Guidelines.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Clinical guidelines and clinical pathways are accepted and proven instruments for quality assurance and process optimization in the healthcare domain. To derive clinical pathways from clinical guidelines, the imprecise, non-formalized abstract guidel...

MedEx/J: A One-Scan Simple and Fast NLP Tool for Japanese Clinical Texts.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Because of recent replacement of physical documents with electronic medical records (EMR), the importance of information processing in the medical field has increased. In light of this trend, we have been developing MedEx/J, which retrieves important...

PubMedReco: A Real-Time Recommender System for PubMed Citations.

Studies in health technology and informatics
We present a recommender system, PubMedReco, for real-time suggestions of medical articles from PubMed, a database of over 23 million medical citations. PubMedReco can recommend medical article citations while users are conversing in a synchronous co...