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Lessons learned in the generation of biomedical research datasets using Semantic Open Data technologies.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Biomedical research usually requires combining large volumes of data from multiple heterogeneous sources. Such heterogeneity makes difficult not only the generation of research-oriented dataset but also its exploitation. In recent years, the Open Dat...

Toward a patient safety upper level ontology.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Patient Safety (PS) standardization is the key to improve interoperability and expand international share of incident reporting system knowledge. By aligning the Patient Safety Categorial Structure (PS-CAST) to the Basic Formal Ontology version 2 (BF...

Biomarkers in the ontology for general medical science.

Studies in health technology and informatics
A great deal of recent work has been devoted to the topic of biomarkers as aids to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment evaluation. Basing our work on the Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) and on the specifications provided by the Institute o...

Design, development and first validation of a transcoding system from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10 in the IT.DRG Italian project.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In Italy, ICD-9-CM is currently used for coding health conditions at hospital discharge, but ICD-10 is being introduced thanks to the IT-DRG Project. In this project, one needed component is a set of transcoding rules and associated tools for easing ...

A methodology for mining clinical data: experiences from TRANSFoRm project.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Data mining of electronic health records (eHRs) allows us to identify patterns of patient data that characterize diseases and their progress and learn best practices for treatment and diagnosis. Clinical Prediction Rules (CPRs) are a form of clinical...

Health consumer-oriented information retrieval.

Studies in health technology and informatics
While patients can freely access their Electronic Health Records or online health information, they may not be able to correctly understand the content of these documents. One of the challenges is related to the difference between expert and non-expe...

Content based image retrieval using local binary pattern operator and data mining techniques.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Content based image retrieval (CBIR) concerns the retrieval of similar images from image databases, using feature vectors extracted from images. These feature vectors globally define the visual content present in an image, defined by e.g., texture, c...

Synthesizing analytic evidence to refine care pathways.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Care pathways play significant roles in delivering evidence-based and coordinated care to patients with specific conditions. In order to put care pathways into practice, clinical institutions always need to adapt them based on local care settings so ...

Exploring brand-name drug mentions on Twitter for pharmacovigilance.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Twitter has been proposed by several studies as a means to track public health trends such as influenza and Ebola outbreaks by analyzing user messages in order to measure different population features and interests. In this work we analyze the number...

Automatic extraction of numerical values from unstructured data in EHRs.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Clinical data recorded in modern EHRs are very rich, although their secondary use research and medical decision may be complicated (eg, missing and incorrect data, data spread over several clinical databases, information available only within unstruc...