Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
The lack of transparency and explainability hinders the clinical adoption of Machine learning (ML) algorithms. While explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have been proposed, little research has focused on the agreement between these meth...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
The prediction of disease can facilitate early intervention, comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, thereby benefiting healthcare and reducing medical costs. While single class and multi-class learning methods have been applied for disease prediction...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
We have developed a time-oriented machine-learning tool to predict the binary decision of administering a medication and the quantitative decision regarding the specific dose. We evaluated our tool on the MIMIC-IV ICU database, for three common medic...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
The success of deep learning in natural language processing relies on ample labelled training data. However, models in the health domain often face data inadequacy due to the high cost and difficulty of acquiring training data. Developing such models...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
Nursing staff record observations about older people under their care in free-text nursing notes. These notes contain older people's care needs, disease symptoms, frequency of symptom occurrence, nursing actions, etc. Therefore, it is vital to develo...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
Pain is a common reason for accessing healthcare resources and is a growing area of research, especially in its overlap with mental health. Mental health electronic health records are a good data source to study this overlap. However, much informatio...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
In this paper, we address the related tasks of medication extraction, event classification, and context classification from clinical text. The data for the tasks were obtained from the National Natural Language Processing (NLP) Clinical Challenges (n...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
Automatic extraction of relations between drugs/chemicals and proteins from ever-growing biomedical literature is required to build up-to-date knowledge bases in biomedicine. To promote the development of automated methods, BioCreative-VII organized ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
Medical research prioritization is an important aspect of decision-making by researchers and relevant stakeholders. The ever-increasing availability of technology and data has opened doors to new discoveries and new questions. This makes it difficult...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
According to the World Stroke Organization, 12.2 million people world-wide will have their first stroke this year almost half of which will die as a result. Natural Language Processing (NLP) may improve stroke phenotyping; however, existing rule-base...