Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
In this paper, we trained a set of Portuguese clinical word embedding models of different granularities from multi-specialty and multi-institutional clinical narrative datasets. Then, we assessed their impact on a downstream biomedical NLP task of Ur...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Structuring raw medical documents with ontology mapping is now the next step for medical intelligence. Deep learning models take as input mathematically embedded information, such as encoded texts. To do so, word embedding methods can represent every...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Assessing a patient's risk of an impending suicide attempt has been hampered by limited information about dynamic factors that change rapidly in the days leading up to an attempt. The storage of patient data in electronic health records (EHRs) has fa...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Hospital systems frequently implement quality measures to quantify healthcare processes and patient outcomes. One such measure that has previously been used is the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) quality measure of perioperative beta blocker...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Kidney transplantation is recommended for patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). However, complications, such as graft rejection are hard to predict due to donor and recipient variability. This study discusses the role of machine learning (ML)...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Eliciting semantic similarity between concepts remains a challenging task. Recent approaches founded on embedding vectors have gained in popularity as they have risen to efficiently capture semantic relationships. The underlying idea is that two word...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 8, 2019
The paper applies an artificial intelligence centered method to classify 12 clinical safety incident (CSI) classes. The paper aims to establish a taxonomy that classifies the CSI reports into their correct classes automatically and with high accuracy...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 4, 2019
Clinical decision support systems are data analysis software that supports health professionals' decision - making the process to reach their ultimate outcome, taking into account patient information. However, the need for decision support systems ca...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 4, 2019
This paper presents an improved solution for detecting gestures with a better precision using the Leap Motion sensor and Machine Learning support. A neural network is trained to recognize a hand rotation gesture expressing the grade of recovery, with...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 4, 2019
Structuring and processing natural language is a growing challenge in the medical field. Researchers are looking for new ways to extract knowledge to create databases and applications to help doctors treat patients and minimize medical errors. A very...
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