Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The goal of the 2018 n2c2 shared task on cohort selection for clinical trials (track 1) is to identify which patients meet the selection criteria for clinical trials. Cohort selection is a particularly demanding task to which natural langu...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Automated clinical phenotyping is challenging because word-based features quickly turn it into a high-dimensional problem, in which the small, privacy-restricted, training datasets might lead to overfitting. Pretrained embeddings might sol...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: In this era of digitized health records, there has been a marked interest in using de-identified patient records for conducting various health related surveys. To assist in this research effort, we developed a novel clinical data represent...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Cohort selection for clinical trials is a key step for clinical research. We proposed a hierarchical neural network to determine whether a patient satisfied selection criteria or not.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Identifying patients who meet selection criteria for clinical trials is typically challenging and time-consuming. In this article, we describe our clinical natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically assess patients' eligibil...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The 2018 National NLP Clinical Challenge (2018 n2c2) focused on the task of cohort selection for clinical trials, where participating systems were tasked with analyzing longitudinal patient records to determine if the patients met or did n...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Clinical trials, prospective research studies on human participants carried out by a distributed team of clinical investigators, play a crucial role in the development of new treatments in health care. This is a complex and expensive proce...
INTRODUCTION: Adverse event (AE) under-reporting has been a recurrent issue raised during health authorities Good Clinical Practices (GCP) inspections and audits. Moreover, safety under-reporting poses a risk to patient safety and data integrity. The...