Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Accurate medication information is important for children, as dosing errors can have severe consequences compared to adults. We propose an automated method to extract pediatric information from Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPC). We used AirO...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Despite decades of research and disease burden, RSV remains the most common cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) in infants <2 years of age. New vaccines and an improved long lasting monoclonal antibody have been approved to prote...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
News media aggregate and report disposition counts during crises: how many people are affected, suspected affected, have died, and have recovered or been recovered; and they tend to do so in a timely and trustworthy manner. We present and evaluate a ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This work introduces a web application for extracting, processing, and visualizing data from sleep studies reports. Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), the pipeline extracts over 75 key data points from fo...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
The German Medical Text Project (GeMTeX) is one of the largest infrastructure efforts for German-language clinical documents. To determine the different starting points of the participating institutions, we conducted a survey regarding standards, ann...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Monitoring adverse drug events (ADEs) is critical for pharmacovigilance and patient safety. However, identifying ADEs remains challenging, as suspected or confirmed side effects are often documented solely in the unstructured text of electronic healt...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study investigates large language models for delirium detection from nursing reports, comparing keyword matching, prompting, and finetuning. Using a manually labelled dataset from the University Hospital Freiburg, Germany, we tested Llama3 and P...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
The high cost of manual data labeling and privacy concerns result in a considerable dearth of medical annotations in non-English texts. Recent work by Frank and Kramer [1] introduces an unsupervised approach for constructing an ontology-annotated cor...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Bridging diverse terminologies and ensuring precise information retrieval, semantic similarity in medical language is key to improve healthcare outcomes. Semantic similarity measures how closely pieces of text share the same meaning, a crucial elemen...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
At the hospital, the dispersion of information regarding anti-cancer treatment makes it difficult to extract. We proposed a solution capable of identifying dates, drugs and their temporal relationship within free-text oncology reports with very few m...