Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Electronic health records (EHR) enable machine learning methods like tensor factorization to extract computational phenotypes. Using Northwestern Medicine data (2000-2015), we analyzed breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancer cohorts to predict ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
In medicine and healthcare, NER (Named Entity Recognition) involves identifying clinically relevant entities such as medications, symptoms, and adverse drug events (ADEs). This task is particularly challenging due to discontinuous NER (DNER), fragmen...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Balancing operational feasibility with the performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems is a significant challenge. This study presents a hybrid strategy to integrate manually curated rules, small language model (SLM), and large language ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Extracting nuanced adverse drug reactions (ADRs) from patient self-reported messages using is pivotal but challenging, particularly given HIPAA constraints. We investigate locally deployable small LLMs-Mistral-7B, Llama-3-8B, and Gemma-7B-for ADR ext...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
This study presents the development and evaluation of an annotation schema and rule-based natural language processing (NLP) system for extracting key melanoma pathology concepts from surgical pathology reports. Achieving high precision and recall, ou...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
INTRODUCTION: The misuse of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs poses a significant global public health challenge. This study proposes a system for detecting and visualizing inappropriate OTC drug use in social media data.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
The fundamental process of evidence extraction in evidence-based medicine relies on identifying PICO elements, with Outcomes being the most complex and often overlooked. To address this, we introduce EvidenceOutcomes, a large annotated corpus of clin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Phenotype definitions are crucial for the progression of precision and personalized medicine. Although phenotype knowledge bases such as PheKB and the OHDSI library are available, they rely heavily on manual input. This study introduces PheCatcher, a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Processing and extracting information from unstructured texts written by physicians in Hospitals is still an open problem. There is no efficient solution that ensures the reliability of the extracted information without any human intervention. Many f...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
This study assessed the effectiveness of natural language processing (NLP) in detecting adverse events (AEs) from anticancer agents by analyzing data from over 39,000 cancer patients. A specialized machine learning model identified known AEs from ant...
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