Artificial intelligence (AI) holds promise for cardiovascular medicine but is limited by a lack of large, heterogeneous and granular data sets. Blockchain provides secure interoperability between siloed stakeholders and centralized data sources. We d...
Massive generation of health-related data has been key in enabling the big data science initiative to gain new insights in healthcare. Nursing can benefit from this era of big data science, as there is a growing need for new discoveries from large qu...
BACKGROUND: Virtual screening of candidate drug molecules using machine learning techniques plays a key role in pharmaceutical industry to design and discovery of new drugs. Computational classification methods can determine drug types according to t...
MOTIVATION: Information extraction by mining the scientific literature is key to uncovering relations between biomedical entities. Most existing approaches based on natural language processing extract relations from single sentence-level co-mentions,...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Extracting clinical entities and their attributes is a fundamental task of natural language processing (NLP) in the medical domain. This task is typically recognized as 2 sequential subtasks in a pipeline, clinical entity or attribute reco...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Track 1 of the 2018 National NLP Clinical Challenges shared tasks focused on identifying which patients in a corpus of longitudinal medical records meet and do not meet identified selection criteria.
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: With growing availability of digital health data and technology, health-related studies are increasingly augmented or implemented using real world data (RWD). Recent federal initiatives promote the use of RWD to make clinical assertions th...
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