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: In multi-label text classification, each textual document is assigned 1 or more labels. As an important task that has broad applications in biomedicine, a number of different computational methods have been proposed. Many of these methods,...
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing (NLP) engines such as the clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System are a solution for processing notes for research, but optimizing their performance for a clinical data warehouse remains a challen...
BACKGROUND: Free-text imposes a challenge in health data analysis since the lack of structure makes the extraction and integration of information difficult, particularly in the case of massive data. An appropriate machine-interpretation of electronic...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Author-centric analyses of fast-growing biomedical reference databases are challenging due to author ambiguity. This problem has been mainly addressed through author disambiguation using supervised machine-learning algorithms. Such algorit...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
This demonstration showcase will present a novel open access text mining application called NimbleMiner. NimbleMiner's architecture is language agnostic and it can be potentially applied in multiple languages. The system was applied in a series of re...
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