Many adults do not reach the recommended physical activity (PA) guidelines, which can lead to serious health problems. A promising method to increase PA is the use of smartphone PA applications. However, despite the development and evaluation of mul...
Sepsis is a leading cause of death in hospitals. Early prediction and diagnosis of sepsis, which is critical in reducing mortality, is challenging as many of its signs and symptoms are similar to other less critical conditions. We develop an artifici...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Allergy mention normalization is challenging because of the wide range of possible allergens including medications, foods, plants, animals, and consumer products. This paper describes the process of mapping free-text allergy information from an elect...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Recent medical prognostic models adapted from high data-resource fields like language processing have quickly grown in complexity and size. However, since medical data typically constitute low data-resource settings, performances on tasks like clinic...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
A reliable and searchable knowledge database of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is highly important and valuable for improving patient safety at the point of care. In this paper, we proposed a neural multi-task learning system, NeuroADR, to extract ADR...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Information extraction (IE), the distillation of specific information from unstructured data, is a core task in natural language processing. For rare entities (<1% prevalence), collection of positive examples required to train a model may require an ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
A longstanding issue with knowledge bases that discuss drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is that they are inconsistent with one another. Computerized support might help experts be more objective in assessing DDI evidence. A requirement for such systems i...
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Jan 25, 2021
Online physician review (OPR) websites have been increasingly used by healthcare consumers to make informed decisions in selecting healthcare providers. However, consumer-generated online reviews are often unstructured and contain plural topics with ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Medical ionizing radiation procedures and especially medical imaging are a non negligible source of exposure to patients. Whereas the biological effects of high absorbed doses are relatively well known, the effects of low absorbed doses are still deb...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Research has demonstrated cohort misclassification when studies of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) rely on ICD-9/10-CM diagnosis codes. Electronic health record (EHR) data are being explored to better identify patients, a process called EHR ph...