Serendipitous drug usage refers to the unexpected relief of comorbid diseases or symptoms when taking medication for a different known indication. Historically, serendipity has contributed significantly to identifying many new drug indications. If pa...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Mar 29, 2019
PURPOSE: This study investigated the benefits of implementing a cluster analysis technique to extract relevant information from a computed tomography (CT) dose registry archive.
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Mar 28, 2019
In recent years, the variety and volume of data acquired by modern analytical instruments in order to conduct a better authentication of food has dramatically increased. Several pattern recognition tools have been developed to deal with the large vol...
Work history information reflected in resumes and job application forms is commonly used to screen job applicants; however, there is little consensus as to how to systematically translate information about one's work-related past into predictors of f...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Mar 20, 2019
Coreference resolution is a challenging part of natural language processing (NLP) with applications in machine translation, semantic search and other information retrieval, and decision support systems. Coreference resolution requires linguistic prep...
Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Mar 15, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The fields of medicine and public health are undergoing a data revolution. An increasing availability of data has brought about a growing interest in machine-learning algorithms. Our objective is to present the reader with an introduction ...
Literature Based Discovery (LBD) refers to the problem of inferring new and interesting knowledge by logically connecting independent fragments of information units through explicit or implicit means. This area of research, which incorporates techniq...
Nonlinear fuzzy classification models have better classification performance than linear fuzzy classifiers. In many nonlinear fuzzy classification problems, piecewise-linear fuzzy discriminant functions can approximate nonlinear fuzzy discriminant fu...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Feb 28, 2019
The figures found in biomedical literature are a vital part of biomedical research, education, and clinical decision. The multitude of their modalities and the lack of corresponding metadata constitute search and information, retrieval a difficult ta...
The biomedical literature provides a rich source of knowledge such as protein-protein interactions (PPIs), drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and chemical-protein interactions (CPIs). Biomedical relation extraction aims to automatically extract biomedical...