The purpose of this study was to use natural language processing of physician documentation to predict mortality in patients admitted to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). The Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care III database...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Digitalisation of health care for the purpose of medical documentation lead to huge amounts of data, hence having an opportunity to derive knowledge and associations of different attributes recorded. Many health care events can be prevented when iden...
Deep learning is an important new area of machine learning which encompasses a wide range of neural network architectures designed to complete various tasks. In the medical imaging domain, example tasks include organ segmentation, lesion detection, a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Semantic relations have been studied for decades without yet reaching consensus on the set of these relations. However, biomedical language processing and ontologies rely on these relations, so it is important to be able to evaluate their suitability...
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Sep 1, 2016
RATIONALE: Transitions to outpatient care are crucial after critical illness, but the documentation practices in discharge documents after critical illness are unknown.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
The paper presents a concise method for transforming textual representations of healthcare services, to a structured, semantically unambiguous modelling language. The method is designed based on literature, as well as trial and error by the authors, ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
Extracting evidence of the absence of a target of interest from medical text can be useful in clinical inferencing. The purpose of our study was to develop a natural language processing (NLP) pipelineto identify the presence of indwelling urinary cat...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
The paper presents the results of the development and implementation of an expert system that automatically generates doctors' letters based on the results of laboratory tests. Medical knowledge is expressed using a first order predictate logic based...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Nowadays a lot of trials for collecting electronic medical records (EMRs) exist. However, structuring data format for EMR is an especially labour-intensive task for practitioners. Here we propose a new mark-up language for medical record charting (ca...
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