AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Computer-assisted (diagnostic) coding (CAC) aims to improve the operational productivity and accuracy of clinical coders. The level of accuracy, especially for a wide range of complex and less prevalent clinical cases, remains an open research proble...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Poor electronic medical record (EMR) usability is detrimental to both clinicians and patients. A better EMR would provide concise, context sensitive patient data, but doing so entails the difficult task of knowing which data are relevant. To determin...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Text de-identification is an application of clinical natural language processing that offers significant efficiency and scalability advantages. Hence, various learning algorithms have been applied to this task to yield better performance. Instead of ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Manually annotated clinical corpora are commonly used as the gold standards for the training and evaluation of clinical natural language processing (NLP) tools. The creation of these manual annotation corpora, however, is both costly and time-consumi...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
A computational phenotype is a set of clinically relevant and interesting characteristics that describe patients with a given condition. Various machine learning methods have been proposed to derive phenotypes in an automatic, high-throughput manner....
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Automating the extraction of behavioral criteria indicative of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in electronic health records (EHRs) can contribute significantly to the effort to monitor the condition. Word embedding algorithms such as Word2Vec can enco...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. NAFLD patients have excessive liver fat (steatosis), without other liver diseases and without excessive alcohol consumption. NAFLD consists of a spectr...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) are environmental and behavioral factors that are increasingly recognized for their impact on health outcomes. We describe ongoing research to extract SBDH related to sexual health from clinical doc...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
U.S. military veterans who were discharged from service for misconduct are at high risk for homelessness. Stratifying homelessness risk based on both military service factors and clinical characteristics could facilitate targeted provision of prevent...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Digital rectal examination (DRE) is considered a quality metric for prostate cancer care. However, much of the DRE related rich information is documented as free-text in clinical narratives. Therefore, we aimed to develop a natural language processin...
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