Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Due to individual differences in severity of illness, clinical studies typically use a comorbidity index to adjust outcomes. With the increasing use of electronic health records (EHRs) to assess the quality of care, a key question arises: how to adju...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Recent advancements in machine learning bring unique opportunities in health fields but also pose considerable challenges. Due to stringent ethical considerations and resource constraints, health data can vary in scope, population coverage, and colle...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Unstructured electronic health records are a rich source of patient-specific information but are challenging for analysis due to inconsistent terminology, diverse data formats, and extensive free-text content. To address this, we developed a named en...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
In medicine and healthcare, NER (Named Entity Recognition) involves identifying clinically relevant entities such as medications, symptoms, and adverse drug events (ADEs). This task is particularly challenging due to discontinuous NER (DNER), fragmen...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Balancing operational feasibility with the performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems is a significant challenge. This study presents a hybrid strategy to integrate manually curated rules, small language model (SLM), and large language ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Extracting nuanced adverse drug reactions (ADRs) from patient self-reported messages using is pivotal but challenging, particularly given HIPAA constraints. We investigate locally deployable small LLMs-Mistral-7B, Llama-3-8B, and Gemma-7B-for ADR ext...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
This study presents the development and evaluation of an annotation schema and rule-based natural language processing (NLP) system for extracting key melanoma pathology concepts from surgical pathology reports. Achieving high precision and recall, ou...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
In order to utilize clinical notes for research studies, it is necessary to identify the most relevant notes. Mapping to the LOINC Document Ontology makes this process easier by reducing the variability of note types. We experimented with three model...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
In recent decades, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become increasingly useful to support clinical decision-making and healthcare. EHRs usually contain heterogeneous information, such as structural data in tabular form and un-structured data in ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
The natural language processing pipeline powered by the BART model is a popular zero-shot text classification system. While the standard approach for using this pipeline can achieve impressive accuracies in many multiclass classification tasks, we be...
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