Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Disease ontology, defined as a causal chain of abnormal states, is believed to be a valuable knowledge base in medical information systems. Automatic mapping between electronic health records (EHR) and disease ontology is indispensable for applying d...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In clinical practice, many patients may have unknown or missing values for some predictors, causing that the developed risk models cannot be directly applied on these patients. In this paper, we propose an incremental learning approach to apply a dev...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Search techniques in clinical text need to make fine-grained semantic distinctions, since medical terms may be negated, about someone other than the patient, or at some time other than the present. While natural language processing (NLP) approaches a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Drug and supplement interactions (DSIs) have drawn widespread attention due to their potential to affect therapeutic response and adverse event risk. Electronic health records provide a valuable source where the signals of DSIs can be identified and ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
There is need for cataloging signs and symptoms, but not all are documented in structured data. The text from clinical records are an additional source of signs and symptoms. We describe a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique to identify sympt...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Patient history of sexual trauma is of clinical relevance to healthcare providers as survivors face adverse health-related outcomes. This paper describes a method for identifying mentions of sexual trauma within the free text of electronic medical no...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Prior knowledge of the distributional characteristics of linguistic phenomena can be useful for a variety of language processing tasks. This paper describes the distribution of negation in two types of biomedical texts: scientific journal articles an...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Because of recent replacement of physical documents with electronic medical records (EMR), the importance of information processing in the medical field has increased. In light of this trend, we have been developing MedEx/J, which retrieves important...
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc
Jan 1, 2017
A major challenge for radiologists is obtaining meaningful clinical follow-up information for even a small percentage of cases encountered and dictated. Traditional methods, such as keeping medical record number follow-up lists, discussing cases with...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Electronic-health relies on extensive computer networks to facilitate access and to communicate various types of information in the form of data packets. To examine the effectiveness of these networks, the traffic parameters need to be analysed. Due ...
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