OBJECTIVES: Automatic de-identification to remove protected health information (PHI) from clinical text can use a "binary" model that replaces redacted text with a generic tag (e.g., ""), or can use a "multiclass" model that retains more class i...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Aug 31, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In pulmonary nodule detection, the first stage, candidate detection, aims to detect suspicious pulmonary nodules. However, detected candidates include many false positives and thus in the following stage, false positive redu...
BACKGROUND: Early and automatic detection of pulmonary nodules from CT lung screening is the prerequisite for precise management of lung cancer. However, a large number of false positives appear in order to increase the sensitivity, especially for de...
Chemical-disease relation (CDR) extraction is significantly important to various areas of biomedical research and health care. Nowadays, many large-scale biomedical knowledge bases (KBs) containing triples about entity pairs and their relations have ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jun 22, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is one of the main causes of toxicity and treatment inefficacy. This work focuses on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the non-transmissible and long-lasting diseases since they are the leading ca...
Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
May 24, 2018
Traumatically brain injured (TBI) patients are at risk from secondary insults. Arterial hypotension, critically low blood pressure, is one of the most dangerous secondary insults and is related to poor outcome in patients. The overall aim of this stu...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
May 21, 2018
Automatically extracting the relationships between chemicals and diseases is significantly important to various areas of biomedical research and health care. Biomedical experts have built many large-scale knowledge bases (KBs) to advance the developm...
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is very important, and MRI is an effective imaging mode of Alzheimer's disease. There are many existing studies on the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease based on MRI data. However, there are no studies...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 28, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In medical examinations doctors use various techniques in order to provide to the patients an accurate analysis of their actual state of health. One of the commonly used methodologies is the x-ray screening. This examination...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 19, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: White matter lesions are non-static brain lesions that have a prevalence rate up to 98% in the elderly population. Because they may be associated with several brain diseases, it is important that they are detected as soon as...
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