BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: Accurately recognizing rare diseases based on symptom description is an important task in patient triage, early risk stratification, and target therapies. However, due to the very nature of rare diseases, the lack of historical data poses...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: To detect attributes of medical concepts in clinical text, a traditional method often consists of two steps: named entity recognition of attributes and then relation classification between medical concepts and attributes. Here we present ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: De-identification is a critical technology to facilitate the use of unstructured clinical text while protecting patient privacy and confidentiality. The clinical natural language processing (NLP) community has invested great efforts in de...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: Extracting useful information from biomedical literature plays an important role in the development of modern medicine. In natural language processing, there have been rigorous attempts to find meaningful relationships between entities au...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 5, 2019
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer for men and women; the wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) offers a potential to accelerate cohort-related epidemiological studies using informatics approaches. Since manual extra...
Neuromodulation modalities are used as effective treatments for some brain disorders. Non-invasive deep brain stimulation (NDBS) via temporally interfering electric fields has emerged recently as a non-invasive strategy for electrically stimulating d...
Compared with conventional gastroscopy which is invasive and painful, wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) can provide noninvasive examination of gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The WCE video can effectively support physicians to reach a diagnostic decision...
Ring artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images are caused by the undesirable response of detector pixels, which leads to the degradation of CT images. Accordingly, it affects the image interpretation, post-processing, and quantitative analysis. In...
Positron emission tomography (PET) scanners continue to increase sensitivity and axial coverage by adding an ever expanding array of block detectors. As they age, one or more block detectors may lose sensitivity due to a malfunction or component fail...
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