AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Rare diseases, although individually rare, collectively affect one in ten Americans. Because of their rarity, patients with rare diseases are typically left misdiagnosed or undiagnosed, which leads to a prolonged medical journey. The diagnosis pathwa...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Cancer stage is rarely captured in structured form in the electronic health record (EHR). We evaluate the performance of a classifier, trained on structured EHR data, in identifying prostate cancer patients with metastatic disease. Using EHR data for...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
.Summary-level clinical text is an important part of the overall clinical record as it provides a condensed and efficient view into the issues pertinent to the patient, or their "problem list." These problem lists contain a wealth of information pert...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Dentists are more often treating patients with Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) in their clinics; therefore, dentists may need to alter treatment plans in the presence of CVD. However, it's unclear to what extent patient-reported CVD information is accu...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Conventional text classification models make a bag-of-words assumption reducing text into word occurrence counts per document. Recent algorithms such as word2vec are capable of learning semantic meaning and similarity between words in an entirely uns...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Substance abuse carries many negative health consequences. Detailed information about patients' substance abuse history is usually captured in free-text clinical notes. Automatic extraction of substance abuse information is vital to assess patients' ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Clusters of differentiation () are cell surface biomarkers that denote key biological differences between cell types and disease state. CD-targeting therapeutic monoclonal antibodies () afford rich trans-disease repositioning opportunities. Within a ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Providing medical trainees with effective feedback is critical to the successful development of their diagnostic reasoning skills. We present the design of DrKnow, a web-based learning application that utilises a clinical decision support system (CDS...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
UNLABELLED: The key to any computational drug repositioning is the availability of relevant data in machine-understandable format. While large amount of genetic, genomic and chemical data are publicly available, large-scale higher-level disease and d...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Accurate image-based medical diagnosis relies upon adequate image quality and clarity. This has important implications for clinical diagnosis, and for emerging methods such as telemedicine and computer-based image analysis. In this study, we trained ...
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