AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases that affects tens of millions of Americans. PD is highly progressive and heterogeneous. Quite a few studies have been conducted in recent years on predictive or disease ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Disease-symptom relation is an important biomedical relation that can be used for clinical decision support including building medical diagnostic systems. Here we present a study on mining disease-symptom relation from massive biomedical literature a...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
There has been an increasing interest in developing deep learning methods to recognize clinical concepts from narrative clinical text. Recently, several studies have reported that Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) outperformed traditional machine lear...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Despite the increasing prevalence, growing costs, and high mortality of dementia in older adults in the U.S., little is known about the course of these diseases and what care dementia patients receive in their final years of life. Using a large volum...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Concept detection is an integral step in natural language processing (NLP) applications in the clinical domain. Clinical concepts are detailed (e.g., "pain in left/right upper/lower arm/leg") and expressed in diverse phrase types (e.g., noun, verb, a...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Detecting negation in biomedical texts entails the automatic identification of negation cues (e.g. "never", "not", "no longer") as well as the scope of these cues. When medical concepts or terms are identified within the scope of a negation cue, thei...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
The prediction of patient mortality, which can detect high-risk patients, is a significant yet challenging problem in medical informatics. Thanks to the wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), many data-driven methods have been proposed to...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Sepsis is the leading cause of mortality in the ICU. It is challenging to manage because individual patients respond differently to treatment. Thus, tailoring treatment to the individual patient is essential for the best outcomes. In this paper, we t...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Regardless of potential benefits and better outcomes, adoption of shared decision-making between a patient and providers involved in his/her care is still in its infancy. This paper intends to fill this gap by formalizing shared decision-making, situ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
This study investigated the automated detection of antiretroviral toxicities in structured electronic health records data. The evaluation compared responses generated by 5 clinical pharmacists and 1 prototype knowledge-based application for 15 random...
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