AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
A computational phenotype is a set of clinically relevant and interesting characteristics that describe patients with a given condition. Various machine learning methods have been proposed to derive phenotypes in an automatic, high-throughput manner....
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Blood hemoglobin level (Hgb) measurement has a vital role in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of numerous diseases. We describe the use of smartphone video imaging and an artificial neural network (ANN) system to estimate Hgb levels non-inva...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Automating the extraction of behavioral criteria indicative of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in electronic health records (EHRs) can contribute significantly to the effort to monitor the condition. Word embedding algorithms such as Word2Vec can enco...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
BioPortal is widely regarded to be the world's most comprehensive repository of biomedical ontologies. With a coverage of many biomedical subfields by 716 ontologies (June 27, 2018), BioPortal is an extremely diverse repository. BioPortal maintains e...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Most existing studies used logistic regression to establish scoring systems to predict intensive care unit (ICU) mortality. Machine learning-based approaches can achieve higher prediction accuracy but, unlike the scoring systems, frequently cannot pr...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. NAFLD patients have excessive liver fat (steatosis), without other liver diseases and without excessive alcohol consumption. NAFLD consists of a spectr...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) are environmental and behavioral factors that are increasingly recognized for their impact on health outcomes. We describe ongoing research to extract SBDH related to sexual health from clinical doc...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Medication doses, one of the determining factors in medication safety and effectiveness, are present in the literature, but only in free-text form. We set out to determine if the systems developed for extracting drug prescription information from cli...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
U.S. military veterans who were discharged from service for misconduct are at high risk for homelessness. Stratifying homelessness risk based on both military service factors and clinical characteristics could facilitate targeted provision of prevent...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Digital rectal examination (DRE) is considered a quality metric for prostate cancer care. However, much of the DRE related rich information is documented as free-text in clinical narratives. Therefore, we aimed to develop a natural language processin...
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