CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology
Sep 29, 2018
Drug metabolites (DMs) are critical in pharmacology research areas, such as drug metabolism pathways and drug-drug interactions. However, there is no terminology dictionary containing comprehensive drug metabolite names, and there is no named entity ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Sep 14, 2018
BACKGROUND: Clinical notes such as discharge summaries have a semi- or unstructured format. These documents contain information about diseases, treatments, drugs, etc. Extracting meaningful information from them becomes challenging due to their narra...
BACKGROUND: Word embeddings have been prevalently used in biomedical Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications due to the ability of the vector representations being able to capture useful semantic properties and linguistic relationships between...
A wealth of knowledge concerning relations between genes and its associated diseases is present in biomedical literature. Mining these biological associations from literature can provide immense support to research ranging from drug-targetable pathwa...
Deep learning techniques, e.g., Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have been explosively applied to the research in the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing. However, few research efforts have addressed semantic indexing...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 23, 2018
BACKGROUND: There is strong scientific evidence linking obesity and overweight to the risk of various cancers and to cancer survivorship. Nevertheless, the existing online information about the relationship between obesity and cancer is poorly organi...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 23, 2018
BACKGROUND: Extracting relationships between chemicals and diseases from unstructured literature have attracted plenty of attention since the relationships are very useful for a large number of biomedical applications such as drug repositioning and p...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 23, 2018
BACKGROUND: Relationships between bio-entities (genes, proteins, diseases, etc.) constitute a significant part of our knowledge. Most of this information is documented as unstructured text in different forms, such as books, articles and on-line pages...
Question answering (QA) system is becoming the focus of the research in medical health in terms of providing fleetly accurate answers to users. Numerous traditional QA systems are faced to simple factual questions and do not obtain accurate answers f...
OBJECTIVES: Despite their essential role in collecting and organizing published medical literature, indexed search engines are unable to cover all relevant knowledge. Hence, current literature recommends the inclusion of clinical trial registries in ...