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
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
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
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
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
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
Reviewing radiology reports in emergency departments is an essential but laborious task. Timely follow-up of patients with abnormal cases in their radiology reports may dramatically affect the patient's outcome, especially if they have been discharge...
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
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
Much of the critical information in a patient's electronic health record (EHR) is hidden in unstructured text. As such, there is an increasing role for automated text extraction and summarization to make this information available in a way that can b...
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