AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
Clinical trial coordinators refer to both structured and unstructured sources of data when evaluating a subject for eligibility. While some eligibility criteria can be resolved using structured data, some require manual review of clinical notes. An i...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
We present an approach for manually and automatically classifying the resource type of medical questions. Three types of resources are considered: patient-specific, general knowledge, and research. Using this approach, an automatic question answering...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
Determining the main topics in consumer health questions is a crucial step in their processing as it allows narrowing the search space to a specific semantic context. In this paper we propose a topic recognition approach based on biomedical and open-...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
Time is an important aspect of information and is very useful for information utilization. The goal of this study was to analyze the challenges of temporal expression (TE) extraction and normalization in Chinese clinical notes by assessing the perfor...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
Classification of drug-drug interaction (DDI) from medical literatures is significant in preventing medication-related errors. Most of the existing machine learning approaches are based on supervised learning methods. However, the dynamic nature of d...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 10, 2017
With the increasing heterogeneity and specialization of medical texts, automated question answering is becoming more and more challenging. In this context, answering a given medical question by retrieving similar questions that are already answered b...
This research manages in-depth analysis on the knowledge about spams and expects to propose an efficient spam filtering method with the ability of adapting to the dynamic environment. We focus on the analysis of email's header and apply decision tree...
Efforts to improve the treatment of congestive heart failure, a common and serious medical condition, include the use of quality measures to assess guideline-concordant care. The goal of this study is to identify left ventricular ejection fraction (L...
BACKGROUND: Several query federation engines have been proposed for accessing public Linked Open Data sources. However, in many domains, resources are sensitive and access to these resources is tightly controlled by stakeholders; consequently, privac...
OBJECTIVE: The utility of biomedical information retrieval environments can be severely limited when users lack expertise in constructing effective search queries. To address this issue, we developed a computer-based query recommendation algorithm th...