Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
Apr 1, 2021
For a long time, gut bacteria have been recognized for their important roles in the occurrence and progression of gastrointestinal diseases like colorectal cancer, and the ever-increasing amounts of microbiome data combined with other high-quality cl...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to develop and evaluate a knowledge-based data augmentation method to improve the performance of deep learning models for biomedical natural language processing by overcoming training data scarcity.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: To develop an algorithm for building longitudinal medication dose datasets using information extracted from clinical notes in electronic health records (EHRs).
MOTIVATION: The development of deep, bidirectional transformers such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) led to an outperformance of several Natural Language Processing (NLP) benchmarks. Especially in radiology, large am...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 15, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a tremendous need for access to the latest scientific information, leading to both corpora for COVID-19 literature and search engines to query such data. While most search engine research is performed in academia...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 15, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting a disproportionate impact on minorities in terms of infection rate, hospitalizations, and mortality. Many believe artificial intelligence (AI) is a solution to guide clinical decision-making for this novel disease,...
The Mouse Genome Database (MGD; http://www.informatics.jax.org) is the community model organism knowledgebase for the laboratory mouse, a widely used animal model for comparative studies of the genetic and genomic basis for human health and disease. ...
Natural language processing (NLP) is widely applied in biological domains to retrieve information from publications. Systems to address numerous applications exist, such as biomedical named entity recognition (BNER), named entity normalization (NEN) ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Developing algorithms to extract phenotypes from electronic health records (EHRs) can be challenging and time-consuming. We developed PheMap, a high-throughput phenotyping approach that leverages multiple independent, online resources to s...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: We explored how knowledge embeddings (KEs) learned from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus impact the quality of relation extraction on 2 diverse sets of biomedical texts.