Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2017
OBJECTIVES: Identifying all published reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is an important aim, but it requires extensive manual effort to separate RCTs from non-RCTs, even using current machine learning (ML) approaches. We aimed to make th...
The availability of user-friendly software to annotate biological datasets and experimental details is becoming essential in data management practices, both in local storage systems and in public databases. The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS, http://ww...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
MetaMap is a widely used named entity recognition tool that identifies concepts from the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus in text. This study presents MetaMap Lite, an implementation of some of the basic MetaMap functions in Java. On sev...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: Every year, thousands of patients die waiting for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Some qualify for expedited service under the Compassionate Allowance (CAL) initiative, but CAL software focuses exclusively on i...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
May 1, 2017
We present a novel stringmol-based artificial chemistry system modelled on the universal constructor architecture (UCA) first explored by von Neumann. In a UCA, machines interact with an abstract description of themselves to replicate by copying the ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes a new congestive heart failure (CHF) treatment performance measure information extraction system - CHIEF - developed as part of the Automated Data Acquisition for Heart Failure project, a Veterans Health Administration...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The infobuttons allows the solving of information needs. In our study, the use of Infobuttons is described, analyzing the number of queries to UpToDate® from the problem list of an Electronic Health Record. There were 26419 requests in 8 months. The ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
NLP-PIER (Natural Language Processing - Patient Information Extraction for Research) is a self-service platform with a search engine for clinical researchers to perform natural language processing (NLP) queries using clinical notes. We conducted user...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Disease ontology, defined as a causal chain of abnormal states, is believed to be a valuable knowledge base in medical information systems. Automatic mapping between electronic health records (EHR) and disease ontology is indispensable for applying d...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
This study sought to use ontology-based knowledge to identify patients with rare diseases and to estimate the frequency of those diseases in a large database of radiology reports. Natural language processing methods were applied to 12,377,743 narrari...