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...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Search techniques in clinical text need to make fine-grained semantic distinctions, since medical terms may be negated, about someone other than the patient, or at some time other than the present. While natural language processing (NLP) approaches a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In health question answering (QA) system development, question topic identification is crucial to understand users' information needs and further facilitate answer extraction. This paper presented a machine-learning method to automatically identify t...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Patient history of sexual trauma is of clinical relevance to healthcare providers as survivors face adverse health-related outcomes. This paper describes a method for identifying mentions of sexual trauma within the free text of electronic medical no...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
We present a recommender system, PubMedReco, for real-time suggestions of medical articles from PubMed, a database of over 23 million medical citations. PubMedReco can recommend medical article citations while users are conversing in a synchronous co...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
As information available through data repositories constantly grows, the need for automated mechanisms for linking, querying, and sharing data has become a relevant factor both in research and industry. This situation is more evident in research fiel...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Routine patient data in electronic patient records are only partly structured, and an even smaller segment is coded, mainly for administrative purposes. Large parts are only available as free text. Transforming this content into a structured and sema...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
We investigate the application of distributional semantics models for facilitating unsupervised extraction of biomedical terms from unannotated corpora. Term extraction is used as the first step of an ontology learning process that aims to (semi-)aut...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
"A solid ontology-based analysis with a rigorous formal mapping for correctness" is one of the ten reasons why the HL7 standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is advertised to be better than other standards for EHR interoperability...
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