OBJECTIVE: This study aims to develop and evaluate effective methods that can normalize diagnosis and procedure terms written by physicians to standard concepts in International Classification of Diseases(ICD) in Chinese, with the goal to facilitate ...
International journal of medical informatics
Apr 9, 2020
UNLABELLED: Cancer registries are collections of curated data about malignant tumor diseases. The amount of data processed by cancer registries increases every year, making manual registration more and more tedious.
International journal of medical informatics
Apr 4, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Accurate coding is critical for medical billing and electronic medical record (EMR)-based research. Recent research has been focused on developing supervised methods to automatically assign International Classification of Diseases (ICD) co...
PURPOSE: Identification of patients for epidemiologic research through administrative coding has important limitations. We investigated the feasibility of a search based on natural language processing (NLP) on the text sections of electronic health r...
BACKGROUND: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare disease with studies limited by small sample sizes. Electronic health records (EHRs) represent a powerful tool to study patients with rare diseases such as SSc, but validated methods are needed. We devel...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Dec 10, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: This work deals with clinical text mining, a field of Natural Language Processing applied to biomedical informatics. The aim is to classify Electronic Health Records with respect to the International Classification of Diseas...
BACKGROUND: Secondary and retrospective use of hospital-hosted clinical data provides a time- and cost-efficient alternative to prospective clinical trials for biomarker development. This study aims to create a retrospective clinical dataset of Magne...
OBJECTIVE: Models for predicting preterm birth generally have focused on very preterm (28-32 weeks) and moderate to late preterm (32-37 weeks) settings. However, extreme preterm birth (EPB), before the 28th week of gestational age, accounts for the m...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Oct 25, 2019
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) not only serves as the bedrock for health statistics but also provides a holistic overview of every health aspect of life. This study aims to facilitate the computer-assisted coding of the 11th revis...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Aug 19, 2019
BACKGROUND: Machine learning has been used extensively in clinical text classification tasks. Deep learning approaches using word embeddings have been recently gaining momentum in biomedical applications. In an effort to automate the identification o...
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