Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 8, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In recent decades, cancer has become one of the most fatal and destructive diseases which is threatening humans life. Accordingly, different types of cancer treatment are studied with the main aim to have the best treatment...
The western journal of emergency medicine
Feb 14, 2019
Health informatics is a vital technology that holds great promise in the healthcare setting. We describe two prominent health informatics tools relevant to emergency care, as well as the historical background and the current state of informatics. We ...
Biomedical question answering (QA) is a challenging task that has not been yet successfully solved, according to results on international benchmarks, such as BioASQ. Recent progress on deep neural networks has led to promising results in domain indep...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 31, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The quality of data is crucial for clinical registry studies as it impacts credibility. In the regular practice of most such studies, a vulnerability arises from researchers recording data on paper-based case report forms (C...
INTRODUCTION: This accompanying editorial provides a brief introduction to this focus theme, focused on "Machine Learning and Data Analytics in Pervasive Health".
OBJECTIVE: Misspellings in clinical free text present challenges to natural language processing. With an objective to identify misspellings and their corrections, we developed a prototype spelling analysis method that implements Word2Vec, Levenshtein...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 12, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Electronic Health Record (EHR) data often include observation records that are unlikely to represent the "truth" about a patient at a given clinical encounter. Due to their high throughput, examples of such implausible obser...
International journal of medical informatics
Dec 31, 2018
BACKGROUND: Semantic interoperability of eHealth services within and across countries has been the main topic in several research projects. It is a key consideration for the European Commission to overcome the complexity of making different health in...
IMPORTANCE: Despite data aggregation and removal of protected health information, there is concern that deidentified physical activity (PA) data collected from wearable devices can be reidentified. Organizations collecting or distributing such data s...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 6, 2018
Our goal is data-driven discovery of features for text simplification. In this paper, we investigate three types of lexical chains: exact, synonymous, and semantic. A lexical chain links semantically related words in a document. We examine their pote...
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