BACKGROUND: This article provides an overview of the first BIOASQ challenge, a competition on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which took place between March and September 2013. BIOASQ assesses the ability of syst...
BACKGROUND: Semantic approaches such as concept-based information retrieval rely on a corpus in which resources are indexed by concepts belonging to a domain ontology. In order to keep such applications up-to-date, new entities need to be frequently ...
BACKGROUND: Controlled vocabularies such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are widely used for biomedical natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the standard terminology in such collections s...
INTRODUCTION: The ambiguity of biomedical abbreviations is one of the challenges in biomedical text mining systems. In particular, the handling of term variants and abbreviations without nearby definitions is a critical issue. In this study, we adopt...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
May 23, 2014
Modern medical information retrieval systems are paramount to manage the insurmountable quantities of clinical data. These systems empower health care experts in the diagnosis of patients and play an important role in the clinical decision process. H...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2024
OBJECTIVES: To enhance and evaluate the quality of PubMed search results for Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) through the addition of new SDoH terms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
BACKGROUND:: Little systematic information has been collected about the nature and types of articles published in 2 journals by identifying the latent topics and analyzing the extracted research themes and sentiments using text mining and machine lea...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to explore the use of deep learning techniques to measure the semantic relatedness between Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to create an integrated vocabulary system that addresses the lack of standardized health terminology in gender and sexual orientation.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
This paper presents five document retrieval systems for a small (few thousands) and domain specific corpora (weekly peer-reviewed medical journals published in French) as well as an evaluation methodology to quantify the models performance. The propo...