Predicting innovation is a peculiar problem in data science. Following its definition, an innovation is always a never-seen-before event, leaving no room for traditional supervised learning approaches. Here we propose a strategy to address the proble...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Apr 29, 2020
BACKGROUND: Automated de-identification methods for removing protected health information (PHI) from the source notes of the electronic health record (EHR) rely on building systems to recognize mentions of PHI in text, but they remain inadequate at e...
Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy
Apr 27, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Rape-survivor identity is a sign of recovery and positive therapeutic progress among rape victims. This study is one of the few to focus on factors predicting self-labeling as a survivor among self-acknowledged rape victims by evaluating t...
PURPOSE: Natural language processing (NLP) can be used for automatic flagging of radiology reports. We assessed deep learning models for classifying non-English head CT reports.
International journal of medical informatics
Apr 25, 2020
INTRODUCTION: School violence has a far-reaching effect, impacting the entire school population including staff, students and their families. Among youth attending the most violent schools, studies have reported higher dropout rates, poor school atte...
International journal of medical informatics
Apr 23, 2020
BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a serious issue and demands effective clinical decision-making of patient disposition. In previous studies, emergency clinical narratives provide a rich context for clinical decisions. We ai...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Apr 20, 2020
Extending the size of labeled corpora of medical reports is a major step towards a successful training of machine learning algorithms. Simulating new text reports is a key solution for reports augmentation, which extends the cohort size. However, tex...
Diabetes mellitus has become a global threat, especially in the emerging economies. In the United States, there are about 24 million people with diabetes mellitus. Diabetes represents a trove of physiologic and sociologic data that are only superfici...
This work deals with negation detection in the context of clinical texts. Negation detection is a key for decision support systems since negated events (detection of absence of some events) help ascertain current medical conditions. For artificial in...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Apr 12, 2020
BACKGROUND: Intraoperative vascular injury (VI) may be an unavoidable complication of anterior lumbar spine surgery; however, vascular injury has implications for quality and safety reporting as this intraoperative complication may result in serious ...
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