Clinical named entity recognition (CNER) is a fundamental and crucial task for clinical and translation research. In recent years, deep learning methods have achieved significant success in CNER tasks. However, these methods depend greatly on recurre...
OBJECTIVE: Routinely collected healthcare data are a powerful research resource but often lack detailed disease-specific information that is collected in clinical free text, for example, clinic letters. We aim to use natural language processing techn...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Apr 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: While doctors should analyze a large amount of electronic medical record (EMR) data to conduct clinical research, the analyzing process requires information technology (IT) skills, which is difficult for most doctors in China.
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Mar 20, 2019
Coreference resolution is a challenging part of natural language processing (NLP) with applications in machine translation, semantic search and other information retrieval, and decision support systems. Coreference resolution requires linguistic prep...
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Mar 15, 2019
Neural embeddings are widely used in language modeling and feature generation with superior computational power. Particularly, neural document embedding - converting texts of variable-length to semantic vector representations - has shown to benefit w...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Mar 14, 2019
BACKGROUND: Social isolation is an important social determinant that impacts health outcomes and mortality among patients. The National Academy of Medicine recently recommended that social isolation be documented in electronic health records (EHR). H...
IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering
Mar 12, 2019
Dementia is a chronic and degenerative condition affecting millions globally. The care of patients with dementia presents an ever-continuing challenge to healthcare systems in the 21st century. Medical and health sciences have generated unprecedented...
BACKGROUND: Improper dosing of medications such as insulin can cause hypoglycemic episodes, which may lead to severe morbidity or even death. Although secure messaging was designed for exchanging nonurgent messages, patients sometimes report hypoglyc...
Literature Based Discovery (LBD) refers to the problem of inferring new and interesting knowledge by logically connecting independent fragments of information units through explicit or implicit means. This area of research, which incorporates techniq...
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Mar 8, 2019
We define behavior as a set of actions performed by some actor during a period of time. We consider the problem of analyzing a large collection of behaviors by multiple actors, more specifically, identifying typical behaviors and spotting anomalous b...
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