AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Manually annotated clinical corpora are commonly used as the gold standards for the training and evaluation of clinical natural language processing (NLP) tools. The creation of these manual annotation corpora, however, is both costly and time-consumi...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Reviewing radiology reports in emergency departments is an essential but laborious task. Timely follow-up of patients with abnormal cases in their radiology reports may dramatically affect the patient's outcome, especially if they have been discharge...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Automating the extraction of behavioral criteria indicative of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in electronic health records (EHRs) can contribute significantly to the effort to monitor the condition. Word embedding algorithms such as Word2Vec can enco...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) are environmental and behavioral factors that are increasingly recognized for their impact on health outcomes. We describe ongoing research to extract SBDH related to sexual health from clinical doc...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Digital rectal examination (DRE) is considered a quality metric for prostate cancer care. However, much of the DRE related rich information is documented as free-text in clinical narratives. Therefore, we aimed to develop a natural language processin...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Much of the critical information in a patient's electronic health record (EHR) is hidden in unstructured text. As such, there is an increasing role for automated text extraction and summarization to make this information available in a way that can b...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a syndrome of respiratory failure that may be identified using text from radiology reports. The objective of this study was to determine whether natural language processing (NLP) with machine learning per...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a validated instrument for assessing depression severity. While some electronic health record (EHR) systems capture PHQ-9 scores in a structured format, unstructured clinical notes remain the only source ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 4, 2018
BACKGROUND: Extracting primary care information in terms of Patient/Problem, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome, known as PICO elements, is difficult as the volume of medical information expands and the health semantics is complex to capture it fro...
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