OBJECTIVE: As one of the most crucial upstream tasks in biomedical informatics, biomedical named entity normalization (BNEN) aims to map mentioned named entities to uniform standard identifiers or terms. Most existing methods only consider the simila...
BACKGROUND: Bipolar is a severe mental health condition affecting at least 2% of the global population, with clinical observations suggesting that individuals experiencing elevated mood states, such as mania or hypomania, may have an increased propen...
BACKGROUND: Data on the social determinants of health could be used to improve care, support quality improvement initiatives, and track progress toward health equity. However, this data collection is not widespread. Artificial intelligence (AI), spec...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Mar 6, 2025
Medical question answer (QA) assistants respond to lay users' health-related queries by synthesizing information from multiple sources using natural language processing and related techniques. They can serve as vital tools to alleviate issues of misi...
OBJECTIVE: Suicide risk assessment has historically relied heavily on clinical evaluations and patient self-reports. Natural language processing (NLP) of electronic health records (EHRs) provides an alternative approach for extracting risk predictors...
BACKGROUND: Natural language processing (NLP) has the potential to promote public health. However, applying these technologies in African health systems faces challenges, including limited digital and computational resources to support the continent'...
BACKGROUND: While the COVID-19 pandemic has induced massive discussion of available medications on social media, traditional studies focused only on limited aspects, such as public opinions, and endured reporting biases, inefficiency, and long collec...
INTRODUCTION: Accurate data capture is integral for research and quality improvement efforts. Unfortunately, limited guidance for defining and documenting regional anesthesia has resulted in wide variation in documentation practices, even within indi...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 4, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Automated surgical skill assessment using kinematic and video data (hard data) sources has been widely adopted in the literature. However, experts' opinions (soft data) in the form of free-text could be an invaluable source ...
BACKGROUND: Patients' oral expressions serve as valuable sources of clinical information to improve pharmacotherapy. Natural language processing (NLP) is a useful approach for analyzing unstructured text data, such as patient narratives. However, few...
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