Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
We present on the performance evaluation of machine learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) based Section Header classification. The section headers classification task was performed as a two-pass system. The first pass detects a section ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
A new natural language processing (NLP) application for COVID-19 related information extraction from clinical text notes is being developed as part of our pandemic response efforts. This NLP application called DECOVRI (Data Extraction for COVID-19 Re...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
Bidirectional recurrent neural networks (RNN) improved performance of various natural language processing tasks and recently have been used for diagnosis prediction. Advantages of general bidirectional RNN, however, are not readily applied to diagnos...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been adopted widely in clinical trial matching for its ability to process unstructured text that is often found in electronic health records. Despite the rise in the new tools that use NLP to match patients to el...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
We evaluate the performance of multiple text classification methods used to automate the screening of article abstracts in terms of their relevance to a topic of interest. The aim is to develop a system that can be first trained on a set of manually ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
Core outcome sets (COS) are necessary to ensure the systematic collection, metadata analysis and sharing the information across studies. However, development of an area-specific clinical research is costly and time consuming. ClinicalTrials.gov, as a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
Meta-analyses examine the results of different clinical studies to determine whether a treatment is effective or not. Meta-analyses provide the gold standard for medical evidence. Despite their importance, meta-analyses are time-consuming and this po...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
Complex interventions are ubiquitous in healthcare. A lack of computational representations and information extraction solutions for complex interventions hinders accurate and efficient evidence synthesis. In this study, we manually annotated and ana...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
Cancer screening and timely follow-up of abnormal results can reduce mortality. One barrier to follow-up is the failure to identify abnormal results. While EHRs have coded results for certain tests, cancer screening results are often stored in free-t...
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