Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Normalizing clinical mentions to concepts in standardized medical terminologies, in general, is challenging due to the complexity and variety of the terms in narrative medical records. In this article, we introduce our work on a clinical n...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to explore the use of deep learning techniques to measure the semantic relatedness between Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The 2019 National Natural language processing (NLP) Clinical Challenges (n2c2)/Open Health NLP (OHNLP) shared task track 3, focused on medical concept normalization (MCN) in clinical records. This track aimed to assess the state of the art...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the need for additional coverage of dietary supplements (DS) in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by investigating (1) the overlap between the integrated DIetary Supplements Knowledge base (iDISK) DS ingredient...
This cross-sectional study applies natural language processing to electronic health records from a large health care delivery system to examine performance status documentation among patients newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Concept normalization, the task of linking phrases in text to concepts in an ontology, is useful for many downstream tasks including relation extraction, information retrieval, etc. We present a generate-and-rank concept normalization syst...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to evaluate the feasibility of using Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic features for automated identification of reports about patient safety incidents by type and severity.
Over the past decade, rapid development in biological and chemical technologies such as high-throughput screening, parallel synthesis, has been significantly increased the amount of data, which requires the creation and the integration of new analyti...
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