Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Developing predictive modeling in medicine requires additional features from unstructured clinical texts. In Russia, there are no instruments for natural language processing to cope with problems of medical records. This paper is devoted to a module ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Acronyms frequently occur in clinical text, which makes their identification, disambiguation and resolution an important task in clinical natural language processing. This paper contributes to acronym resolution in Spanish through the creation of a s...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
This paper presents five document retrieval systems for a small (few thousands) and domain specific corpora (weekly peer-reviewed medical journals published in French) as well as an evaluation methodology to quantify the models performance. The propo...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Radiology reports include various types of clinical information that are used for patient care. Reports are also expected to have secondary uses (e.g., clinical research and the development of decision support systems). For secondary use, it is neces...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Identifying adverse events in clinical documents is demanded in retrospective clinical research and prospective monitoring of treatment safety and cost-effectiveness. We proposed and evaluated a few methods of semi-automated muscle weakness detection...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a long-term illness with a wide range of symptoms and condition trajectories. To improve the understanding of these, automated analysis of large amounts of patient data holds promise. Routinely documented assessments...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Electronic health records contain valuable information on patients' clinical history in the form of free text. Manually analyzing millions of these documents is unfeasible and automatic natural language processing methods are essential for efficientl...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
The objective of this study is to develop a method for clinical abbreviation disambiguation using deep contextualized representation and cluster analysis. We employed the pre-trained BioELMo language model to generate the contextualized word vector f...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Word embeddings have become the predominant representation scheme on a token-level for various clinical natural language processing (NLP) tasks. More recently, character-level neural language models, exploiting recurrent neural networks, have again r...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Studies have shown that mental health and comorbidities such as dementia, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are risk factors for dialysis patients. Extracting accurate and timely information associated with these risk factors in the patient health...
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