Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: In this era of digitized health records, there has been a marked interest in using de-identified patient records for conducting various health related surveys. To assist in this research effort, we developed a novel clinical data represent...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: We assessed whether machine learning can be utilized to allow efficient extraction of infectious disease activity information from online media reports.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Cohort selection for clinical trials is a key step for clinical research. We proposed a hierarchical neural network to determine whether a patient satisfied selection criteria or not.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Identifying patients who meet selection criteria for clinical trials is typically challenging and time-consuming. In this article, we describe our clinical natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically assess patients' eligibil...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Active Learning (AL) attempts to reduce annotation cost (ie, time) by selecting the most informative examples for annotation. Most approaches tacitly (and unrealistically) assume that the cost for annotating each sample is identical. This ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Neural network-based representations ("embeddings") have dramatically advanced natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including clinical NLP tasks such as concept extraction. Recently, however, more advanced embedding methods and represe...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: In multi-label text classification, each textual document is assigned 1 or more labels. As an important task that has broad applications in biomedicine, a number of different computational methods have been proposed. Many of these methods,...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The 2018 National NLP Clinical Challenge (2018 n2c2) focused on the task of cohort selection for clinical trials, where participating systems were tasked with analyzing longitudinal patient records to determine if the patients met or did n...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing (NLP) engines such as the clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System are a solution for processing notes for research, but optimizing their performance for a clinical data warehouse remains a challen...
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