Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
For patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, determining symptom onset is crucial for timely and successful intervention. In mental health records, information about early symptoms is often documented only in free text, and thus needs to be extrac...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Suicidal ideation is a risk factor for self-harm, completed suicide and can be indicative of mental health issues. Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group, but few studies have examined suicidal behaviour prevalence in large cohorts. Electron...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
NimbleMiner is a word embedding-based, language-agnostic natural language processing system for clinical text classification. Previously, NimbleMiner was applied in English and this study applied NimbleMiner on a large sample of inpatient clinical no...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Prescription information and adverse drug reactions (ADR) are two components of detailed medication instructions that can benefit many aspects of clinical research. Automatic extraction of this information from free-text narratives via Information Ex...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Although a number of foundational natural language processing (NLP) tasks like text segmentation are considered a simple problem in the general English domain dominated by well-formed text, complexities of clinical documentation lead to poor performa...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
In this paper, we trained a set of Portuguese clinical word embedding models of different granularities from multi-specialty and multi-institutional clinical narrative datasets. Then, we assessed their impact on a downstream biomedical NLP task of Ur...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Structuring raw medical documents with ontology mapping is now the next step for medical intelligence. Deep learning models take as input mathematically embedded information, such as encoded texts. To do so, word embedding methods can represent every...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Hospital systems frequently implement quality measures to quantify healthcare processes and patient outcomes. One such measure that has previously been used is the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) quality measure of perioperative beta blocker...
PURPOSE: Medical records contain a wealth of useful, informative data points valuable for clinical research. Most data points are stored in semistructured or unstructured legacy documents and require manual data abstraction into a structured format t...
PURPOSE: Quantifying the risk of cancer associated with pathogenic mutations in germline cancer susceptibility genes-that is, penetrance-enables the personalization of preventive management strategies. Conducting a meta-analysis is the best way to ob...
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