PURPOSE: Robust institutional tumor banks depend on continuous sample curation or else subsequent biopsy or resection specimens are overlooked after initial enrollment. Curation automation is hindered by semistructured free-text clinical pathology no...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to address deficiencies in structured electronic health record (EHR) data for race and ethnicity by identifying black and Hispanic patients from unstructured clinical notes and assessing differences between patients with or withou...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Geriatric syndromes such as functional disability and lack of social support are often not encoded in electronic health records (EHRs), thus obscuring the identification of vulnerable older adults in need of additional medical and social s...
Radiological measurements are reported in free text reports, and it is challenging to extract such measures for treatment planning such as lesion summarization and cancer response assessment. The purpose of this work is to develop and evaluate a natu...
Unstructured and semi-structured radiology reports represent an underutilized trove of information for machine learning (ML)-based clinical informatics applications, including abnormality tracking systems, research cohort identification, point-of-car...
BACKGROUND: Structured reports are not widely used and thus most reports exist in the form of free text. The process of data extraction by experts is time-consuming and error-prone, whereas data extraction by natural language processing (NLP) is a po...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 4, 2019
Structuring and processing natural language is a growing challenge in the medical field. Researchers are looking for new ways to extract knowledge to create databases and applications to help doctors treat patients and minimize medical errors. A very...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 4, 2019
Rich-in-morphology language, such as Russian, present a challenge for extraction of professional medical information. In this paper, we report on our solution to identify adverse events (complications) in neurosurgery based on natural language proces...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Continuous monitoring the safe use of medication is an important task in pharmacovigilance. The first-hand experiences of medication effects come from the consumers of the pharmaceuticals. Social media have been considered as a possible alternative d...
PURPOSE: Cancer pathology findings are critical for many aspects of care but are often locked away as unstructured free text. Our objective was to develop a natural language processing (NLP) system to extract prostate pathology details from postopera...
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