PURPOSE: SEER registries do not report results of epidermal growth factor receptor () and anaplastic lymphoma kinase () mutation tests. To facilitate population-based research in molecularly defined subgroups of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), we...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
May 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: In biomedicine, there is a wealth of information hidden in unstructured narratives such as research articles and clinical reports. To exploit these data properly, a word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithm prevents downstream difficulties...
PURPOSE: Although the bulk of patient-generated health data are increasing exponentially, their use is impeded because most data come in unstructured format, namely as free-text clinical reports. A variety of natural language processing (NLP) methods...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Cohort definition is a bottleneck for conducting clinical research and depends on subjective decisions by domain experts. Data-driven cohort definition is appealing but requires substantial knowledge of terminologies and clinical data mode...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing (NLP) of symptoms from electronic health records (EHRs) could contribute to the advancement of symptom science. We aim to synthesize the literature on the use of NLP to process or analyze symptom information doc...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Automated understanding of consumer health inquiries might be hindered by misspellings. To detect and correct various types of spelling errors in consumer health questions, we developed a distributable spell-checking tool, CSpell, that han...
Background and Purpose- Triaging of referrals to transient ischemic attack (TIA) clinics is aided by risk stratification. Deep learning-based natural language processing, a type of machine learning, may be able to assist with the prediction of cerebr...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Alcohol misuse is present in over a quarter of trauma patients. Information in the clinical notes of the electronic health record of trauma patients may be used for phenotyping tasks with natural language processing (NLP) and supervised ma...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 1, 2019
We propose to use segment graph convolutional and recurrent neural networks (Seg-GCRNs), which use only word embedding and sentence syntactic dependencies, to classify relations from clinical notes without manual feature engineering. In this study, t...
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