Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
The existence of annotated text corpora is essential for the development of public health services and tools based on natural language processing (NLP) and text mining. Recently organized biomedical NLP shared tasks have provided annotated corpora re...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2019
Despite using electronic medical records, free narrative text is still widely used for medical records. Such text cannot be analyzed by statistical tools and be proceed by decision support systems. To make data from texts available for such tasks a s...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
A rich source of chemical-protein interactions (CPIs) is locked in the exponentially growing biomedical literature. Automatic extraction of CPIs is a crucial task in biomedical natural language processing (NLP), which has great benefits for pharmacol...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2019
In medical education Virtual Patients (VP) are often applied to train students in different scenarios such as recording the patient's medical history or deciding a treatment option. Usually, such interactions are predefined by software logic and data...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2019
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer is common, characterized by high mortality, and includes oesophagus, gastric, liver, bile duct, pancreas, rectal and colon cancers. The insufficient specificity and sensitivity of biomarkers is still a key clinical hindra...
Trends in hearing
Jan 1, 2019
This article provides a tutorial for analyzing pupillometric data. Pupil dilation has become increasingly popular in psychological and psycholinguistic research as a measure to trace language processing. However, there is no general consensus about p...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2019
Phylogeography research involving virus spread and tree reconstruction relies on accurate geographic locations of infected hosts. Insufficient level of geographic information in nucleotide sequence repositories such as GenBank motivates the use of na...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2019
Biomedical association studies are increasingly done using clinical concepts, and in particular diagnostic codes from clinical data repositories as phenotypes. Clinical concepts can be represented in a meaningful, vector space using word embedding mo...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2019
EHR-based, computable phenotypes can be leveraged by healthcare organizations and researchers to improve the cohort identification process. The ability to identify patient cohorts using aspects of care and outcomes based on clinical characteristics o...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Jan 1, 2019
The automatic analysis of conversational audio remains difficult, in part, due to the presence of multiple talkers speaking in turns, often with significant intonation variations and overlapping speech. The majority of prior work on psychoacoustic sp...