Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: Social media is an important pharmacovigilance data source for adverse drug reaction (ADR) identification. Human review of social media data is infeasible due to data quantity, thus natural language processing techniques are necessary. Soc...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To develop automated classification methods for eligibility criteria in ClinicalTrials.gov to facilitate patient-trial matching for specific populations such as persons living with HIV or pregnant women.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
MetaMap is a widely used named entity recognition tool that identifies concepts from the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus in text. This study presents MetaMap Lite, an implementation of some of the basic MetaMap functions in Java. On sev...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: Every year, thousands of patients die waiting for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Some qualify for expedited service under the Compassionate Allowance (CAL) initiative, but CAL software focuses exclusively on i...
MOTIVATION: The extraction of sequence variants from the literature remains an important task. Existing methods primarily target standard (ST) mutation mentions (e.g. 'E6V'), leaving relevant mentions natural language (NL) largely untapped (e.g. 'glu...
We built a natural language processing (NLP) method to automatically extract clinical findings in radiology reports and characterize their level of change and significance according to a radiology-specific information model. We utilized a combination...
American journal of speech-language pathology
May 17, 2017
PURPOSE: This research provided a first-generation standardization of automated language environment estimates, validated these estimates against standard language assessments, and extended on previous research reporting language behavior differences...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to develop a practical framework for recognizing and disambiguating clinical abbreviations, thereby improving current clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems' capability to handle abbreviations in clin...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes a new congestive heart failure (CHF) treatment performance measure information extraction system - CHIEF - developed as part of the Automated Data Acquisition for Heart Failure project, a Veterans Health Administration...
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