Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
We report on a study of our custom Hootation software for the purposes of assessing its ability to produce clear and accurate natural language phrases from axioms embedded in three biomedical ontologies. Using multiple domain experts and three discre...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Semantic relations have been studied for decades without yet reaching consensus on the set of these relations. However, biomedical language processing and ontologies rely on these relations, so it is important to be able to evaluate their suitability...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Search techniques in clinical text need to make fine-grained semantic distinctions, since medical terms may be negated, about someone other than the patient, or at some time other than the present. While natural language processing (NLP) approaches a...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Uncovering clinical research trends allows us to understand the direction of healthcare services and is essential for longer-term healthcare planning. The Hospital Authority Convention is a mainstream annual healthcare conference that gathers up-to-d...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Opioid dependence and overdose is on the rise. One indicator is the increasing trends of prescription buprenorphine use among patient on chronic pain medication. In addition to the New York State Department of Health's prescription drug monitoring pr...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Clinical narratives are typically produced under time pressure, which incites the use of abbreviations and acronyms. To expand such short forms in a correct way eases text comprehension and further semantic processing. We propose a completely unsuper...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Concept mapping is important in natural language processing (NLP) for bioinformatics. The UMLS Metathesaurus provides a rich synonym thesaurus and is a popular resource for concept mapping. Query expansion using synonyms for subterm substitutions is ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Laboratory test names are used as basic information to diagnose diseases. However, this kind of medical information is usually written in a natural language. To find this information, lexicon based methods have been good solutions but they cannot fin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The World Health Organization has declared Bangladesh one of 58 countries facing acute Human Resources for Health (HRH) crisis. Artificial intelligence in healthcare has been shown to be successful for diagnostics. Using machine learning to predict p...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
There is need for cataloging signs and symptoms, but not all are documented in structured data. The text from clinical records are an additional source of signs and symptoms. We describe a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique to identify sympt...
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