Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Recently, machine-learning techniques have spread many fields. However, machine-learning is still not popular in medical research field due to difficulty of interpreting. In this paper, we introduce a method of interpreting medical information using ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Automated detection methods can address delays and incompleteness in cancer case reporting. Existing automated efforts are largely dependent on complex dictionaries and coded data. Using a gold standard of manually reviewed pathology reports, we eval...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The objective of the SYNODOS collaborative project was to develop a generic IT solution, combining a medical terminology server, a semantic analyser and a knowledge base. The goal of the project was to generate meaningful epidemiological data for var...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Authors evaluated supervised automatic classification algorithms for determination of health related web-page compliance with individual HONcode criteria of conduct using varying length character n-gram vectors to represent healthcare web page docume...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
There remain significant difficulties selecting probable candidate drugs from existing databases. We describe an ontology-oriented approach to represent the nexus between genes, drugs, phenotypes, symptoms, and diseases from multiple information sour...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
This work develops an automated classifier of pathology reports which infers the topography and the morphology classes of a tumor using codes from the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O). Data from 94,980 patients of the A.C...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Classifying the defects occurring at the cervical spine provides the basis for surgical treatment planning and therapy recommendation. This process requires evidence from patient records. Further, the degree of a defect needs to be encoded in a stand...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
To translate the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) into French, we proposed a lexical approach using Natural Language Processing techniques. This method relies on the 56 biomedical terminologies and ontologies incl...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Assessment of vital signs is an essential part of surveillance of critically ill patients to detect condition changes and clinical deterioration. While most modern electronic medical records allow for vitals to be recorded in a structured format, the...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
In clinical NLP, one major barrier to adopting crowdsourcing for NLP annotation is the issue of confidentiality for protected health information (PHI) in clinical narratives. In this paper, we investigated the use of a frequency-based approach to ext...
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