BACKGROUND: Opioid overdose is a global public health emergency, with the United States experiencing high rates of morbidity and mortality due to prescription and illicit opioid use. Traditional public health monitoring systems often fail to provide ...
Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a crucial role in extracting important information such as treatment methods, symptoms, and herbal prescriptions from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) electronic medical records. However, existing NER methods of...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Oct 31, 2025
BACKGROUND: Labor- and cost-intensive manual chart review of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) remains a major bottleneck in retrospective studies, particularly when rare-disease cohorts require high specificity. Automated Natural Language Processing ...
Overrepresentation analysis is used to identify biological enrichment in a list of genes. Here, we introduce GeneTEA, a model that ingests free-text gene descriptions and incorporates natural language processing methods to learn a sparse gene-by-term...
Rare disease detection and classification is one of the most significant challenges in the application of Natural Language Processing techniques to the analysis and extraction of information from biomedical texts. In this paper, we present a novel re...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Oct 29, 2025
BACKGROUND: In clinical research, there is a strong drive to leverage big data from population cohort studies and routine electronic healthcare records to design new interventions, improve health outcomes and increase the efficiency of healthcare del...
BACKGROUND: Sentence-transformers is a library that provides easy methods for generating embeddings for sentences, paragraphs, and images. Sentiment analysis, retrieval, and clustering are among the applications made possible by the embedding of text...
Given South Korea's recent 16.6% reduction in research and development (R&D) budgets for 2023, there is an urgent need for more efficient and strategic R&D policy management. Previous studies evaluating R&D outputs have primarily relied on quantitati...
BACKGROUND: Medical ethics provides a moral framework for the practice of clinical medicine. Four principles, that is, beneficence, nonmaleficence, patient autonomy, and justice, form the cornerstones of medical ethics as it is practiced today. Of th...
BACKGROUND: Automatic analysis of free-text patient comments enables the efficient processing of large feedback volumes, reducing reliance on manual review. A 2021 review examined natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis (SA) in patie...
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