BACKGROUND: With the substantial growth in the biomedical research literature, a larger number of claims are published daily, some of which seemingly disagree with or contradict prior claims on the same topics. Resolving such contradictions is critic...
International journal of biological sciences
Aug 6, 2019
About 29.8 million people worldwide had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in 2015, and the number is projected to triple by 2050. In 2018, AD was the fifth leading cause of death in Americans with 65 years of age or older, but the progress...
The growing body of knowledge in biomedicine is too vast for human consumption. Hence there is a need for automated systems able to navigate and distill the emerging wealth of information. One fundamental task to that end is relation extraction, wher...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 30, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The extraction of interactions between chemicals and proteins from biomedical literature is important for many biomedical tasks such as drug discovery and precision medicine. In the existing systems, the methods achieving co...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jan 31, 2019
BACKGROUND: Disease comorbidity is very common and has significant impact on disease treatment. Revealing the associations among diseases may help to understand the mechanisms of diseases, improve the prevention and treatment of diseases, and support...
BACKGROUND: VerbNet, an extensive computational verb lexicon for English, has proved useful for supporting a wide range of Natural Language Processing tasks requiring information about the behaviour and meaning of verbs. Biomedical text processing an...
BACKGROUND: Biomedical literature is expanding rapidly, and tools that help locate information of interest are needed. To this end, a multitude of different approaches for classifying sentences in biomedical publications according to their coarse sem...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 7, 2018
BACKGROUND: The application of artificial intelligence techniques for processing electronic health records data plays increasingly significant role in advancing clinical decision support. This study conducts a quantitative comparison on the research ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Disease-symptom relation is an important biomedical relation that can be used for clinical decision support including building medical diagnostic systems. Here we present a study on mining disease-symptom relation from massive biomedical literature a...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Medication doses, one of the determining factors in medication safety and effectiveness, are present in the literature, but only in free-text form. We set out to determine if the systems developed for extracting drug prescription information from cli...