The recognition of activities of daily living (ADL) in smart environments is a well-known and an important research area, which presents the real-time state of humans in pervasive computing. The process of recognizing human activities generally invol...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Apr 30, 2020
BACKGROUND: Semantic textual similarity (STS) is a fundamental natural language processing (NLP) task which can be widely used in many NLP applications such as Question Answer (QA), Information Retrieval (IR), etc. It is a typical regression problem,...
A massive number of biological entities, such as genes and mutations, are mentioned in the biomedical literature. The capturing of the semantic relatedness of biological entities is vital to many biological applications, such as protein-protein inter...
OBJECTIVE: To enhance the positive predictive value (PPV) of chest digital tomosynthesis (DTS) in the lung cancer detection with the analysis of radiomics features.
Recruiting eligible patients for clinical trials is crucial for reliably answering specific questions about medical interventions and evaluation. However, clinical trial recruitment is a bottleneck in clinical research and drug development. Our goal ...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 6, 2020
BACKGROUND: Healthcare consumers are increasingly turning to the online health Q&A communities to seek answers for their questions because current general search engines are unable to digest complex health-related questions. Q&A communities are platf...
Text representations ar one of the main inputs to various Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods. Given the fast developmental pace of new sentence embedding methods, we argue that there is a need for a unified methodology to assess these differen...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
Natural language processing (NLP) is useful for extracting information from clinical narratives, and both traditional machine learning methods and more-recent deep learning methods have been successful in various clinical NLP tasks. These methods oft...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
This paper describes a novel technique for annotating logical forms and answers for clinical questions by utilizing Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Such annotations are widely used in building the semantic parsing models (which aim...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
The identification of drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is important for patient safety; yet, compared to other pharmacovigilance work, a limited amount of research has been conducted in this space. Recent work has successfully applied a method of derivi...