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...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
Computational representations of the semantic knowledge embedded within clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) may be a significant aid in creating computer interpretable guidelines (CIGs). Formalizing plain text CPGs into CIGs manually is a laborious a...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
Learning how to automatically align biomedical ontologies has been a long-standing goal, given their ever-growing content and the many applications that rely on them. Because the knowledge graphs underlying biomedical ontologies enable neural learnin...
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Feb 13, 2020
Semantic understanding of 3D environments is critical for both the unmanned system and the human involved virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) immersive experience. Spatially-sparse convolution, taking advantage of the intrinsic sparsity of 3D point clo...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Feb 10, 2020
Breast cancer accounts for the second-largest number of deaths in women around the world, and more than 8% of women will suffer from the disease in their lifetime. Mortality due to breast cancer can be reduced by its early and precise diagnosis. Many...
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