Studies in health technology and informatics
37203509
Written text has been the preferred medium for storing health data ever since Hippocrates, and the medical narrative is what enables a humanized clinical relationship. Can't we admit natural language as a user-accepted technology that has stood again...
Studies in health technology and informatics
37203507
Word vector representations, known as embeddings, are commonly used for natural language processing. Particularly, contextualized representations have been very successful recently. In this work, we analyze the impact of contextualized and non-contex...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
37161566
BACKGROUND: Biomedical ontologies are representations of biomedical knowledge that provide terms with precisely defined meanings. They play a vital role in facilitating biomedical research in a cross-disciplinary manner. Quality issues of biomedical ...
Standardised medical terminologies are used to ensure accurate and consistent communication of information and to facilitate data exchange. Currently, many terminologies are only available in English, which hinders international research and automate...
OBJECTIVE: The use of standardized structured reports (SSR) and suitable terminologies like SNOMED-CT can enhance data retrieval and analysis, fostering large-scale studies and collaboration. However, the still large prevalence of narrative reports i...
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
38811438
PURPOSE: Accessible patient information sources are vital in educating patients about the benefits and risks of spinal surgery, which is crucial for obtaining informed consent. We aim to assess the effectiveness of a natural language processing (NLP)...
Journal of imaging informatics in medicine
38858261
Previously, the lack of a standard body part ontology has been identified as a critical deficiency needed to enable enterprise imaging. This whitepaper aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of anatomical ontologies with the aim of facilitating e...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
39633397
BACKGROUND: The digitisation of healthcare records has generated vast amounts of unstructured data, presenting opportunities for improvements in disease diagnosis when clinical coding falls short, such as in the recording of patient symptoms. This st...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the utility and challenges of using natural language processing (NLP) in electronic health records (EHRs) to ascertain health-related social needs (HRSNs) among older adults.
International journal of medical informatics
39848078
BACKGROUND: Accurate classification of medical records is crucial for clinical documentation, particularly when using the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) coding system. The use of machine learning algorithms and...