The comprehensive modeling and hierarchical positioning of a new concept in an ontology heavily relies on its set of proper subsumption relationships (IS-As) to other concepts. Identifying a concept's IS-A relationships is a laborious task requiring ...
SNOMED CT is a comprehensive and evolving clinical reference terminology that has been widely adopted as a common vocabulary to promote interoperability between Electronic Health Records. Owing to its importance in healthcare, quality assurance becom...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Mar 4, 2020
BACKGROUND: The use of clinical data in electronic health records for machine-learning or data analytics depends on the conversion of free text into machine-readable codes. We have examined the feasibility of capturing the neurological examination as...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
With advances in Machine Learning (ML), neural network-based methods, such as Convolutional/Recurrent Neural Networks, have been proposed to assist terminology curators in the development and maintenance of terminologies. Bidirectional Encoder Repres...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
As a step toward learning to automatically insert new concepts into a large biomedical ontology, we are studying the easier problem of automatically verifying that an IS-A link should exist between a new child concept and an existing parent concept. ...
International journal of medical informatics
Dec 31, 2018
BACKGROUND: Semantic interoperability of eHealth services within and across countries has been the main topic in several research projects. It is a key consideration for the European Commission to overcome the complexity of making different health in...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Rare diseases, although individually rare, collectively affect one in ten Americans. Because of their rarity, patients with rare diseases are typically left misdiagnosed or undiagnosed, which leads to a prolonged medical journey. The diagnosis pathwa...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
.Summary-level clinical text is an important part of the overall clinical record as it provides a condensed and efficient view into the issues pertinent to the patient, or their "problem list." These problem lists contain a wealth of information pert...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Computer-assisted (diagnostic) coding (CAC) aims to improve the operational productivity and accuracy of clinical coders. The level of accuracy, especially for a wide range of complex and less prevalent clinical cases, remains an open research proble...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Many major medical ontologies go through a regular (bi-annual, monthly, etc.) release cycle. A new release will contain corrections to the previous release, as well as genuinely new concepts that are the result of either user requests or new developm...
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