Studies in health technology and informatics
May 18, 2023
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
May 18, 2023
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 16, 2023
OBJECTIVE: SNOMED CT is the largest clinical terminology worldwide. Quality assurance of SNOMED CT is of utmost importance to ensure that it provides accurate domain knowledge to various SNOMED CT-based applications. In this work, we introduce a deep...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Nov 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: One important concept in informatics is data which meets the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIR). Standards, such as terminologies (findability), assist with important tasks like interoperabili...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 27, 2021
Data integration is an increasing need in medical informatics projects like the EU Precise4Q project, in which multidisciplinary semantically and syntactically heterogeneous data across several institutions needs to be integrated. Besides, data shari...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) integrates various source terminologies to support interoperability between biomedical information systems. In this article, we introduce a novel transformation-based auditing method that leverage...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Concept normalization, the task of linking phrases in text to concepts in an ontology, is useful for many downstream tasks including relation extraction, information retrieval, etc. We present a generate-and-rank concept normalization syst...
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To analyze techniques for machine translation of electronic health records (EHRs) between long distance languages, using Basque and Spanish as a reference. We studied distinct configurations of neural machine translation systems and used d...