Studies in health technology and informatics
Oct 27, 2021
According to the "Istituto Superiore di Sanita'" (ISS), hospital infections are the most frequent and serious complication of health care. This constitutes a real health emergency which requires incisive and joint action at all levels of the local an...
The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO, https://hpo.jax.org) was launched in 2008 to provide a comprehensive logical standard to describe and computationally analyze phenotypic abnormalities found in human disease. The HPO is now a worldwide standard for ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Developing algorithms to extract phenotypes from electronic health records (EHRs) can be challenging and time-consuming. We developed PheMap, a high-throughput phenotyping approach that leverages multiple independent, online resources to s...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to explore the use of deep learning techniques to measure the semantic relatedness between Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the need for additional coverage of dietary supplements (DS) in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by investigating (1) the overlap between the integrated DIetary Supplements Knowledge base (iDISK) DS ingredient...
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
Jul 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Coordination ellipsis is a linguistic phenomenon abound in medical text and is challenging for concept normalization because of difficulty in recognizing elliptical expressions referencing 2 or more entities accurately. To resolve this bot...
Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Feb 1, 2020
INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organization has estimated that 12 million deaths occur worldwide, every year due to Heart diseases. Half the deaths in the developed countries are due to cardiovascular diseases. The early prognosis of cardiovascular d...
METHODICAL ISSUE: Machine learning (ML) algorithms have an increasingly relevant role in radiology tackling tasks such as the automatic detection and segmentation of diagnosis-relevant markers, the quantification of progression and response, and thei...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: An adverse drug event (ADE) refers to an injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug including harm caused by drugs or from the usage of drugs. Extracting ADEs from clinical records can help physicians associate adverse ev...
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