Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Literature-based discovery (LBD) generates discoveries, or hypotheses, by combining what is already known in the literature. Potential discoveries have the form of relations between biomedical concepts; for example, a drug may be determined to treat ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The goal of our study is to establish methodological guidelines for the formulation of definitions in biomedical ontologies thatare not so common in the field of Library & Information Science.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Casemix grouping using procedures classifications has become an important use case for health care terminologies. There are so many different national procedures classifications used for Casemix grouping that it is not possible to agree on a worldwid...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Studies show a gap between the expressions commonly used by health consumers and health professionals. To bridge this gap, consumer health vocabularies are presented as a solution. The aim of this paper is to describe an on-going project to create a ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
To compare term occurrences in free-text radiology reports and RSNA reporting templates, we selected five templates from an RSNA reporting template library and their corresponding free-text reports as a test set, and employed the Wilcoxon signed-rank...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The objective of the SYNODOS collaborative project was to develop a generic IT solution, combining a medical terminology server, a semantic analyser and a knowledge base. The goal of the project was to generate meaningful epidemiological data for var...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Classifying the defects occurring at the cervical spine provides the basis for surgical treatment planning and therapy recommendation. This process requires evidence from patient records. Further, the degree of a defect needs to be encoded in a stand...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
To translate the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) into French, we proposed a lexical approach using Natural Language Processing techniques. This method relies on the 56 biomedical terminologies and ontologies incl...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
In clinical NLP, one major barrier to adopting crowdsourcing for NLP annotation is the issue of confidentiality for protected health information (PHI) in clinical narratives. In this paper, we investigated the use of a frequency-based approach to ext...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Dependence relations among disease and risk factors are a key ingredient in risk modeling and decision support models. Currently such information is either provided by experts (costly and time consuming) or extracted from data (if available). The pub...