BACKGROUND: The use of linked data in the Semantic Web is a promising approach to add value to nutrition research. An ontology, which defines the logical relationships between well-defined taxonomic terms, enables linking and harmonizing research out...
BACKGROUND: Disease named entity recognition (NER) plays an important role in biomedical research. There are a significant number of challenging issues to be addressed; among these, the identification of rare diseases and complex disease names and th...
INTRODUCTION: The International Classification of Primary Care, Second version (ICPC-2) aligned with the 10th Revision of the International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) is a standard for primary care epidemiology compendium. ICPC-2 has been als...
BACKGROUND: miRBase is the primary repository for published miRNA sequence and annotation data, and serves as the "go-to" place for miRNA research. However, the definition and annotation of miRNAs have been changed significantly across different vers...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 12, 2018
BACKGROUND: There has been an increasing interest in learning low-dimensional vector representations of medical concepts from Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Vector representations of medical concepts facilitate exploratory analysis and predictive ...
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
Automating the extraction of behavioral criteria indicative of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in electronic health records (EHRs) can contribute significantly to the effort to monitor the condition. Word embedding algorithms such as Word2Vec can enco...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Digital rectal examination (DRE) is considered a quality metric for prostate cancer care. However, much of the DRE related rich information is documented as free-text in clinical narratives. Therefore, we aimed to develop a natural language processin...
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