Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The 2019 National Natural language processing (NLP) Clinical Challenges (n2c2)/Open Health NLP (OHNLP) shared task track 3, focused on medical concept normalization (MCN) in clinical records. This track aimed to assess the state of the art...
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
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...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to evaluate the feasibility of using Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic features for automated identification of reports about patient safety incidents by type and severity.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Recent studies in the biomedical domain suggest that learning statistical word representations (static or contextualized word embeddings) on large corpora of specialized data improve the results on downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
Parallel sentences provide semantically similar information which can vary on a given dimension, such as language or register. Parallel sentences with register variation (like expert and non-expert documents) can be exploited for the automatic text s...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 16, 2020
The aim of this study was to develop a simple method to map the French International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision (ICD-10) with the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: To build a knowledge base of dietary supplement (DS) information, called the integrated DIetary Supplement Knowledge base (iDISK), which integrates and standardizes DS-related information from 4 existing resources.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Consumers increasingly turn to the internet in search of health-related information; and they want their questions answered with short and precise passages, rather than needing to analyze lists of relevant documents returned by search engi...