Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Detecting adverse drug events (ADEs) and medications related information in clinical notes is important for both hospital medical care and medical research. We describe our clinical natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Electronic health records linked with biorepositories are a powerful platform for translational studies. A major bottleneck exists in the ability to phenotype patients accurately and efficiently. The objective of this study was to develop ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing (NLP) engines such as the clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System are a solution for processing notes for research, but optimizing their performance for a clinical data warehouse remains a challen...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
May 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: In biomedicine, there is a wealth of information hidden in unstructured narratives such as research articles and clinical reports. To exploit these data properly, a word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithm prevents downstream difficulties...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2019
The increasing amount of scientific literature in biological and biomedical science research has created a challenge in continuous and reliable curation of the latest knowledge discovered, and automatic biomedical text-mining has been one of the answ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this work is to map Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts to DBpedia resources using widely accepted ontology relations from the Simple Knowledge Organization System (skos:exactMatch, skos:closeMatch) and from the Res...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
MetaMap is a widely used named entity recognition tool that identifies concepts from the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus in text. This study presents MetaMap Lite, an implementation of some of the basic MetaMap functions in Java. On sev...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Concept mapping is important in natural language processing (NLP) for bioinformatics. The UMLS Metathesaurus provides a rich synonym thesaurus and is a popular resource for concept mapping. Query expansion using synonyms for subterm substitutions is ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Laboratory test names are used as basic information to diagnose diseases. However, this kind of medical information is usually written in a natural language. To find this information, lexicon based methods have been good solutions but they cannot fin...