Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 29, 2022
Contextualized word embeddings proved to be highly successful quantitative representations of words that allow to efficiently solve various tasks such as clinical entity normalization in unstructured texts. In this paper, we investigate how the Sauss...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
Most clinical texts including breast cancer patient summaries (BCPSs) are elaborated as narrative documents difficult to process by decision support systems. Annotators have been developed to extract the relevant content of such documents, e.g., Meta...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 6, 2022
BACKGROUND: Terminology integration at the scale of the UMLS Metathesaurus (i.e., over 200 source vocabularies) remains challenging despite recent advances in ontology alignment techniques based on neural networks.
BACKGROUND: The development of electronic health records has provided a large volume of unstructured biomedical information. Extracting patient characteristics from these data has become a major challenge, especially in languages other than English.
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
In health sciences, high-quality text embeddings may augment qualitative data analysis of large amounts of text by enabling, e.g., searching and clustering of health information. This study aimed to evaluate three different sentence-level embedding m...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
The wide adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in hospitals provides unique opportunities for high throughput phenotyping of patients. The phenotype extraction from narrative reports can be performed by using either dictionary-based or data-dri...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 16, 2022
Among medical applications of natural language processing (NLP), word sense disambiguation (WSD) estimates alternative meanings from text around homonyms. Recently developed NLP methods include word vectors that combine easy computability with nuance...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Feb 1, 2022
Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. arrived at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in 1984 and quickly launched the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) research and development project to help computer understand biomedical meaning and to enable retrieval...