IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Mar 16, 2016
The identification of duplicated and plagiarized passages of text has become an increasingly active area of research. In this paper, we investigate methods for plagiarism detection that aim to identify potential sources of plagiarism from MEDLINE, pa...
UNLABELLED: Most patient care questions raised by clinicians can be answered by online clinical knowledge resources. However, important barriers still challenge the use of these resources at the point of care.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 13, 2015
OBJECTIVE: To identify patients in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) study cohort who have fallen by applying supervised machine learning methods to radiology reports of the cohort.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Nov 5, 2015
To incorporate ontological concepts in natural language processing (NLP) it is often necessary to combine simple concepts into complex concepts (post-coordination). This is especially true in consumer language, where a more limited vocabulary forces ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Nov 5, 2015
Our research investigates methods for creating effective concept extractors for specialty clinical notes. First, we present three new "specialty area" datasets consisting of Cardiology, Neurology, and Orthopedics clinical notes manually annotated wit...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Nov 5, 2015
Biomedical ontologies play a vital role in healthcare information management, data integration, and decision support. Ontology quality assurance (OQA) is an indispensable part of the ontology engineering cycle. Most existing OQA methods are based on ...
The second track of the 2014 i2b2 challenge asked participants to automatically identify risk factors for heart disease among diabetic patients using natural language processing techniques for clinical notes. This paper describes a rule-based system ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 31, 2015
BACKGROUND: Variations of clinical terms are very commonly encountered in clinical texts. Normalization methods that use similarity measures or hand-coded approximation rules for matching clinical terms to standard terminologies have limited accuracy...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 29, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Analysis of narrative (text) data from electronic health records (EHRs) can improve population-scale phenotyping for clinical and genetic research. Currently, selection of text features for phenotyping algorithms is slow and laborious, req...