OBJECTIVE: Intra-axiom redundancies are elements of concept definitions that are redundant as they are entailed by other elements of the concept definition. While such redundancies are harmless from a logical point of view, they make concept definiti...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 21, 2014
OBJECTIVE: The ShARe/CLEF eHealth 2013 Evaluation Lab Task 1 was organized to evaluate the state of the art on the clinical text in (i) disorder mention identification/recognition based on Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) definition (Task 1a) a...
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The objectives are: 1) to introduce a simple and efficient method for extracting region of interest (ROI) values from a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) viewer using optical character recognition (OCR) softw...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
May 23, 2014
Modern medical information retrieval systems are paramount to manage the insurmountable quantities of clinical data. These systems empower health care experts in the diagnosis of patients and play an important role in the clinical decision process. H...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Apr 24, 2014
Retrieval systems can supply similar cases with a proven diagnosis to a new example case under observation to help clinicians during their work. The ImageCLEFmed evaluation campaign proposes a framework where research groups can compare case-based re...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Mar 27, 2014
Medical image retrieval and classification have been extremely active research topics over the past 15 years. Within the ImageCLEF benchmark in medical image retrieval and classification, a standard test bed was created that allows researchers to com...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Sep 3, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Manual ICD-10 coding of German clinical texts is time-consuming and error-prone. This project aims to develop a semi-automated pipeline for efficient coding of unstructured medical documentation.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) populations are often aggregated into broad racial categories, obscuring potential disparities. This study leverages an expanded race/ethnicity lexicon and natural language processing (NLP) to identify docu...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Balancing operational feasibility with the performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems is a significant challenge. This study presents a hybrid strategy to integrate manually curated rules, small language model (SLM), and large language ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Diagnosis codes documented in electronic health records (EHR) are often relied upon to clinically phenotype patients for biomedical research. However, these diagnoses can be incomplete and inaccurate, leading to false negatives when search...
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