Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the medical domain often presents significant challenges due to the complexity and specificity of medical terminology, especially in lower-resource settings where annotated data is scarce. This study explores the per...
BACKGROUND: Symptoms are a core concept of nursing interest. Large-scale secondary data reuse of notes in electronic health records (EHRs) has the potential to increase the quantity and quality of symptom research. However, the symptom language used ...
Reusing massive collections of publicly available biomedical data can significantly impact knowledge discovery. However, these public samples and studies are typically described using unstructured plain text, hindering the findability and further reu...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Sep 24, 2024
While Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) clinical terminology server enables quick and easy search and retrieval of coded medical data, it still has some drawbacks. When searching, any typographical errors, variations in word forms, or...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Sep 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: We aim to develop a novel method for rare disease concept normalization by fine-tuning Llama 2, an open-source large language model (LLM), using a domain-specific corpus sourced from the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO).
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Sep 1, 2024
OBJECTIVES: This article aims to enhance the performance of larger language models (LLMs) on the few-shot biomedical named entity recognition (NER) task by developing a simple and effective method called Retrieving and Chain-of-Thought (RT) framework...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Annotated language resources derived from clinical routine documentation form an intriguing asset for secondary use case scenarios. In this investigation, we report on how such a resource can be leveraged to identify additional term candidates for a ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Named Entity Recognition (NER) models based on Transformers have gained prominence for their impressive performance in various languages and domains. This work delves into the often-overlooked aspect of entity-level metrics and exposes significant di...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Ontology is essential for achieving health information and information technology application interoperability in the biomedical fields and beyond. Traditionally, ontology construction is carried out manually by human domain experts (HDE). Here, we e...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
This article presents our experience in development an ontological model can be used in clinical decision support systems (CDSS) creating. We have used the largest international biomedical terminological metathesaurus the Unified Medical Language Sys...
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