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The use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has increased dramatically in the past 15 years, as, it is considered an important source of managing data od patients. The EHRs are primary sources of disease diagnosis and demographic data of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bushra F. Alsaqer , Alaa F. Alsaqer , Amna Asif

Since radiology reports needed for clinical practice and research are written and stored in free-text narrations, extraction of relative information for further analysis is difficult. In these circumstances, natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Seyed Ali Reza Moezzi , Abdolrahman Ghaedi , Mojdeh Rahmanian , Seyedeh Zahra Mousavi , Ashkan Sami

The extraction of phenotype information which is naturally contained in electronic health records (EHRs) has been found to be useful in various clinical informatics applications such as disease diagnosis. However, due to imprecise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jingqing Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Kai Sun , Xian Yang , Chengliang Dai , Yike Guo

The extraction of critical patient information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) poses significant challenges due to the complexity and unstructured nature of the data. Traditional machine learning approaches often fail to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhimeng Luo , Abhibha Gupta , Adam Frisch , Daqing He

The combined growth of available data and their unstructured nature has received increased interest in natural language processing (NLP) techniques to make value of these data assets since this format is not suitable for statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Vitor Alcantara Batista , Alexandre Gonçalves Evsukoff

Accurate prediction of clinical outcomes using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is critical for early intervention, efficient resource allocation, and improved patient care. EHRs contain multimodal data, including both structured data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Rituparna Datta , Jiaming Cui , Zihan Guan , Vishal G. Reddy , Joshua C. Eby , Gregory Madden , Rupesh Silwal , Anil Vullikanti

Clinical language models are important for many applications in healthcare, but their development depends on access to extensive clinical text for pretraining. However, obtaining clinical notes from electronic health records (EHRs) at scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jinghui Liu , Anthony Nguyen

This study proposes a medical entity extraction method based on Transformer to enhance the information extraction capability of medical literature. Considering the professionalism and complexity of medical texts, we compare the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xiaokai Wang , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Jacky He , Hongye Zheng , Hanlu Zhang

Biomedical documents such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a large amount of information in an unstructured format. The data in EHRs is a hugely valuable resource documenting clinical narratives and decisions, but whilst the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zeljko Kraljevic , Daniel Bean , Aurelie Mascio , Lukasz Roguski , Amos Folarin , Angus Roberts , Rebecca Bendayan , Richard Dobson

Clinical notes in electronic health records contain highly heterogeneous writing styles, including non-standard terminology or abbreviations. Using these notes in predictive modeling has traditionally required preprocessing (e.g. taking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Jonas Kemp , Alvin Rajkomar , Andrew M. Dai

Electronic health records (EHR) contain large volumes of unstructured text, requiring the application of Information Extraction (IE) technologies to enable clinical analysis. We present the open-source Medical Concept Annotation Toolkit…

Although named entity recognition (NER) helps us to extract domain-specific entities from text (e.g., artists in the music domain), it is costly to create a large amount of training data or a structured knowledge base to perform accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kosuke Nishida , Naoki Yoshinaga , Kyosuke Nishida

Here we present the training and evaluation of NanoNER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for Nanobiology. NER consists in the identification of specific entities in spans of unstructured texts and is often a primary task in Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Martin Lentschat , Cyril Labbé , Ran Cheng

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become the primary form of medical data-keeping across the United States. Federal law restricts the sharing of any EHR data that contains protected health information (PHI). De-identification, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Abdullah Ahmed , Adeel Abbasi , Carsten Eickhoff

Clinicians spend a significant amount of time inputting free-form textual notes into Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. Much of this documentation work is seen as a burden, reducing time spent with patients and contributing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Peter J. Liu

The growth rate in the amount of biomedical documents is staggering. Unlocking information trapped in these documents can enable researchers and practitioners to operate confidently in the information world. Biomedical NER, the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xiang Dai

For languages with no annotated resources, transferring knowledge from rich-resource languages is an effective solution for named entity recognition (NER). While all existing methods directly transfer from source-learned model to a target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qianhui Wu , Zijia Lin , Guoxin Wang , Hui Chen , Börje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin-Yew Lin

The overwhelming amount of biomedical scientific texts calls for the development of effective language models able to tackle a wide range of biomedical natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The most recent dominant approaches are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Giacomo Miolo , Giulio Mantoan , Carlotta Orsenigo

Background Predicting mortality and resource utilization from electronic health records (EHRs) is challenging yet crucial for optimizing patient outcomes and managing costs in intensive care unit (ICU). Existing approaches predominantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yucheng Ruan , Xiang Lan , Daniel J. Tan , Hairil Rizal Abdullah , Mengling Feng

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental part of extracting information from documents in biomedical applications. A notable advantage of NER is its consistency in extracting biomedical entities in a document context. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang