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The requiring of large amounts of annotated training data has become a common constraint on various deep learning systems. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised scene text detection method (WeText) that trains robust and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Shangxuan Tian , Shijian Lu , Chongshou Li

Biomedical researchers use ontologies to annotate their data with ontology terms, enabling better data integration and interoperability. However, the number, variety and complexity of current biomedical ontologies make it cumbersome for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Marcos Martinez-Romero , Clement Jonquet , Martin J. O'Connor , John Graybeal , Alejandro Pazos , Mark A. Musen

Automatic subphenotyping from electronic health records (EHRs)provides numerous opportunities to understand diseases with unique subgroups and enhance personalized medicine for patients. However, existing machine learning algorithms either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ruohan Wang , Zilong Wang , Ziyang Song , David Buckeridge , Yue Li

It is generally accepted that one of the critical parts of current vision algorithms based on deep learning and convolutional neural networks is the annotation of a sufficient number of images to achieve competitive performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Kai Yao , Alberto Ortiz , Francisco Bonnin-Pascual

Automatic extraction of clinical concepts is an essential step for turning the unstructured data within a clinical note into structured and actionable information. In this work, we propose a clinical concept extraction model for automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Henghui Zhu , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Amir Tahmasebi

The application of machine learning on healthcare data is often hindered by the lack of standardized and semantically explicit representation, leading to limited interoperability and reproducibility across datasets and experiments. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Alberto Marfoglia , Jong Ho Jhee , Adrien Coulet

Ontology learning is a critical task in industry, dealing with identifying and extracting concepts captured in text data such that these concepts can be used in different tasks, e.g. information retrieval. Ontology learning is non-trivial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Yiming Xu , Dnyanesh Rajpathak , Ian Gibbs , Diego Klabjan

Motivation: Ontologies are widely used in biology for data annotation, integration, and analysis. In addition to formally structured axioms, ontologies contain meta-data in the form of annotation axioms which provide valuable pieces of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Fatima Zohra Smaili , Xin Gao , Robert Hoehndorf

Event Detection (ED) aims to identify event trigger words from a given text and classify it into an event type. Most of current methods to ED rely heavily on training instances, and almost ignore the correlation of event types. Hence, they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Luoqiu Li , Hui Chen , Huaixiao Tou , Mosha Chen , Fei Huang , Huajun Chen

The work discusses the use of machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection in medical image analysis and how the performance of these algorithms depends on the number of annotators and the quality of labels. To address the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Hieu H. Pham , Khiem H. Le , Tuan V. Tran , Ha Q. Nguyen

Rare diseases (RDs) are collectively common and affect 300 million people worldwide. Accurate phenotyping is critical for informing diagnosis and treatment, but RD phenotypes are often embedded in unstructured text and time-consuming to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Cathy Shyr , Yan Hu , Paul A. Harris , Hua Xu

This article reviews recent advances in applying natural language processing (NLP) to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for computational phenotyping. NLP-based computational phenotyping has numerous applications including diagnosis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Zexian Zeng , Yu Deng , Xiaoyu Li , Tristan Naumann , Yuan Luo

Computational phenotyping is essential for biomedical research but often requires significant time and resources, especially since traditional methods typically involve extensive manual data review. While machine learning and natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sarah Pungitore , Shashank Yadav , Vignesh Subbian

Computational phenotyping is a central informatics activity with resulting cohorts supporting a wide variety of applications. However, it is time-intensive because of manual data review and limited automation. Since LLMs have demonstrated…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-18 Sarah Pungitore , Shashank Yadav , Molly Douglas , Jarrod Mosier , Vignesh Subbian

It has been recently shown that sparse, nonnegative tensor factorization of multi-modal electronic health record data is a promising approach to high-throughput computational phenotyping. However, such approaches typically do not leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Jette Henderson , Bradley A. Malin , Joyce C. Ho , Joydeep Ghosh

Detecting anatomical landmarks in medical imaging is essential for diagnosis and intervention guidance. However, object detection models rely on costly bounding box annotations, limiting scalability. Weakly Semi-Supervised Object Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Adrien Meyer , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

In this paper, we describe an approach to populate an existing ontology with instance information present in the natural language text provided as input. An ontology is defined as an explicit conceptualization of a shared domain. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Raghu Anantharangachar , Srinivasan Ramani , S Rajagopalan

Clinical phenotyping enables the automatic extraction of clinical conditions from patient records, which can be beneficial to doctors and clinics worldwide. However, current state-of-the-art models are mostly applicable to clinical notes…

Unstructured information comprises a valuable source of data in clinical records. For text mining in clinical records, concept extraction is the first step in finding assertions and relationships. This study presents a system developed for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-12-09 Ning Kang , Rogier Barendse , Zubair Afzal , Bharat Singh , Martijn J. Schuemie , Erik M. van Mulligen , Jan A. Kors

End users of recent biomedical information systems are often unaware of the storage structure and access mechanisms of the underlying data sources and can require simplified mechanisms for writing domain specific complex queries. This…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-12-16 Kamran Munir , Mohammed Odeh , Richard McClatchey