2013
Recognizing clinical entities in hospital discharge summaries using Structural Support Vector Machines with word representation features
Tang B, Cao H, Wu Y, Jiang M, Xu H. Recognizing clinical entities in hospital discharge summaries using Structural Support Vector Machines with word representation features. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2013, 13: s1. PMID: 23566040, PMCID: PMC3618243, DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-s1-s1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStructural support vector machineWord representation featuresClinical NER tasksConditional Random FieldsSupport vector machinePerformance of MLClinical NER systemMachine learningRepresentation featuresNER systemNER taskVector machineEntity recognitionNatural language processing researchSequential labeling algorithmClinical entity recognitionLarge margin theoryClinical text processingLanguage processing researchPerformance of CRFsHighest F-measureClinical NLP researchI2b2 NLP challengeSame feature setsBetter performance
2012
A study of transportability of an existing smoking status detection module across institutions.
Liu M, Shah A, Jiang M, Peterson N, Dai Q, Aldrich M, Chen Q, Bowton E, Liu H, Denny J, Xu H. A study of transportability of an existing smoking status detection module across institutions. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2012, 2012: 577-86. PMID: 23304330, PMCID: PMC3540509.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDetection moduleNatural language processing systemsKnowledge Extraction SystemEMR dataRule-based classifierClinical Text AnalysisHighest F-measureLanguage processing systemElectronic medical recordsF-measureLevels of classificationProcessing systemSpecific tasksText analysisClassifierDesirable performanceModuleModest effortExtraction systemCTAKESSmoking moduleMachineSystemTaskClassificationClinical entity recognition using structural support vector machines with rich features
Tang B, Cao H, Wu Y, Jiang M, Xu H. Clinical entity recognition using structural support vector machines with rich features. 2012, 13-20. DOI: 10.1145/2390068.2390073.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchStructural support vector machineClinical entity recognitionSupport vector machineConditional Random FieldsNatural language processingEntity recognitionVector machineRich featuresNLP challengeSequential labeling algorithmLarge margin theoryUnsupervised word representationsClinical text processingConcept extraction taskLess training timeHighest F-measureTest setI2b2 NLP challengeExtraction taskTypical machineNER taskClinical textTraining timeF-measureLanguage processingExtracting epidemiologic exposure and outcome terms from literature using machine learning approaches.
Lu Y, Xu H, Peterson N, Dai Q, Jiang M, Denny J, Liu M. Extracting epidemiologic exposure and outcome terms from literature using machine learning approaches. International Journal Of Data Mining And Bioinformatics 2012, 6: 447-59. PMID: 23155773, DOI: 10.1504/ijdmb.2012.049284.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2011
Detecting abbreviations in discharge summaries using machine learning methods.
Wu Y, Rosenbloom S, Denny J, Miller R, Mani S, Giuse D, Xu H. Detecting abbreviations in discharge summaries using machine learning methods. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2011, 2011: 1541-9. PMID: 22195219, PMCID: PMC3243185.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processingMachine learning methodsHighest F-measureF-measureClinical natural language processingLexical resourcesClinical abbreviationsTraining setPre-defined featuresRandom forest classifierDomain expertsML algorithmsML classifiersLanguage processingVoting schemeLearning methodsDischarge summariesForest classifierTest setClassifierCorpus-based methodSetResourcesAlgorithmAbbreviations