2023
Representing and utilizing clinical textual data for real world studies: An OHDSI approach
Keloth V, Banda J, Gurley M, Heider P, Kennedy G, Liu H, Liu F, Miller T, Natarajan K, V Patterson O, Peng Y, Raja K, Reeves R, Rouhizadeh M, Shi J, Wang X, Wang Y, Wei W, Williams A, Zhang R, Belenkaya R, Reich C, Blacketer C, Ryan P, Hripcsak G, Elhadad N, Xu H. Representing and utilizing clinical textual data for real world studies: An OHDSI approach. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2023, 142: 104343. PMID: 36935011, PMCID: PMC10428170, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104343.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processingCommon data modelTextual dataNLP solutionObservational Health Data SciencesOMOP Common Data ModelSpecific use casesObservational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data ModelHealth Data SciencesRepresentation of informationUse casesElectronic health recordsReal-world evidence generationData scienceClinical textData modelClinical notesLanguage processingHealth recordsLoad dataClinical documentationCurrent applicationsInformationWorkflowEvidence generation
2021
A Discrete Joint Model for Entity and Relation Extraction from Clinical Notes.
Ji Z, Ghiasvand O, Wu S, Xu H. A Discrete Joint Model for Entity and Relation Extraction from Clinical Notes. AMIA Joint Summits On Translational Science Proceedings 2021, 2021: 315-324. PMID: 34457146, PMCID: PMC8378610.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRelation classificationPipeline architectureClinical natural language processingNatural language processingEntity recognitionBeam searchRelation extractionClinical notesLanguage processingClassification stepEntity pairsStructured perceptronFundamental taskClinical narrativesTraditional solutionsRecognition stepError propagationArchitectureJoint modelTaskSubtasksPerceptronClinical conceptsEntitiesClassification
2020
Relation Extraction from Clinical Narratives Using Pre-trained Language Models.
Wei Q, Ji Z, Si Y, Du J, Wang J, Tiryaki F, Wu S, Tao C, Roberts K, Xu H. Relation Extraction from Clinical Narratives Using Pre-trained Language Models. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2020, 2019: 1236-1245. PMID: 32308921, PMCID: PMC7153059.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPre-trained language modelsNatural language processingLanguage modelRE tasksNLP tasksClinical narrativesRecent deep learning methodsDeep learning methodsClinical NLP tasksRelation extraction taskTraditional word embeddingsTraditional machineExtraction taskArt performanceRelation extractionBERT modelLanguage processingLearning methodsWord embeddingsShared TaskPrevious stateBiomedical literatureDifferent implementationsTaskOpen domain
2019
A study of deep learning approaches for medication and adverse drug event extraction from clinical text
Wei Q, Ji Z, Li Z, Du J, Wang J, Xu J, Xiang Y, Tiryaki F, Wu S, Zhang Y, Tao C, Xu H. A study of deep learning approaches for medication and adverse drug event extraction from clinical text. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2019, 27: 13-21. PMID: 31135882, PMCID: PMC6913210, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz063.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDeep learning-based approachDeep learning approachLearning-based approachTraditional machineLearning approachNational NLP Clinical ChallengesAdverse drug event extractionOutperform traditional machineDifferent ensemble approachesConditional Random FieldsSequence labeling approachMIMIC-III databaseEvent extractionMedical domainEntity recognitionClassification componentF1 scoreClinical textRelation extractionClinical documentsVector machineEnd evaluationEnsemble approachClinical corpusMachine
2015
Identifying risk factors for heart disease over time: Overview of 2014 i2b2/UTHealth shared task Track 2
Stubbs A, Kotfila C, Xu H, Uzuner Ö. Identifying risk factors for heart disease over time: Overview of 2014 i2b2/UTHealth shared task Track 2. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2015, 58: s67-s77. PMID: 26210362, PMCID: PMC4978189, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.07.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAgedBostonCohort StudiesComorbidityComputer SecurityConfidentialityCoronary Artery DiseaseData MiningDiabetes ComplicationsElectronic Health RecordsFemaleHumansIncidenceLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedNarrationNatural Language ProcessingPattern Recognition, AutomatedRisk AssessmentVocabulary, ControlledConceptsCoronary artery diseaseRisk factorsLongitudinal medical recordsMedical recordsMedical risk factorsArtery diseaseDiabetic patientsSmoking statusHeart diseaseFamily historyI2b2/UTHealth natural language processingDiseaseI2b2/UTHealthProgressionUTHealthHypertensionHyperlipidemiaFactorsObesityDiabetesPatients