2024
Development of Clinical NLP Systems
Xu H, Demner Fushman D. Development of Clinical NLP Systems. Cognitive Informatics In Biomedicine And Healthcare 2024, 301-324. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55865-8_11.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnsemble pretrained language models to extract biomedical knowledge from literature
Li Z, Wei Q, Huang L, Li J, Hu Y, Chuang Y, He J, Das A, Keloth V, Yang Y, Diala C, Roberts K, Tao C, Jiang X, Zheng W, Xu H. Ensemble pretrained language models to extract biomedical knowledge from literature. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2024, 31: 1904-1911. PMID: 38520725, PMCID: PMC11339500, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae061.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNatural language processingNatural language processing systemsLanguage modelExpansion of biomedical literatureZero-shot settingManually annotated corpusKnowledge graph developmentTask-specific modelsDomain-specific modelsZero-ShotEntity recognitionBillion parametersEnsemble learningLocation informationKnowledge basesBiomedical entitiesLanguage processingFree textGraph developmentBiomedical conceptsAutomated techniqueBiomedical literatureDetection methodPredictive performanceBiomedical knowledge
2017
Entity recognition from clinical texts via recurrent neural network
Liu Z, Yang M, Wang X, Chen Q, Tang B, Wang Z, Xu H. Entity recognition from clinical texts via recurrent neural network. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2017, 17: 67. PMID: 28699566, PMCID: PMC5506598, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0468-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRecurrent neural networkNatural language processingEntity recognitionClinical textTraditional machineNeural networkClinical natural language processingMedical concept extractionHand-crafted featuresClinical entity recognitionDeep learning methodsClinical event detectionConditional Random FieldsSupport vector machineI2b2 NLP challengePerformance of LSTMTypes of entitiesClinical domainsContext informationFeature engineeringConcept extractionDe-identificationEvent detectionKnowledge basesLSTM layers
2016
Leveraging syntactic and semantic graph kernels to extract pharmacokinetic drug drug interactions from biomedical literature
Zhang Y, Wu H, Xu J, Wang J, Soysal E, Li L, Xu H. Leveraging syntactic and semantic graph kernels to extract pharmacokinetic drug drug interactions from biomedical literature. BMC Systems Biology 2016, 10: 67. PMID: 27585838, PMCID: PMC5009562, DOI: 10.1186/s12918-016-0311-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPaths graph kernelGraph kernelsSemantic classesSemantic informationBiomedical literatureShallow semantic representationsText mining techniquesBest F-scoreAutomatic DDI extractionProblem of sparsenessDependency structureSemantic graphDDI detectionKnowledge basesDDI corpusF-scoreDDI extractionSemantic representationNovel approachExperimental resultsKernelHigh precisionInformationSparsenessGraph
2012
DTome: a web-based tool for drug-target interactome construction
Sun J, Wu Y, Xu H, Zhao Z. DTome: a web-based tool for drug-target interactome construction. BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13: s7. PMID: 22901092, PMCID: PMC3372450, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-s9-s7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWeb-based toolUser-friendly web interfaceWeb-based queriesRich data sourceDifferent knowledge basesDatabase schemaWeb interfaceVisualization processKnowledge basesComputational workflowDiscovery processData sourcesNetworkDrug-target interactionsDrugs' primary targetsDrug-target networkWorkflowEarly-stage drug discoveryNetwork analysisQueriesToolPromising approachDrug discovery processSchemaDetailed network analysisExtracting 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