2016
A long journey to short abbreviations: developing an open-source framework for clinical abbreviation recognition and disambiguation (CARD)
Wu Y, Denny J, Rosenbloom S, Miller R, Giuse D, Wang L, Blanquicett C, Soysal E, Xu J, Xu H. A long journey to short abbreviations: developing an open-source framework for clinical abbreviation recognition and disambiguation (CARD). Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2016, 24: e79-e86. PMID: 27539197, PMCID: PMC7651947, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocw109.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical NLP systemsOpen-source frameworkNLP systemsClinical corpusClinical abbreviationsClinic visit notesSense inventoryKnowledge Extraction SystemAbbreviation recognitionWord sense disambiguation methodDischarge summariesF1 scoreExternal corpusClinical narrativesSense disambiguation methodSystem capabilitiesVanderbilt University Medical CenterWrapperFrequent abbreviationsDisambiguation methodMetaMapAbbreviation identificationCardsVisit notesDisambiguation
2015
A Preliminary Study of Clinical Abbreviation Disambiguation in Real Time
Wu Y, Denny J, Rosenbloom S, Miller R, Giuse D, Song M, Xu H. A Preliminary Study of Clinical Abbreviation Disambiguation in Real Time. Applied Clinical Informatics 2015, 06: 364-374. PMID: 26171081, PMCID: PMC4493336, DOI: 10.4338/aci-2014-10-ra-0088.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectronic health record systemsUser studyClinical documentation systemNatural language processing systemsClinical NLP systemsPreliminary user studyAbbreviation recognitionExtra time costLanguage processing systemWSD methodHealth record systemsDocumentation systemPrototype applicationWord sense disambiguation methodNLP systemsCorrect sensesNote generationPrototype systemClinical sentencesCost of timeClinical documentsDocument entryDisambiguation moduleSense disambiguation methodHealthcare records
2013
A prototype application for real-time recognition and disambiguation of clinical abbreviations
Wu Y, Denny J, Rosenbloom S, Miller R, Giuse D, Song M, Xu H. A prototype application for real-time recognition and disambiguation of clinical abbreviations. 2013, 7-8. DOI: 10.1145/2512089.2512096.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchElectronic health record systemsPrototype applicationClinical documentation systemNatural language processing systemsClinical abbreviationsClinical NLP systemsReal-time recognitionLanguage processing systemAverage response timeHealth record systemsDocumentation systemResponse timeWord sense disambiguation methodNLP systemsNote generationPrototype systemClinical documentsSense disambiguation methodHealthcare recordsProcessing systemAbbreviation disambiguationCard systemDisambiguation methodAbbreviation recognitionSystem design