2023
Development of a Natural Language Processing Tool to Extract Acupuncture Point Location Terms
Li Y, Peng X, Li J, Peng S, Pei D, Tao C, Xu H, Hong N. Development of a Natural Language Processing Tool to Extract Acupuncture Point Location Terms. 2023, 00: 344-351. DOI: 10.1109/ichi57859.2023.00053.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAcupuncture point locationsNatural language processingRecurrent neural networkConditional random fieldWorld Health OrganizationWorld Health Organization standardsNatural language processing toolsEffect of acupuncture therapyLocation informationAcupuncture researchAcupuncture therapyAcupoint locationRecurrent neural network modelDictionary lookup methodNatural language processing modelsDeep learning techniquesAcupunctureLanguage processing toolsWestern Pacific RegionFree-text formatInternational anatomical terminologyHealth OrganizationF1 scoreInformatics applicationsNeural network
2021
COVID-19 SignSym: a fast adaptation of a general clinical NLP tool to identify and normalize COVID-19 signs and symptoms to OMOP common data model
Wang J, Abu-El-Rub N, Gray J, Pham H, Zhou Y, Manion F, Liu M, Song X, Xu H, Rouhizadeh M, Zhang Y. COVID-19 SignSym: a fast adaptation of a general clinical NLP tool to identify and normalize COVID-19 signs and symptoms to OMOP common data model. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1275-1283. PMID: 33674830, PMCID: PMC7989301, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processing toolsCommon data modelLanguage processing toolsElectronic health recordsClinical natural language processing toolsData modelDeep learning-based modelProcessing toolsOMOP Common Data ModelPattern-based rulesObservational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data ModelLearning-based modelsSpecific information needsUse casesNLP toolsClinical textFree textExtensive evaluationDownloadable packageInformation needsHybrid approachResearch communityHealth recordsData sourcesHigh performance
2020
Efficient and Accurate Extracting of Unstructured EHRs on Cancer Therapy Responses for the Development of RECIST Natural Language Processing Tools: Part I, the Corpus
Li Y, Luo Y, Wampfler J, Rubinstein S, Tiryaki F, Ashok K, Warner J, Xu H, Yang P. Efficient and Accurate Extracting of Unstructured EHRs on Cancer Therapy Responses for the Development of RECIST Natural Language Processing Tools: Part I, the Corpus. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 2020, 4: cci.19.00147. PMID: 32364754, PMCID: PMC7265793, DOI: 10.1200/cci.19.00147.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processing toolsElectronic health recordsLanguage processing toolsGold standard dataUnstructured electronic health recordsProcessing toolsAmount of dataClinical notesStandard dataMayo Clinic electronic health recordsClinic's electronic health recordEnvironment toolsAccurate annotationHealth recordsInformatics toolsEffective analysisData setsTextual sourcesCorpusToolInformationData extractionSetExtractingAnnotation
2019
Development of a Natural Language Processing Tool to Extract Radiation Treatment Sites
Walker G, Soysal E, Xu H. Development of a Natural Language Processing Tool to Extract Radiation Treatment Sites. Cureus 2019, 11: e6010. PMID: 31815074, PMCID: PMC6881088, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.6010.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2014
Identifying plausible adverse drug reactions using knowledge extracted from the literature
Shang N, Xu H, Rindflesch T, Cohen T. Identifying plausible adverse drug reactions using knowledge extracted from the literature. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2014, 52: 293-310. PMID: 25046831, PMCID: PMC4261011, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.07.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPredication-based Semantic IndexingReflective Random IndexingLBD methodsNatural language processing toolsBiomedical literatureDrug-adverse event associationsLanguage processing toolsSemantic indexingElectronic health recordsRandom IndexingHuman reviewVast repositoryDiscovery methodsVolume of knowledgeProcessing toolsEvaluation setHealth recordsData sourcesEvent associationsIndexingDrug-effect relationshipsRepositoryLarge volumesADR associationsReasoning pathwaysOpen Source Clinical NLP - More than Any Single System.
Masanz J, Pakhomov S, Xu H, Wu S, Chute C, Liu H. Open Source Clinical NLP - More than Any Single System. AMIA Joint Summits On Translational Science Proceedings 2014, 2014: 76-82. PMID: 25954581, PMCID: PMC4419764.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinical NLPNLP systemsNatural language processing toolsOpen source softwareLanguage processing toolsInformation technology practicesPluggable componentsSource softwareNLP softwareProcessing capabilitiesProcessing toolsResearch communityNLPCollaborative communitySingle systemSoftwareTechnology practicesNLP activityUIMAAnnotatorsSystemApacheOngoing activityFrameworkCapability
2013
Analyzing differences between chinese and english clinical text: a cross-institution comparison of discharge summaries in two languages.
Wu Y, Lei J, Wei W, Tang B, Denny J, Rosenbloom S, Miller R, Giuse D, Zheng K, Xu H. Analyzing differences between chinese and english clinical text: a cross-institution comparison of discharge summaries in two languages. 2013, 192: 662-6. PMID: 23920639, PMCID: PMC4957806.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processing toolsEnglish clinical textClinical textLanguage processing toolsChinese clinical textCultural differencesMajor clinical componentsTextWestern institutionsInpatient discharge summariesCross-country collaborationDocument levelProcessing toolsClinical documentsLanguageUS institutionsUsesUnprecedented amountValuable insightsInstitutionsDocumentsChinaWorldwide adoptionEMR dataCollaboration
2006
A natural language processing (NLP) tool to assist in the curation of the laboratory Mouse Tumor Biology Database.
Xu H, Krupke D, Blake J, Friedman C. A natural language processing (NLP) tool to assist in the curation of the laboratory Mouse Tumor Biology Database. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2006, 2006: 1150. PMID: 17238769, PMCID: PMC1839428.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMouse Genome Informatics groupNatural language processing toolsModel organism databaseMouse Tumor Biology DatabaseLanguage processing toolsBiology databasesOrganism databasesGenomic informationBiological communitiesProcessing toolsSpecific organismsInformatics GroupOrganismsKey informationDatabaseInformationSubstantial effortCurationTool