2024
Improving large language models for clinical named entity recognition via prompt engineering
Hu Y, Chen Q, Du J, Peng X, Keloth V, Zuo X, Zhou Y, Li Z, Jiang X, Lu Z, Roberts K, Xu H. Improving large language models for clinical named entity recognition via prompt engineering. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2024, 31: 1812-1820. PMID: 38281112, PMCID: PMC11339492, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocad259.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinical NER tasksNER taskTask-specific promptsEntity recognitionLanguage modelTraining samplesState-of-the-art modelsFew-shot learningState-of-the-artMinimal training dataTask-specific knowledgeF1-socreAnnotated samplesConcept extractionModel performanceAnnotated datasetsTraining dataF1 scoreTask descriptionFormat specificationsComplex clinical dataOptimal performanceTaskEvaluation schemaGPT model
2022
A comparative study of pre-trained language models for named entity recognition in clinical trial eligibility criteria from multiple corpora
Li J, Wei Q, Ghiasvand O, Chen M, Lobanov V, Weng C, Xu H. A comparative study of pre-trained language models for named entity recognition in clinical trial eligibility criteria from multiple corpora. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2022, 22: 235. PMID: 36068551, PMCID: PMC9450226, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-022-01967-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPre-trained language modelsNER taskUnstructured textEntity recognitionLanguage modelNatural language processing techniquesClinical trial eligibility criteriaLanguage processing techniquesData augmentation resultsData augmentation approachDomain-specific corpusBetter performanceTransformer modelCross-validation showMultiple data sourcesEligibility criteria textBiomedical domainEmbedding modelsNER performanceAugmentation approachContextual embeddingsMeaningful informationEvaluation resultsSuch documentsProcessing techniques
2018
Combine Factual Medical Knowledge and Distributed Word Representation to Improve Clinical Named Entity Recognition.
Wu Y, Yang X, Bian J, Guo Y, Xu H, Hogan W. Combine Factual Medical Knowledge and Distributed Word Representation to Improve Clinical Named Entity Recognition. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2018, 2018: 1110-1117. PMID: 30815153, PMCID: PMC6371322.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRecurrent neural networkWord embeddingsOne-hot vectorsWord representationsLow-frequency wordsOnly word embeddingsClinical Named Entity RecognitionClinical NER tasksWord embedding methodsConditional Random FieldsStatistical language modelNamed Entity RecognitionUnlabeled corpusLanguage modelLanguage systemNER taskDecent representationFactual medical knowledgeImportant wordsDeep learning modelsEntity recognitionClinical corpusNamed Entity Recognition SystemArt performanceFeature representation
2016
Chemical named entity recognition in patents by domain knowledge and unsupervised feature learning
Zhang Y, Xu J, Chen H, Wang J, Wu Y, Prakasam M, Xu H. Chemical named entity recognition in patents by domain knowledge and unsupervised feature learning. Database 2016, 2016: baw049. PMID: 27087307, PMCID: PMC4834204, DOI: 10.1093/database/baw049.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMachine learning-based systemsLearning-based systemConditional Random FieldsDomain knowledgeEntity recognitionMatthews correlation coefficientDrug Named Entity RecognitionBioCreative V challengeInformation extraction systemWord representation featuresUnsupervised feature learningUnsupervised learning algorithmNamed Entity RecognitionSemantic type informationSupport vector machinePrecision-recall curveBrown clusteringFeature learningFeature engineeringUnsupervised featureIndividual subtasksMining systemNER taskLearning algorithmCPD task
2015
A study of active learning methods for named entity recognition in clinical text
Chen Y, Lasko T, Mei Q, Denny J, Xu H. A study of active learning methods for named entity recognition in clinical text. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2015, 58: 11-18. PMID: 26385377, PMCID: PMC4934373, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.09.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical NER tasksMachine learningAnnotation costF-measureEntity recognitionNER taskActive learningLearning methodsI2b2/VA NLP challengeNatural language processing systemsPerformance of MLClinical natural language processing (NLP) systemsSequential labeling tasksSupervised machine learningAL methodsLanguage processing systemDiversity-based methodReal-time settingActive learning methodsNew AL methodsNER corpusDomain expertsUncertainty samplingAnnotation effortClinical textNamed Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text Using Deep Neural Network.
Wu Y, Jiang M, Lei J, Xu H. Named Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text Using Deep Neural Network. 2015, 216: 624-8. PMID: 26262126, PMCID: PMC4624324.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDeep neural networksLarge unlabeled corpusNamed Entity RecognitionWord embeddingsUnlabeled corpusUnsupervised learningEntity recognitionNeural networkNatural language processing technologyNovel deep learning methodLanguage processing technologyDeep learning methodsUnsupervised feature learningFeature engineering approachImportant healthcare informationChinese clinical textTypes of entitiesFeature learningNER taskClinical textLearning methodsClinical documentsCRF modelHealthcare informationFree text
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
Clinical 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 processing