2020
COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes
Dong X, Li J, Soysal E, Bian J, DuVall S, Hanchrow E, Liu H, Lynch K, Matheny M, Natarajan K, Ohno-Machado L, Pakhomov S, Reeves R, Sitapati A, Abhyankar S, Cullen T, Deckard J, Jiang X, Murphy R, Xu H. COVID-19 TestNorm: A tool to normalize COVID-19 testing names to LOINC codes. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2020, 27: 1437-1442. PMID: 32569358, PMCID: PMC7337837, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa145.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectronic health recordsLOINC codesSecondary useRule-based toolOnline web applicationOpen-source packageCritical data elementsWeb applicationData networksEnd usersData elementsIndependent test setHealth recordsTest setKey challengesData normalizationCritical resourcesTest namesRoutine clinical practice dataCodeClinical practice dataCoronavirus disease 2019COVID-19 diagnostic testsToolDevelopers
2018
DataMed – an open source discovery index for finding biomedical datasets
Chen X, Gururaj A, Ozyurt B, Liu R, Soysal E, Cohen T, Tiryaki F, Li Y, Zong N, Jiang M, Rogith D, Salimi M, Kim H, Rocca-Serra P, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Farcas C, Johnson T, Margolis R, Alter G, Sansone S, Fore I, Ohno-Machado L, Grethe J, Xu H. DataMed – an open source discovery index for finding biomedical datasets. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2018, 25: 300-308. PMID: 29346583, PMCID: PMC7378878, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchIngestion pipelineBiomedical datasetsSearch enginesBiomedical domainAdvanced natural language processingRelevant datasetsUser-entered queryData discovery systemUnified metadata modelData ingestion pipelinesNatural language processingOpen-source packageRetrieval engineTerminology servicesMetadata modelMetadata informationDiscovery systemData reuseDataMedBenchmark datasetsBiomedical dataData indexAverage precisionLanguage processingSource package