2019
Cost-aware active learning for named entity recognition in clinical text
Wei Q, Chen Y, Salimi M, Denny J, Mei Q, Lasko T, Chen Q, Wu S, Franklin A, Cohen T, Xu H. Cost-aware active learning for named entity recognition in clinical text. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2019, 26: 1314-1322. PMID: 31294792, PMCID: PMC6798575, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz102.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAnnotation costUser studyActive learningAL methodsAL algorithmCost-CAUSEReal-world environmentsAnnotation taskAnnotation timeAnnotation accuracyEntity recognitionClinical textAnnotation dataPassive learningInformative examplesCurve scoreMost approachesSimulation areaUsersSyntactic featuresLearningCost measuresAlgorithmCostAnnotation
2017
User needs analysis and usability assessment of DataMed – a biomedical data discovery index
Dixit R, Rogith D, Narayana V, Salimi M, Gururaj A, Ohno-Machado L, Xu H, Johnson T. User needs analysis and usability assessment of DataMed – a biomedical data discovery index. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2017, 25: 337-344. PMID: 29202203, PMCID: PMC7378884, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx134.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchData discoveryUsability evaluationInformation needsUser interfaceBiomedical dataIterative usability evaluationsInformation retrieval toolsUser interface needsHigh-quality metadataResearchers informationCommon search enginesDiscovery systemRetrieval toolsDataMedUser studyRelevance judgmentsSearch enginesUser needsDataset explorationUsability assessmentRetrieval techniquesNew retrieval techniqueIncomplete metadataMetadataUsersAn active learning-enabled annotation system for clinical named entity recognition
Chen Y, Lask T, Mei Q, Chen Q, Moon S, Wang J, Nguyen K, Dawodu T, Cohen T, Denny J, Xu H. An active learning-enabled annotation system for clinical named entity recognition. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2017, 17: 82. PMID: 28699546, PMCID: PMC5506567, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0466-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNovel AL algorithmAL algorithmAnnotation timeUser studyEntity recognitionAnnotation systemNatural language processing modelsLanguage processing modelsAnnotation costMedical domainAnnotation processDifferent usersNER modelProcessing modelAlgorithmAL methodsResultsThe simulation resultsUsersSimulation resultsInformation contentFuture workRecognitionLarge numberSystemReal-life setting
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