2024
Introduction to Natural Language Processing of Clinical Text
Demner Fushman D, Xu H. Introduction to Natural Language Processing of Clinical Text. Cognitive Informatics In Biomedicine And Healthcare 2024, 3-11. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55865-8_1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNatural language processingLanguage processingComplex language processingBiomedical natural language processingClinical natural language processingLanguage generation tasksClinical language processingBiomedical language processingLanguage modelClinical textGeneration taskMachine learningDelivery of informationClinical languageLanguageDevelopment of Clinical NLP Systems
Xu H, Demner Fushman D. Development of Clinical NLP Systems. Cognitive Informatics In Biomedicine And Healthcare 2024, 301-324. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55865-8_11.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2021
A Discrete Joint Model for Entity and Relation Extraction from Clinical Notes.
Ji Z, Ghiasvand O, Wu S, Xu H. A Discrete Joint Model for Entity and Relation Extraction from Clinical Notes. AMIA Joint Summits On Translational Science Proceedings 2021, 2021: 315-324. PMID: 34457146, PMCID: PMC8378610.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRelation classificationPipeline architectureClinical natural language processingNatural language processingEntity recognitionBeam searchRelation extractionClinical notesLanguage processingClassification stepEntity pairsStructured perceptronFundamental taskClinical narrativesTraditional solutionsRecognition stepError propagationArchitectureJoint modelTaskSubtasksPerceptronClinical conceptsEntitiesClassification
2019
Deep learning in clinical natural language processing: a methodical review
Wu S, Roberts K, Datta S, Du J, Ji Z, Si Y, Soni S, Wang Q, Wei Q, Xiang Y, Zhao B, Xu H. Deep learning in clinical natural language processing: a methodical review. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2019, 27: 457-470. PMID: 31794016, PMCID: PMC7025365, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz200.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processingClinical natural language processingDeep learningLanguage processingComputing Machinery Digital LibraryInformation extraction tasksMedical informatics communityComputational Linguistics anthologyRecurrent neural networkDigital librariesText classificationElectronic health recordsExtraction taskEntity recognitionWord2vec embeddingsNeural networkRelation extractionNLP communityNLP researchInformatics communitySpecific tasksHealth recordsNLP problemLearningClinical domains
2017
Introduction: the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2016: special focus on medical informatics and big data
Tao C, Gong Y, Xu H, Zhao Z. Introduction: the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2016: special focus on medical informatics and big data. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2017, 17: 77. PMID: 28699553, PMCID: PMC5506607, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0462-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIntelligent BiologyBig dataMedical informaticsClinical natural language processingNatural language processingSocial media applicationsData miningElectronic health recordsMedical domainData scienceLanguage processingMedia applicationsHealth recordsInformaticsSpecial themeSafety analysisMiningPersonalizationIssuesPatient safety analysesInternational ConferenceResearch articlesProcessingHealthcareRecent advancesEntity recognition from clinical texts via recurrent neural network
Liu Z, Yang M, Wang X, Chen Q, Tang B, Wang Z, Xu H. Entity recognition from clinical texts via recurrent neural network. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2017, 17: 67. PMID: 28699566, PMCID: PMC5506598, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0468-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRecurrent neural networkNatural language processingEntity recognitionClinical textTraditional machineNeural networkClinical natural language processingMedical concept extractionHand-crafted featuresClinical entity recognitionDeep learning methodsClinical event detectionConditional Random FieldsSupport vector machineI2b2 NLP challengePerformance of LSTMTypes of entitiesClinical domainsContext informationFeature engineeringConcept extractionDe-identificationEvent detectionKnowledge basesLSTM layers
2012
Recognition of medication information from discharge summaries using ensembles of classifiers
Doan S, Collier N, Xu H, Duy P, Phuong T. Recognition of medication information from discharge summaries using ensembles of classifiers. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2012, 12: 36. PMID: 22564405, PMCID: PMC3502425, DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-36.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceDecision Support TechniquesFemaleHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalInstitutional Management TeamsMaleMedication SystemsNatural Language ProcessingPatient DischargePattern Recognition, AutomatedPharmaceutical PreparationsReproducibility of ResultsSemanticsSoftware DesignSupport Vector MachineConceptsConditional Random FieldsNatural language processingClinical natural language processingSupport vector machineBest F-scoreEnsemble classifierF-scoreClinical textIndividual classifiersVoting methodMajority votingLocal support vector machineSupervised machine learning methodsClinical entity recognitionClinical NLP systemsDifferent voting strategiesEntity recognition systemRule-based systemEnsemble of classifiersMachine learning methodsRule-based methodI2b2 NLP challengeEntity recognitionRecognition systemNLP systems
2011
Detecting abbreviations in discharge summaries using machine learning methods.
Wu Y, Rosenbloom S, Denny J, Miller R, Mani S, Giuse D, Xu H. Detecting abbreviations in discharge summaries using machine learning methods. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2011, 2011: 1541-9. PMID: 22195219, PMCID: PMC3243185.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNatural language processingMachine learning methodsHighest F-measureF-measureClinical natural language processingLexical resourcesClinical abbreviationsTraining setPre-defined featuresRandom forest classifierDomain expertsML algorithmsML classifiersLanguage processingVoting schemeLearning methodsDischarge summariesForest classifierTest setClassifierCorpus-based methodSetResourcesAlgorithmAbbreviations