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most citedClinical Concept Extraction: a Methodology Review

186 citations · 334 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CY2023★ 6 cited

From Military to Healthcare: Adopting and Expanding Ethical Principles for Generative Artificial Intelligence

David Oniani, Jordan Hilsman, Yifan Peng +5

In 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense officially disclosed a set of ethical principles to guide the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies on future battlefields. Despi…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Large Language Models Vote: Prompting for Rare Disease Identification

David Oniani, Jordan Hilsman, Hang Dong +3

The emergence of generative Large Language Models (LLMs) emphasizes the need for accurate and efficient prompting approaches. LLMs are often applied in Few-Shot Learning (FSL) cont…

cs.LG2023

Fair Patient Model: Mitigating Bias in the Patient Representation Learned from the Electronic Health Records

Sonish Sivarajkumar, Yufei Huang, Yanshan Wang

Objective: To pre-train fair and unbiased patient representations from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) using a novel weighted loss function that reduces bias and improves fairness…

cs.CL2023

Less Likely Brainstorming: Using Language Models to Generate Alternative Hypotheses

Liyan Tang, Yifan Peng, Yanshan Wang +3

A human decision-maker benefits the most from an AI assistant that corrects for their biases. For problems such as generating interpretation of a radiology report given findings, a…

cs.CL2023

ReDWINE: A Clinical Datamart with Text Analytical Capabilities to Facilitate Rehabilitation Research

David Oniani, Bambang Parmanto, Andi Saptono +9

Rehabilitation research focuses on determining the components of a treatment intervention, the mechanism of how these components lead to recovery and rehabilitation, and ultimately…

cs.CL2023

Mining Clinical Notes for Physical Rehabilitation Exercise Information: Natural Language Processing Algorithm Development and Validation Study

Sonish Sivarajkumar, Fengyi Gao, Parker E. Denny +4

Post-stroke patient rehabilitation requires precise, personalized treatment plans. Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers potential to extract valuable exercise information from…

cs.CL2022★ 9 cited

Toward Improving Health Literacy in Patient Education Materials with Neural Machine Translation Models

David Oniani, Sreekanth Sreekumar, Renuk DeAlmeida +6

Health literacy is the central focus of Healthy People 2030, the fifth iteration of the U.S. national goals and objectives. People with low health literacy usually have trouble und…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Automated Fidelity Assessment for Strategy Training in Inpatient Rehabilitation using Natural Language Processing

Hunter Osterhoudt, Courtney E. Schneider, Haneef A Mohammad +5

Strategy training is a multidisciplinary rehabilitation approach that teaches skills to reduce disability among those with cognitive impairments following a stroke. Strategy traini…

cs.CL2022

Graph-Augmented Cyclic Learning Framework for Similarity Estimation of Medical Clinical Notes

Can Zheng, Yanshan Wang, Xiaowei Jia

Semantic textual similarity (STS) in the clinical domain helps improve diagnostic efficiency and produce concise texts for downstream data mining tasks. However, given the high deg…

cs.CL2022

Few-Shot Learning for Clinical Natural Language Processing Using Siamese Neural Networks

David Oniani, Sonish Sivarajkumar, Yanshan Wang

Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become an emerging technology in healthcare that leverages a large amount of free-text data in electronic health records (EHRs) to im…

cs.CL2022★ 34 cited

HealthPrompt: A Zero-shot Learning Paradigm for Clinical Natural Language Processing

Sonish Sivarajkumar, Yanshan Wang

Deep learning algorithms are dependent on the availability of large-scale annotated clinical text datasets. The lack of such publicly available datasets is the biggest bottleneck f…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Neural Language Models with Distant Supervision to Identify Major Depressive Disorder from Clinical Notes

Bhavani Singh Agnikula Kshatriya, Nicolas A Nunez, Manuel Gardea- Resendez +6

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder that is associated with significant healthcare burden worldwide. Phenotyping of MDD can help early diagnosis and…

cs.CY2021★ 52 cited

Social and behavioral determinants of health in the era of artificial intelligence with electronic health records: A scoping review

Anusha Bompelli, Yanshan Wang, Ruyuan Wan +8

Background: There is growing evidence that social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) play a substantial effect in a wide range of health outcomes. Electronic health recor…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Extracting Lifestyle Factors for Alzheimer's Disease from Clinical Notes Using Deep Learning with Weak Supervision

Zitao Shen, Yoonkwon Yi, Anusha Bompelli +3

Since no effective therapies exist for Alzheimer's disease (AD), prevention has become more critical through lifestyle factor changes and interventions. Analyzing electronic health…

cs.IR2020★ 2 cited

A Qualitative Evaluation of Language Models on Automatic Question-Answering for COVID-19

David Oniani, Yanshan Wang

COVID-19 has resulted in an ongoing pandemic and as of 12 June 2020, has caused more than 7.4 million cases and over 418,000 deaths. The highly dynamic and rapidly evolving situati…

cs.IR2019★ 186 cited

Clinical Concept Extraction: a Methodology Review

Sunyang Fu, David Chen, Huan He +10

Background Concept extraction, a subdomain of natural language processing (NLP) with a focus on extracting concepts of interest, has been adopted to computationally extract clinica…

cs.IR2019

How Good is Artificial Intelligence at Automatically Answering Consumer Questions Related to Alzheimer's Disease?

Krishna B. Soundararajan, Sunyang Fu, Luke A. Carlson +4

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, comprising 60-80% of cases. There were an estimated 5.8 million Americans living with Alzheimer's dementia in 2019, an…

cs.IR2018★ 3 cited

MedSTS: A Resource for Clinical Semantic Textual Similarity

Yanshan Wang, Naveed Afzal, Sunyang Fu +4

The wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has enabled a wide range of applications leveraging EHR data. However, the meaningful use of EHR data largely depends on our a…

cs.IR2018★ 28 cited

A Comparison of Word Embeddings for the Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Yanshan Wang, Sijia Liu, Naveed Afzal +5

Word embeddings have been widely used in biomedical Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications as they provide vector representations of words capturing the semantic properties…

cs.IR2015★ 2 cited

Generalized Ensemble Model for Document Ranking in Information Retrieval

Yanshan Wang, In-Chan Choi, Hongfang Liu

A generalized ensemble model (gEnM) for document ranking is proposed in this paper. The gEnM linearly combines basis document retrieval models and tries to retrieve relevant docume…