Medical Informatics
Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine
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Natural language plays a central role in medicine. It is by far the most convenient means for health care personnel to convey medical information, particularly in terms of the amount of time required, the ease...
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Accessibility to a comprehensive variety of different types of structured patient data is critical to improvement in the health care process, yet most patient information is in the form of narrative text. Sema...
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In this chapter we provide a broad overview of selected knowledge management, data mining, and text mining techniques and their use in various emerging biomedical applications. It aims to set the context for s...
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After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions:
Why is natural language processing (NLP) important?
Chapter and Conference Paper
This talk presents an overview of our research in use of medical knowledge, natural language processing, the electronic health record, and statistical methods to automatically discover novel adverse drug event...
Article
It is beneficial for health care institutions to monitor physician prescribing patterns to ensure that high-quality and cost-effective care is being provided to patients. However, detecting treatment patterns ...
Article
A shareable repository of clinical notes is critical for advancing natural language processing (NLP) research, and therefore a goal of many NLP researchers is to create a shareable repository of clinical notes...
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Narrative text is an important component of communication in health care, including patient-specific information in health record reports and notes and general biomedical knowledge papers, textbooks and web re...
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This chapter provides a brief overview of linguistic information, and its relevance to clinical text processing. The contents of this chapter will be familiar to the readers who had to identify the words that ...