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Open AccessReal-world treatment response in Japanese patients with cancer using unstructured data from electronic health records
We generated methods for evaluating clinical outcomes including treatment response in oncology using the unstructured data from electronic health records (EHR) in Japanese language.
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Open AccessDevelo** Artificial Intelligence Models for Extracting Oncologic Outcomes from Japanese Electronic Health Records
A framework that extracts oncological outcomes from large-scale databases using artificial intelligence (AI) is not well established. Thus, we aimed to develop AI models to extract outcomes in patients with lu...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a quantitative methylation-specific droplet digital PCR assay for detecting Dickkopf-related protein 3
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Text-Based Speaker Identification for Video Game Dialogues
Speaker identification presents a challenging task in the field of natural language processing and is believed to be an important step in building believable human-like systems. Although most of the existing w...
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Comparison of Sequence Variants and the Application in Electronic Medical Records
A sequence variant is a data structure that represents elements with partial order, and it can be regarded as a sequence with branches. The comparison of sequence variants is an important problem in practical ...
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OPTICS: Automatic MT Evaluation Based on Optimal Transport by Integration of Contextual Representations and Static Word Embeddings
Automatic MT metrics using word embeddings are extremely effective. Semantic word similarities are obtained using word embeddings. However, similarities using only static word embeddings are insufficient for l...
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Financial Estimation of the Uncertainty in Medicine Using Present Value of Medical Fees and a Mortality Risk Prediction Model: a Retrospective Cohort Study
This study aimed to develop a method to enable the financial estimation of each patient’s uncertainty without focusing on healthcare technology. We define financial uncertainty (FU) as the difference between a...
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Development of a General Statistical Analytical System Using Nationally Standardized Medical Information
In Japan, since the Next Generation Medical Infrastructure Act regarding anonymized medical data contributing to R&D came into force in 2018, it is expected to exploit medical data for R&D. The Millennial Medi...
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Event Surrogate from Clinical Pathway Completion to Daily Meal for Availability Extension Using Standard Electronic Medical Records: a Retrospective Cohort Study
This study aimed to improve generalizability of our previous study that analyzed clinical pathway (CP) completion. Although our previous study demonstrated that CP completion can reduce the length of hospital ...
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Open AccessStretchable micro-scale concentrator photovoltaic module with 15.4% efficiency for three-dimensional curved surfaces
Stretchable photovoltaics are emerging power sources for collapsible electronics, biomedical devices, and buildings and vehicles with curved surfaces. Development of stretchable photovoltaics are crucial to ac...
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Open AccessCausation between Pathway Completion and Reduced Hospital Stay in Patients with Lung Cancer: a Retrospective Cohort Study Using Propensity Score Matching
We have previously demonstrated that clinical pathway completion helps reduce hospital stays. However, our previous results showed only a correlation, not causation. Therefore, the current study’s aim was to a...
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The Development of Medical Markup Language Version 4 as a Clinical Document Exchange Format for Nationwide EHR Systems
Medical Markup Language (MML) is a standard format for exchange of healthcare data among healthcare providers. Following the last major update (version 3), we developed new modules and discussed the requiremen...
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Overview of Si Tandem Solar Cells and Approaches to PV-Powered Vehicle Applications
Development of high-efficiency solar cell modules and new application fields are significant for the further development of photovoltaics (PV) and creation of new clean energy infrastructure based on PV. Espec...
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Evaluating Classification Algorithms for Recognizing Figurative Expressions in Japanese Literary Texts
In this paper we introduce computational model for recognizing figurative expressions in Japanese language. As a part of the training data we use the set of almost 26,000 Japanese sentences comprising both si...
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Extraction and Graph Structuring of Variants By Detecting Common Parts of Frequent Clinical Pathways
In this research, common parts of frequent sequences were detected from medical instructions for catheter ablation described in the clinical pathways of University of Miyazaki Hospital, deformed patterns (var...
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Enriching the Semantics of Temporal Relations for Temporal Pattern Mining
This paper proposes a method to enrich the semantics of before/after relations based on the closeness between two events and contexts surrounding two events identified by a key event in a period. The proposed ...
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Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs-Preliminary Analysis
This paper is an attempt at analyzing how much religious vocabulary (in this case Buddhist vocabulary taken from a large scale dictionary of Buddhist terms available online) is present in everyday Japanese so...
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Comparing Conceptual Metaphor Theory-Related Features Using Classification Algorithms in Searching for Expressions Used Figuratively Within Japanese Texts
In this work we propose an approach towards identifying expressions used figuratively in Japanese literary texts by means of the classification algorithm. Our considerations are inspired mostly by the epoch-ma...
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Emotional evaluation for pictures displayed with small FOV telescope environment in virtual reality headset
We carried out an experiment to examine emotional effect associated with images displayed in small field of view (FOV) telescope like virtual screen environment with VR-HMDs. We manipulate FOV of a virtual cam...
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Analyzing Motivating Texts for Modelling Human-Like Motivation Techniques in Emotionally Intelligent Dialogue Systems
In this paper, we present studies on human-like motivational strategies which eventually will allow us to implement motivational support in our general dialogue system. We conducted a study on user comments fr...
