Cross-lingual Unified Medical Language System entity linking in online health communities. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 Objective In Hebrew online health communities, participants commonly write medical terms that appear as transliterated forms of a source term in English. Such transliterations introduce high variability in text and challenge text-analytics methods.
Bitton Y +5 more
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Integrating Unified Medical Language System and Kleinberg's Burst Detection Algorithm into Research Topics of Medications for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. [PDF]
Drug Des Devel Ther, 2020 Background The treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has long been a challenge because the symptoms of PTSD are multifaceted. PTSD is primarily treated with psychotherapy and medication, or a combination of psychotherapy and medication.
Xu S +6 more
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Can Unified Medical Language System-based semantic representation improve automated identification of patient safety incident reports by type and severity? [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 Objective The study sought to evaluate the feasibility of using Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic features for automated identification of reports about patient safety incidents by type and severity.
Wang Y, Coiera E, Magrabi F.
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Next generation phenotyping using the unified medical language system. [PDF]
JMIR Med Inform, 2014 Background Structured information within patient medical records represents a largely untapped treasure trove of research data. In the United States, privacy issues notwithstanding, this has recently become more accessible thanks to the increasing ...
Adamusiak T, Shimoyama N, Shimoyama M.
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Integrating unified medical language system and association mining techniques into relevance feedback for biomedical literature search. [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2016 Finding highly relevant articles from biomedical databases is challenging not only because it is often difficult to accurately express a user’s underlying intention through keywords but also because a keyword-based query normally returns a long list of ...
Ji Y +4 more
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ODMSummary: A Tool for Automatic Structured Comparison of Multiple Medical Forms Based on Semantic Annotation with the Unified Medical Language System. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Introduction Medical documentation is applied in various settings including patient care and clinical research. Since procedures of medical documentation are heterogeneous and developed further, secondary use of medical data is complicated.
Storck M, Krumm R, Dugas M.
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JMIR Med Inform, 2019 Background For cancer domains such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a large set of data elements is obtained from different institutions with heterogeneous data definitions within one patient course.
Holz C, Kessler T, Dugas M, Varghese J.
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A transformation-based method for auditing the IS-A hierarchy of biomedical terminologies in the Unified Medical Language System. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 Objective The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) integrates various source terminologies to support interoperability between biomedical information systems. In this article, we introduce a novel transformation-based auditing method that leverages the
Zheng F, Shi J, Yang Y, Zheng WJ, Cui L.
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Unified Medical Language System resources improve sieve-based generation and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based ranking for concept normalization. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 Objective Concept normalization, the task of linking phrases in text to concepts in an ontology, is useful for many downstream tasks including relation extraction, information retrieval, etc.
Xu D +5 more
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Mapping Chinese Medical Entities to the Unified Medical Language System
Health Data Science, 2023 Background Chinese medical entities have not been organized comprehensively due to the lack of well-developed terminology systems, which poses a challenge to processing Chinese medical texts for fine-grained medical knowledge representation.
Luming Chen +4 more
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