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Identifying Respiratory-Related Clinical Conditions from ED Reports with Topaz
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Case detection from chief complaints suffers from low to moderate sensitivity. Emergency Department (ED) reports contain detailed clinical information that could improve case detection ability and enhance outbreak… read more… from ED reports, such as: How many new patients have come to the ED with acute lower respiratory symptoms? Of the … called Topaz can identify acute episodes of 55 clinical con- ditions described in emergency department notes. … from ED reports, such as: • How many new patients have come to the ED with acute lower respiratory symptoms? • Of … -
Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance
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We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more… language processing system for real-time surveillance WW Chapman, M Conway, JN Dowling, F-C Tsui, Q Li, LM … Journal 2011, 4:s68. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.10.068 & 2011 WW Chapman et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 7 challenges are caused less by NLP … -
Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more… Divita et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 21 Veterans Affairs has a real need to … 1–2 December 2010. References 1 Demner-Fushman D, Chapman WW, McDonald CJ. What can natural language processing do for … Annotation Workshop, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, pp 27–34. www.aclweb.org/anthol- ogy/W/W09/W09-3004.pdf. 3 Dolin R, …