A sequence labeling approach to link medications and their attributes in clinical notes and clinical trial announcements for information extraction

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 915-921

  Li, Qi ^a   Zhai, Haijun ^a   Deleger, Louise ^a   Lingren, Todd ^a   Kaiser, Megan ^a   Stoutenborough, Laura ^a   Solti, Imre ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); GOLD STANDARD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ATTRIBUTE LINKAGES; CLINICAL NOTES; CLINICAL TRIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS; MULTI-LAYERED SEQUENCE LABELING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84882771550     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001487     Document Type: Article

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