Valx: A system for extracting and structuring numeric lab test comparison statements from text

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 266-275

  Hao, Tianyong ^a,b   Liu, Hongfang ^c   Weng, Chunhua ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^c Department of Health Sciences Research ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Comparison statement; Medical informatics; Natural language processing; Patient selection

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA MINING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84968760283     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME15-01-0112     Document Type: Article

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