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A Metadata Extraction Approach for Clinical Case Reports to Enable Advanced Understanding of Biomedical Concepts
Published on: September 20, 2018
Development and validation of MedDRA Tagger: a tool for extraction and structuring medical information from clinical
Marie Humbert-Droz1, Jessica Corley2, Suzanne Tamang3
1Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
We developed the MedDRA tagger, a fast tool for clinical concept extraction using natural language processing (NLP) and weak supervision. This accelerates machine learning model development and enables large-scale clinical data analysis.
Area of Science:
- Computational linguistics
- Biomedical informatics
- Machine learning
Background:
- Automated clinical information extraction from patient notes is challenging.
- Developing natural language processing (NLP) models requires extensive labeled clinical text.
- Existing methods for clinical concept extraction are often slow and laborious.
Conclusions:
- The MedDRA tagger provides a versatile and efficient solution for clinical concept extraction.
- The tool's modular design allows adaptation to different biomedical ontologies.
- The MedDRA tagger is independent of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, ensuring generalizability.
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