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Abedian Kalkhoran H, Zwaveling J, van Hunsel F, Kant A. An innovative method to strengthen evidence for potential drug safety signals using Electronic Health Records. J Med Syst 2024; 48:51. [PMID: 38753223 PMCID: PMC11098892 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-024-02070-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
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Reports from spontaneous reporting systems (SRS) are hypothesis generating. Additional evidence such as more reports is required to determine whether the generated drug-event associations are in fact safety signals. However, underreporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) delays signal detection. Through the use of natural language processing, different sources of real-world data can be used to proactively collect additional evidence for potential safety signals. This study aims to explore the feasibility of using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to identify additional cases based on initial indications from spontaneous ADR reports, with the goal of strengthening the evidence base for potential safety signals. For two confirmed and two potential signals generated by the SRS of the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, targeted searches in the EHR of the Leiden University Medical Centre were performed using a text-mining based tool, CTcue. The search for additional cases was done by constructing and running queries in the structured and free-text fields of the EHRs. We identified at least five additional cases for the confirmed signals and one additional case for each potential safety signal. The majority of the identified cases for the confirmed signals were documented in the EHRs before signal detection by the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board. The identified cases for the potential signals were reported to Lareb as further evidence for signal detection. Our findings highlight the feasibility of performing targeted searches in the EHR based on an underlying hypothesis to provide further evidence for signal generation.
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- H Abedian Kalkhoran
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands.
- Department of Pharmacy, Haga Teaching Hospital, The Hague, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- The Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
- The Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
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Li Y, Tao W, Li Z, Sun Z, Li F, Fenton S, Xu H, Tao C. Artificial intelligence-powered pharmacovigilance: A review of machine and deep learning in clinical text-based adverse drug event detection for benchmark datasets. J Biomed Inform 2024; 152:104621. [PMID: 38447600 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/03/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this review is to investigate the effectiveness of machine learning and deep learning methodologies in the context of extracting adverse drug events (ADEs) from clinical benchmark datasets. We conduct an in-depth analysis, aiming to compare the merits and drawbacks of both machine learning and deep learning techniques, particularly within the framework of named-entity recognition (NER) and relation classification (RC) tasks related to ADE extraction. Additionally, our focus extends to the examination of specific features and their impact on the overall performance of these methodologies. In a broader perspective, our research extends to ADE extraction from various sources, including biomedical literature, social media data, and drug labels, removing the limitation to exclusively machine learning or deep learning methods. METHODS We conducted an extensive literature review on PubMed using the query "(((machine learning [Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Terms]) OR (deep learning [MeSH Terms])) AND (adverse drug event [MeSH Terms])) AND (extraction)", and supplemented this with a snowballing approach to review 275 references sourced from retrieved articles. RESULTS In our analysis, we included twelve articles for review. For the NER task, deep learning models outperformed machine learning models. In the RC task, gradient Boosting, multilayer perceptron and random forest models excelled. The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model consistently achieved the best performance in the end-to-end task. Future efforts in the end-to-end task should prioritize improving NER accuracy, especially for 'ADE' and 'Reason'. CONCLUSION These findings hold significant implications for advancing the field of ADE extraction and pharmacovigilance, ultimately contributing to improved drug safety monitoring and healthcare outcomes.
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- Yiming Li
- McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
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- McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
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Modi S, Kasmiran KA, Mohd Sharef N, Sharum MY. Extracting adverse drug events from clinical Notes: A systematic review of approaches used. J Biomed Inform 2024; 151:104603. [PMID: 38331081 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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BACKGROUND An adverse drug event (ADE) is any unfavorable effect that occurs due to the use of a drug. Extracting ADEs from unstructured clinical notes is essential to biomedical text extraction research because it helps with pharmacovigilance and patient medication studies. OBJECTIVE From the considerable amount of clinical narrative text, natural language processing (NLP) researchers have developed methods for extracting ADEs and their related attributes. This work presents a systematic review of current methods. METHODOLOGY Two biomedical databases have been searched from June 2022 until December 2023 for relevant publications regarding this review, namely the databases PubMed and Medline. Similarly, we searched the multi-disciplinary databases IEEE Xplore, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and the ACL Anthology. We adopted the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 statement guidelines and recommendations for reporting systematic reviews in conducting this review. Initially, we obtained 5,537 articles from the search results from the various databases between 2015 and 2023. Based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria for article selection, 100 publications have undergone full-text review, of which we consider 82 for our analysis. RESULTS We determined the general pattern for extracting ADEs from clinical notes, with named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) being the dual tasks considered. Researchers that tackled both NER and RE simultaneously have approached ADE extraction as a "pipeline extraction" problem (n = 22), as a "joint task extraction" problem (n = 7), and as a "multi-task learning" problem (n = 6), while others have tackled only NER (n = 27) or RE (n = 20). We further grouped the reviews based on the approaches for data extraction, namely rule-based (n = 8), machine learning (n = 11), deep learning (n = 32), comparison of two or more approaches (n = 11), hybrid (n = 12) and large language models (n = 8). The most used datasets are MADE 1.0, TAC 2017 and n2c2 2018. CONCLUSION Extracting ADEs is crucial, especially for pharmacovigilance studies and patient medications. This survey showcases advances in ADE extraction research, approaches, datasets, and state-of-the-art performance in them. Challenges and future research directions are highlighted. We hope this review will guide researchers in gaining background knowledge and developing more innovative ways to address the challenges.
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- Salisu Modi
- Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Computer Science, Sokoto State University, Sokoto, Nigeria.
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- Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Deimazar G, Sheikhtaheri A. Machine learning models to detect and predict patient safety events using electronic health records: A systematic review. Int J Med Inform 2023; 180:105246. [PMID: 37837710 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Identifying patient safety events using electronic health records (EHRs) and automated machine learning-based detection methods can help improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare service provision. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to systematically review machine learning-based methods and techniques, as well as their results for patient safety event management using EHRs. METHODS We reviewed the studies that focused on machine learning techniques, including automatic prediction and detection of patient safety events and medical errors through EHR analysis to manage patient safety events. The data were collected by searching Scopus, PubMed (Medline), Web of Science, EMBASE, and IEEE Xplore databases. RESULTS After screening, 41 papers were reviewed. Support vector machine (SVM), random forest, conditional random field (CRF), and bidirectional long short-term memory with conditional random field (BiLSTM-CRF) algorithms were mostly applied to predict, identify, and classify patient safety events using EHRs; however, they had different performances. BiLSTM-CRF was employed in most of the studies to extract and identify concepts, e.g., adverse drug events (ADEs) and adverse drug reactions (ADRs), as well as relationships between drug and severity, drug and ADEs, drug and ADRs. Recurrent neural networks (RNN) and BiLSTM-CRF had the best results in detecting ADEs compared to other patient safety events. Linear classifiers and Naive Bayes (NB) had the highest performance for ADR detection. Logistic regression had the best results in detecting surgical site infections. According to the findings, the quality of articles has non-significantly improved in recent years, but they had low average scores. CONCLUSIONS Machine learning can be useful in automatic detection and prediction of patient safety events. However, most of these algorithms have not yet been externally validated or prospectively tested. Therefore, further studies are required to improve the performance of these automated systems.
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- Ghasem Deimazar
- Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Fraile Navarro D, Ijaz K, Rezazadegan D, Rahimi-Ardabili H, Dras M, Coiera E, Berkovsky S. Clinical named entity recognition and relation extraction using natural language processing of medical free text: A systematic review. Int J Med Inform 2023; 177:105122. [PMID: 37295138 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2022] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications have developed over the past years in various fields including its application to clinical free text for named entity recognition and relation extraction. However, there has been rapid developments the last few years that there's currently no overview of it. Moreover, it is unclear how these models and tools have been translated into clinical practice. We aim to synthesize and review these developments. METHODS We reviewed literature from 2010 to date, searching PubMed, Scopus, the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) libraries for studies of NLP systems performing general-purpose (i.e., not disease- or treatment-specific) information extraction and relation extraction tasks in unstructured clinical text (e.g., discharge summaries). RESULTS We included in the review 94 studies with 30 studies published in the last three years. Machine learning methods were used in 68 studies, rule-based in 5 studies, and both in 22 studies. 63 studies focused on Named Entity Recognition, 13 on Relation Extraction and 18 performed both. The most frequently extracted entities were "problem", "test" and "treatment". 72 studies used public datasets and 22 studies used proprietary datasets alone. Only 14 studies defined clearly a clinical or information task to be addressed by the system and just three studies reported its use outside the experimental setting. Only 7 studies shared a pre-trained model and only 8 an available software tool. DISCUSSION Machine learning-based methods have dominated the NLP field on information extraction tasks. More recently, Transformer-based language models are taking the lead and showing the strongest performance. However, these developments are mostly based on a few datasets and generic annotations, with very few real-world use cases. This may raise questions about the generalizability of findings, translation into practice and highlights the need for robust clinical evaluation.
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- David Fraile Navarro
- Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
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- Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. School of Software and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Botsis T, Kreimeyer K. Improving drug safety with adverse event detection using natural language processing. Expert Opin Drug Saf 2023; 22:659-668. [PMID: 37339273 DOI: 10.1080/14740338.2023.2228197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Pharmacovigilance (PV) involves monitoring and aggregating adverse event information from a variety of data sources, including health records, biomedical literature, spontaneous adverse event reports, product labels, and patient-generated content like social media posts, but the most pertinent details in these sources are typically available in narrative free-text formats. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be used to extract clinically relevant information from PV texts to inform decision-making. AREAS COVERED We conducted a non-systematic literature review by querying the PubMed database to examine the uses of NLP in drug safety and distilled the findings to present our expert opinion on the topic. EXPERT OPINION New NLP techniques and approaches continue to be applied for drug safety use cases; however, systems that are fully deployed and in use in a clinical environment remain vanishingly rare. To see high-performing NLP techniques implemented in the real setting will require long-term engagement with end users and other stakeholders and revised workflows in fully formulated business plans for the targeted use cases. Additionally, we found little to no evidence of extracted information placed into standardized data models, which should be a way to make implementations more portable and adaptable.
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- Taxiarchis Botsis
- Department of Oncology, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Oncology, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Ramachandran GK, Lybarger K, Liu Y, Mahajan D, Liang JJ, Tsou CH, Yetisgen M, Uzuner Ö. Extracting medication changes in clinical narratives using pre-trained language models. J Biomed Inform 2023; 139:104302. [PMID: 36754129 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Revised: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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An accurate and detailed account of patient medications, including medication changes within the patient timeline, is essential for healthcare providers to provide appropriate patient care. Healthcare providers or the patients themselves may initiate changes to patient medication. Medication changes take many forms, including prescribed medication and associated dosage modification. These changes provide information about the overall health of the patient and the rationale that led to the current care. Future care can then build on the resulting state of the patient. This work explores the automatic extraction of medication change information from free-text clinical notes. The Contextual Medication Event Dataset (CMED) is a corpus of clinical notes with annotations that characterize medication changes through multiple change-related attributes, including the type of change (start, stop, increase, etc.), initiator of the change, temporality, change likelihood, and negation. Using CMED, we identify medication mentions in clinical text and propose three novel high-performing BERT-based systems that resolve the annotated medication change characteristics. We demonstrate that our proposed systems improve medication change classification performance over the initial work exploring CMED.
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- Department of Information Sciences & Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Information Sciences & Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America
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- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States of America
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- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States of America
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- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Information Sciences & Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America
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Salas M, Petracek J, Yalamanchili P, Aimer O, Kasthuril D, Dhingra S, Junaid T, Bostic T. The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacovigilance: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Pharmaceut Med 2022; 36:295-306. [PMID: 35904529 DOI: 10.1007/s40290-022-00441-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Artificial intelligence through machine learning uses algorithms and prior learnings to make predictions. Recently, there has been interest to include more artificial intelligence in pharmacovigilance of products already in the market and pharmaceuticals in development. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify and describe the uses of artificial intelligence in pharmacovigilance through a systematic literature review. METHODS Embase and MEDLINE database searches were conducted for articles published from January 1, 2015 to July 9, 2021 using search terms such as 'pharmacovigilance,' 'patient safety,' 'artificial intelligence,' and 'machine learning' in the title or abstract. Scientific articles that contained information on the use of artificial intelligence in all modalities of patient safety or pharmacovigilance were reviewed and synthesized using a pre-specified data extraction template. Articles with incomplete information and letters to editor, notes, and commentaries were excluded. RESULTS Sixty-six articles were identified for evaluation. Most relevant articles on artificial intelligence focused on machine learning, and it was used in patient safety in the identification of adverse drug events (ADEs) and adverse drug reactions (ADRs) (57.6%), processing safety reports (21.2%), extraction of drug-drug interactions (7.6%), identification of populations at high risk for drug toxicity or guidance for personalized care (7.6%), prediction of side effects (3.0%), simulation of clinical trials (1.5%), and integration of prediction uncertainties into diagnostic classifiers to increase patient safety (1.5%). Artificial intelligence has been used to identify safety signals through automated processes and training with machine learning models; however, the findings may not be generalizable given that there were different types of data included in each source. CONCLUSION Artificial intelligence allows for the processing and analysis of large amounts of data and can be applied to various disease states. The automation and machine learning models can optimize pharmacovigilance processes and provide a more efficient way to analyze information relevant to safety, although more research is needed to identify if this optimization has an impact on the quality of safety analyses. It is expected that its use will increase in the near future, particularly with its role in the prediction of side effects and ADRs.
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- Maribel Salas
- Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. & Center for Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Therapeutics (CREST), University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 211 Mount Airy Rd, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA
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- Institute of Pharmacovigilance, Hvezdova 2b, 14000, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. & Rutgers University, 211 Mount Airy Rd, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacy Practice, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hajipur, India
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- PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Wilmington, NC, USA
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DRUG REPOSITIONING FOR CANCER IN THE ERA OF BIG OMICS AND REAL-WORLD DATA. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2022; 175:103730. [DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2022.103730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Revised: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Luo X, Gandhi P, Storey S, Huang K. A Deep Language Model for Symptom Extraction From Clinical Text and its Application to Extract COVID-19 Symptoms From Social Media. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2022; 26:1737-1748. [PMID: 34705659 PMCID: PMC9074854 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2021.3123192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Patients experience various symptoms when they haveeither acute or chronic diseases or undergo some treatments for diseases. Symptoms are often indicators of the severity of the disease and the need for hospitalization. Symptoms are often described in free text written as clinical notes in the Electronic Health Records (EHR) and are not integrated with other clinical factors for disease prediction and healthcare outcome management. In this research, we propose a novel deep language model to extract patient-reported symptoms from clinical text. The deep language model integrates syntactic and semantic analysis for symptom extraction and identifies the actual symptoms reported by patients and conditional or negation symptoms. The deep language model can extract both complex and straightforward symptom expressions. We used a real-world clinical notes dataset to evaluate our model and demonstrated that our model achieves superior performance compared to three other state-of-the-art symptom extraction models. We extensively analyzed our model to illustrate its effectiveness by examining each component's contribution to the model. Finally, we applied our model on a COVID-19 tweets data set to extract COVID-19 symptoms. The results show that our model can identify all the symptoms suggested by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) ahead of their timeline and many rare symptoms.
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Gharagozloo M, Amrani A, Wittingstall K, Hamilton-Wright A, Gris D. Machine Learning in Modeling of Mouse Behavior. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:700253. [PMID: 34594182 PMCID: PMC8477014 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.700253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Mouse behavior is a primary outcome in evaluations of therapeutic efficacy. Exhaustive, continuous, multiparametric behavioral phenotyping is a valuable tool for understanding the pathophysiological status of mouse brain diseases. Automated home cage behavior analysis produces highly granulated data both in terms of number of features and sampling frequency. Previously, we demonstrated several ways to reduce feature dimensionality. In this study, we propose novel approaches for analyzing 33-Hz data generated by CleverSys software. We hypothesized that behavioral patterns within short time windows are reflective of physiological state, and that computer modeling of mouse behavioral routines can serve as a predictive tool in classification tasks. To remove bias due to researcher decisions, our data flow is indifferent to the quality, value, and importance of any given feature in isolation. To classify day and night behavior, as an example application, we developed a data preprocessing flow and utilized logistic regression (LG), support vector machines (SVM), random forest (RF), and one-dimensional convolutional neural networks paired with long short-term memory deep neural networks (1DConvBiLSTM). We determined that a 5-min video clip is sufficient to classify mouse behavior with high accuracy. LG, SVM, and RF performed similarly, predicting mouse behavior with 85% accuracy, and combining the three algorithms in an ensemble procedure increased accuracy to 90%. The best performance was achieved by combining the 1DConv and BiLSTM algorithms yielding 96% accuracy. Our findings demonstrate that computer modeling of the home-cage ethome can clearly define mouse physiological state. Furthermore, we showed that continuous behavioral data can be analyzed using approaches similar to natural language processing. These data provide proof of concept for future research in diagnostics of complex pathophysiological changes that are accompanied by changes in behavioral profile.
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- Marjan Gharagozloo
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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Bright RA, Rankin SK, Dowdy K, Blok SV, Bright SJ, Palmer LAM. Finding Potential Adverse Events in the Unstructured Text of Electronic Health Care Records: Development of the Shakespeare Method. JMIRX MED 2021; 2:e27017. [PMID: 37725533 PMCID: PMC10414364 DOI: 10.2196/27017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Revised: 04/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 09/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND Big data tools provide opportunities to monitor adverse events (patient harm associated with medical care) (AEs) in the unstructured text of electronic health care records (EHRs). Writers may explicitly state an apparent association between treatment and adverse outcome ("attributed") or state the simple treatment and outcome without an association ("unattributed"). Many methods for finding AEs in text rely on predefining possible AEs before searching for prespecified words and phrases or manual labeling (standardization) by investigators. We developed a method to identify possible AEs, even if unknown or unattributed, without any prespecifications or standardization of notes. Our method was inspired by word-frequency analysis methods used to uncover the true authorship of disputed works credited to William Shakespeare. We chose two use cases, "transfusion" and "time-based." Transfusion was chosen because new transfusion AE types were becoming recognized during the study data period; therefore, we anticipated an opportunity to find unattributed potential AEs (PAEs) in the notes. With the time-based case, we wanted to simulate near real-time surveillance. We chose time periods in the hope of detecting PAEs due to contaminated heparin from mid-2007 to mid-2008 that were announced in early 2008. We hypothesized that the prevalence of contaminated heparin may have been widespread enough to manifest in EHRs through symptoms related to heparin AEs, independent of clinicians' documentation of attributed AEs. OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a new method to identify attributed and unattributed PAEs using the unstructured text of EHRs. METHODS We used EHRs for adult critical care admissions at a major teaching hospital (2001-2012). For each case, we formed a group of interest and a comparison group. We concatenated the text notes for each admission into one document sorted by date, and deleted replicate sentences and lists. We identified statistically significant words in the group of interest versus the comparison group. Documents in the group of interest were filtered to those words, followed by topic modeling on the filtered documents to produce topics. For each topic, the three documents with the maximum topic scores were manually reviewed to identify PAEs. RESULTS Topics centered around medical conditions that were unique to or more common in the group of interest, including PAEs. In each use case, most PAEs were unattributed in the notes. Among the transfusion PAEs was unattributed evidence of transfusion-associated cardiac overload and transfusion-related acute lung injury. Some of the PAEs from mid-2007 to mid-2008 were increased unattributed events consistent with AEs related to heparin contamination. CONCLUSIONS The Shakespeare method could be a useful supplement to AE reporting and surveillance of structured EHR data. Future improvements should include automation of the manual review process.
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- Roselie A Bright
- US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, United States
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- US Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD, United States
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Mitra A, Rawat BPS, McManus DD, Yu H. Relation Classification for Bleeding Events From Electronic Health Records Using Deep Learning Systems: An Empirical Study. JMIR Med Inform 2021; 9:e27527. [PMID: 34255697 PMCID: PMC8285744 DOI: 10.2196/27527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Accurate detection of bleeding events from electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for identifying and characterizing different common and serious medical problems. To extract such information from EHRs, it is essential to identify the relations between bleeding events and related clinical entities (eg, bleeding anatomic sites and lab tests). With the advent of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning (DL)-based techniques, many studies have focused on their applicability for various clinical applications. However, no prior work has utilized DL to extract relations between bleeding events and relevant entities. OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to evaluate multiple DL systems on a novel EHR data set for bleeding event-related relation classification. METHODS We first expert annotated a new data set of 1046 deidentified EHR notes for bleeding events and their attributes. On this data set, we evaluated three state-of-the-art DL architectures for the bleeding event relation classification task, namely, convolutional neural network (CNN), attention-guided graph convolutional network (AGGCN), and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). We used three BERT-based models, namely, BERT pretrained on biomedical data (BioBERT), BioBERT pretrained on clinical text (Bio+Clinical BERT), and BioBERT pretrained on EHR notes (EhrBERT). RESULTS Our experiments showed that the BERT-based models significantly outperformed the CNN and AGGCN models. Specifically, BioBERT achieved a macro F1 score of 0.842, outperforming both the AGGCN (macro F1 score, 0.828) and CNN models (macro F1 score, 0.763) by 1.4% (P<.001) and 7.9% (P<.001), respectively. CONCLUSIONS In this comprehensive study, we explored and compared different DL systems to classify relations between bleeding events and other medical concepts. On our corpus, BERT-based models outperformed other DL models for identifying the relations of bleeding-related entities. In addition to pretrained contextualized word representation, BERT-based models benefited from the use of target entity representation over traditional sequence representation.
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- Avijit Mitra
- College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
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- College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
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- College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States.,Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States.,Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States.,Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, United States
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Mahendran D, McInnes BT. Extracting Adverse Drug Events from Clinical Notes. AMIA JOINT SUMMITS ON TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS. AMIA JOINT SUMMITS ON TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2021; 2021:420-429. [PMID: 34457157 PMCID: PMC8378605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Adverse drug events (ADEs) are unexpected incidents caused by the administration of a drug or medication. To identify and extract these events, we require information about not just the drug itself but attributes describing the drug (e.g., strength, dosage), the reason why the drug was initially prescribed, and any adverse reaction to the drug. This paper explores the relationship between a drug and its associated attributes using relation extraction techniques. We explore three approaches: a rule-based approach, a deep learning-based approach, and a contextualized language model-based approach. We evaluate our system on the n2c2-2018 ADE extraction dataset. Our experimental results demonstrate that the contextualized language model-based approach outperformed other models overall and obtain the state-of-the-art performance in ADE extraction with a Precision of 0.93, Recall of 0.96, and an F1 score of 0.94; however, for certain relation types, the rule-based approach obtained a higher Precision and Recall than either learning approach.
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- Darshini Mahendran
- Computer Science Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Computer Science Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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Gupta S, Belouali A, Shah NJ, Atkins MB, Madhavan S. Automated Identification of Patients With Immune-Related Adverse Events From Clinical Notes Using Word Embedding and Machine Learning. JCO Clin Cancer Inform 2021; 5:541-549. [PMID: 33989017 PMCID: PMC8462565 DOI: 10.1200/cci.20.00109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2020] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have substantially improved survival in patients with advanced malignancies, they are associated with a unique spectrum of side effects termed immune-related adverse events (irAEs). To ensure treatment safety, research efforts are needed to comprehensively detect and understand irAEs. Retrospective analysis of data from electronic health records can provide knowledge to characterize these toxicities. However, such information is not captured in a structured format within the electronic health record and requires manual chart review. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this work, we propose a natural language processing pipeline that can automatically annotate clinical notes and determine whether there is evidence that a patient developed an irAE. Seven hundred eighty-one cases were manually reviewed by clinicians and annotated for irAEs at the patient level. A dictionary of irAEs keywords was used to perform text reduction on clinical notes belonging to each patient; only sentences with relevant expressions were kept. Word embeddings were then used to generate vector representations over the reduced text, which served as input for the machine learning classifiers. The output of the models was presence or absence of any irAEs. Additional models were built to classify skin-related toxicities, endocrine toxicities, and colitis. RESULTS The model for any irAE achieved an average F1-score = 0.75 and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.85. This outperformed a basic keyword filtering approach. Although the classifier of any irAEs achieved good accuracy, individual irAE classification still has room for improvement. CONCLUSION We demonstrate that patient-level annotations combined with a machine learning approach using keywords filtering and word embeddings can achieve promising accuracy in classifying irAEs in clinical notes. This model may facilitate annotation and analysis of large irAEs data sets.
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- Samir Gupta
- Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI), Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI), Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Manhattan, New York, NY
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- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
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- Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI), Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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Christopoulou F, Tran TT, Sahu SK, Miwa M, Ananiadou S. Adverse drug events and medication relation extraction in electronic health records with ensemble deep learning methods. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2021; 27:39-46. [PMID: 31390003 PMCID: PMC6913215 DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Revised: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Objective Identification of drugs, associated medication entities, and interactions among them are crucial to prevent unwanted effects of drug therapy, known as adverse drug events. This article describes our participation to the n2c2 shared-task in extracting relations between medication-related entities in electronic health records. Materials and Methods We proposed an ensemble approach for relation extraction and classification between drugs and medication-related entities. We incorporated state-of-the-art named-entity recognition (NER) models based on bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) networks and conditional random fields (CRF) for end-to-end extraction. We additionally developed separate models for intra- and inter-sentence relation extraction and combined them using an ensemble method. The intra-sentence models rely on bidirectional long short-term memory networks and attention mechanisms and are able to capture dependencies between multiple related pairs in the same sentence. For the inter-sentence relations, we adopted a neural architecture that utilizes the Transformer network to improve performance in longer sequences. Results Our team ranked third with a micro-averaged F1 score of 94.72% and 87.65% for relation and end-to-end relation extraction, respectively (Tracks 2 and 3). Our ensemble effectively takes advantages from our proposed models. Analysis of the reported results indicated that our proposed approach is more generalizable than the top-performing system, which employs additional training data- and corpus-driven processing techniques. Conclusions We proposed a relation extraction system to identify relations between drugs and medication-related entities. The proposed approach is independent of external syntactic tools. Analysis showed that by using latent Drug-Drug interactions we were able to significantly improve the performance of non–Drug-Drug pairs in EHRs.
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- Fenia Christopoulou
- National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.,Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
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- National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.,Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
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- National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan.,Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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- National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.,Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
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Mitra A, Rawat BPS, McManus D, Kapoor A, Yu H. Bleeding Entity Recognition in Electronic Health Records: A Comprehensive Analysis of End-to-End Systems. AMIA ... ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS. AMIA SYMPOSIUM 2021; 2020:860-869. [PMID: 33936461 PMCID: PMC8075442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A bleeding event is a common adverse drug reaction amongst patients on anticoagulation and factors critically into a clinician's decision to prescribe or continue anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation. However, bleeding events are not uniformly captured in the administrative data of electronic health records (EHR). As manual review is prohibitively expensive, we investigate the effectiveness of various natural language processing (NLP) methods for automatic extraction of bleeding events. Using our expert-annotated 1,079 de-identified EHR notes, we evaluated state-of-the-art NLP models such as biLSTM-CRF with language modeling, and different BERT variants for six entity types. On our dataset, the biLSTM-CRF surpassed other models resulting in a macro F1-score of 0.75 whereas the performance difference is negligible for sentence and document-level predictions with the best macro F1-scores of 0.84 and 0.96, respectively. Our error analyses suggest that the models' incorrect predictions can be attributed to variability in entity spans, memorization, and missing negation signals.
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- Avijit Mitra
- College of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
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- College of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
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- College of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States
- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
- Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, United States
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Harrison JH, Gilbertson JR, Hanna MG, Olson NH, Seheult JN, Sorace JM, Stram MN. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Pathology. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2021; 145:1228-1254. [PMID: 33493264 DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2020-0541-cp] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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CONTEXT.— Recent developments in machine learning have stimulated intense interest in software that may augment or replace human experts. Machine learning may impact pathology practice by offering new capabilities in analysis, interpretation, and outcomes prediction using images and other data. The principles of operation and management of machine learning systems are unfamiliar to pathologists, who anticipate a need for additional education to be effective as expert users and managers of the new tools. OBJECTIVE.— To provide a background on machine learning for practicing pathologists, including an overview of algorithms, model development, and performance evaluation; to examine the current status of machine learning in pathology and consider possible roles and requirements for pathologists in local deployment and management of machine learning systems; and to highlight existing challenges and gaps in deployment methodology and regulation. DATA SOURCES.— Sources include the biomedical and engineering literature, white papers from professional organizations, government reports, electronic resources, and authors' experience in machine learning. References were chosen when possible for accessibility to practicing pathologists without specialized training in mathematics, statistics, or software development. CONCLUSIONS.— Machine learning offers an array of techniques that in recent published results show substantial promise. Data suggest that human experts working with machine learning tools outperform humans or machines separately, but the optimal form for this combination in pathology has not been established. Significant questions related to the generalizability of machine learning systems, local site verification, and performance monitoring remain to be resolved before a consensus on best practices and a regulatory environment can be established.
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- James H Harrison
- From the Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville (Harrison)
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- the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Gilbertson)
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- the Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York (Hanna)
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- the Defense Innovation Unit, Mountain View, California (Olson).,the Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland (Olson)
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- the Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, and Vitalant Specialty Labs, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Seheult)
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- the US Department of Health and Human Services, retired, Lutherville, Maryland (Sorace)
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- the Department of Forensic Medicine, New York University, and Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, New York (Stram)
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Wu S, Roberts K, Datta S, Du J, Ji Z, Si Y, Soni S, Wang Q, Wei Q, Xiang Y, Zhao B, Xu H. Deep learning in clinical natural language processing: a methodical review. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2021; 27:457-470. [PMID: 31794016 DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE This article methodically reviews the literature on deep learning (DL) for natural language processing (NLP) in the clinical domain, providing quantitative analysis to answer 3 research questions concerning methods, scope, and context of current research. MATERIALS AND METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, the Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library, and the Association for Computational Linguistics Anthology for articles using DL-based approaches to NLP problems in electronic health records. After screening 1,737 articles, we collected data on 25 variables across 212 papers. RESULTS DL in clinical NLP publications more than doubled each year, through 2018. Recurrent neural networks (60.8%) and word2vec embeddings (74.1%) were the most popular methods; the information extraction tasks of text classification, named entity recognition, and relation extraction were dominant (89.2%). However, there was a "long tail" of other methods and specific tasks. Most contributions were methodological variants or applications, but 20.8% were new methods of some kind. The earliest adopters were in the NLP community, but the medical informatics community was the most prolific. DISCUSSION Our analysis shows growing acceptance of deep learning as a baseline for NLP research, and of DL-based NLP in the medical community. A number of common associations were substantiated (eg, the preference of recurrent neural networks for sequence-labeling named entity recognition), while others were surprisingly nuanced (eg, the scarcity of French language clinical NLP with deep learning). CONCLUSION Deep learning has not yet fully penetrated clinical NLP and is growing rapidly. This review highlighted both the popular and unique trends in this active field.
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- Stephen Wu
- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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Decker BM, Hill CE, Baldassano SN, Khankhanian P. Can antiepileptic efficacy and epilepsy variables be studied from electronic health records? A review of current approaches. Seizure 2021; 85:138-144. [PMID: 33461032 DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2020.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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As automated data extraction and natural language processing (NLP) are rapidly evolving, improving healthcare delivery by harnessing large data is garnering great interest. Assessing antiepileptic drug (AED) efficacy and other epilepsy variables pertinent to healthcare delivery remain a critical barrier to improving patient care. In this systematic review, we examined automatic electronic health record (EHR) extraction methodologies pertinent to epilepsy. We also reviewed more generalizable NLP pipelines to extract other critical patient variables. Our review found varying reports of performance measures. Whereas automated data extraction pipelines are a crucial advancement, this review calls attention to standardizing NLP methodology and accuracy reporting for greater generalizability. Moreover, the use of crowdsourcing competitions to spur innovative NLP pipelines would further advance this field.
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- Barbara M Decker
- Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, United States
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- Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
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- Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
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Issa NT, Stathias V, Schürer S, Dakshanamurthy S. Machine and deep learning approaches for cancer drug repurposing. Semin Cancer Biol 2021; 68:132-142. [PMID: 31904426 PMCID: PMC7723306 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Revised: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 12/15/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Knowledge of the underpinnings of cancer initiation, progression and metastasis has increased exponentially in recent years. Advanced "omics" coupled with machine learning and artificial intelligence (deep learning) methods have helped elucidate targets and pathways critical to those processes that may be amenable to pharmacologic modulation. However, the current anti-cancer therapeutic armamentarium continues to lag behind. As the cost of developing a new drug remains prohibitively expensive, repurposing of existing approved and investigational drugs is sought after given known safety profiles and reduction in the cost barrier. Notably, successes in oncologic drug repurposing have been infrequent. Computational in-silico strategies have been developed to aid in modeling biological processes to find new disease-relevant targets and discovering novel drug-target and drug-phenotype associations. Machine and deep learning methods have especially enabled leaps in those successes. This review will discuss these methods as they pertain to cancer biology as well as immunomodulation for drug repurposing opportunities in oncologic diseases.
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- Naiem T Issa
- Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
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Ujiie S, Yada S, Wakamiya S, Aramaki E. Identification of Adverse Drug Event-Related Japanese Articles: Natural Language Processing Analysis. JMIR Med Inform 2020; 8:e22661. [PMID: 33245290 PMCID: PMC7732716 DOI: 10.2196/22661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background Medical articles covering adverse drug events (ADEs) are systematically reported by pharmaceutical companies for drug safety information purposes. Although policies governing reporting to regulatory bodies vary among countries and regions, all medical article reporting may be categorized as precision or recall based. Recall-based reporting, which is implemented in Japan, requires the reporting of any possible ADE. Therefore, recall-based reporting can introduce numerous false negatives or substantial amounts of noise, a problem that is difficult to address using limited manual labor. Objective Our aim was to develop an automated system that could identify ADE-related medical articles, support recall-based reporting, and alleviate manual labor in Japanese pharmaceutical companies. Methods Using medical articles as input, our system based on natural language processing applies document-level classification to extract articles containing ADEs (replacing manual labor in the first screening) and sentence-level classification to extract sentences within those articles that imply ADEs (thus supporting experts in the second screening). We used 509 Japanese medical articles annotated by a medical engineer to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. Results Document-level classification yielded an F1 of 0.903. Sentence-level classification yielded an F1 of 0.413. These were averages of fivefold cross-validations. Conclusions A simple automated system may alleviate the manual labor involved in screening drug safety–related medical articles in pharmaceutical companies. After improving the accuracy of the sentence-level classification by considering a wider context, we intend to apply this system toward real-world postmarketing surveillance.
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- Shogo Ujiie
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
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- Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
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- Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
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OBJECTIVES We survey recent developments in medical Information Extraction (IE) as reported in the literature from the past three years. Our focus is on the fundamental methodological paradigm shift from standard Machine Learning (ML) techniques to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We describe applications of this new paradigm concentrating on two basic IE tasks, named entity recognition and relation extraction, for two selected semantic classes-diseases and drugs (or medications)-and relations between them. METHODS For the time period from 2017 to early 2020, we searched for relevant publications from three major scientific communities: medicine and medical informatics, natural language processing, as well as neural networks and artificial intelligence. RESULTS In the past decade, the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a profound methodological shift from symbolic to distributed representations based on the paradigm of Deep Learning (DL). Meanwhile, this trend is, although with some delay, also reflected in the medical NLP community. In the reporting period, overwhelming experimental evidence has been gathered, as illustrated in this survey for medical IE, that DL-based approaches outperform non-DL ones by often large margins. Still, small-sized and access-limited corpora create intrinsic problems for data-greedy DL as do special linguistic phenomena of medical sublanguages that have to be overcome by adaptive learning strategies. CONCLUSIONS The paradigm shift from (feature-engineered) ML to DNNs changes the fundamental methodological rules of the game for medical NLP. This change is by no means restricted to medical IE but should also deeply influence other areas of medical informatics, either NLP- or non-NLP-based.
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- Udo Hahn
- Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Dandala B, Joopudi V, Tsou CH, Liang JJ, Suryanarayanan P. Extraction of Information Related to Drug Safety Surveillance From Electronic Health Record Notes: Joint Modeling of Entities and Relations Using Knowledge-Aware Neural Attentive Models. JMIR Med Inform 2020; 8:e18417. [PMID: 32459650 PMCID: PMC7382020 DOI: 10.2196/18417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND An adverse drug event (ADE) is commonly defined as "an injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug." Providing information related to ADEs and alerting caregivers at the point of care can reduce the risk of prescription and diagnostic errors and improve health outcomes. ADEs captured in structured data in electronic health records (EHRs) as either coded problems or allergies are often incomplete, leading to underreporting. Therefore, it is important to develop capabilities to process unstructured EHR data in the form of clinical notes, which contain a richer documentation of a patient's ADE. Several natural language processing (NLP) systems have been proposed to automatically extract information related to ADEs. However, the results from these systems showed that significant improvement is still required for the automatic extraction of ADEs from clinical notes. OBJECTIVE This study aims to improve the automatic extraction of ADEs and related information such as drugs, their attributes, and reason for administration from the clinical notes of patients. METHODS This research was conducted using discharge summaries from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III) database obtained through the 2018 National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2) annotated with drugs, drug attributes (ie, strength, form, frequency, route, dosage, duration), ADEs, reasons, and relations between drugs and other entities. We developed a deep learning-based system for extracting these drug-centric concepts and relations simultaneously using a joint method enhanced with contextualized embeddings, a position-attention mechanism, and knowledge representations. The joint method generated different sentence representations for each drug, which were then used to extract related concepts and relations simultaneously. Contextualized representations trained on the MIMIC-III database were used to capture context-sensitive meanings of words. The position-attention mechanism amplified the benefits of the joint method by generating sentence representations that capture long-distance relations. Knowledge representations were obtained from graph embeddings created using the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System database to improve relation extraction, especially when contextual clues were insufficient. RESULTS Our system achieved new state-of-the-art results on the n2c2 data set, with significant improvements in recognizing crucial drug-reason (F1=0.650 versus F1=0.579) and drug-ADE (F1=0.490 versus F1=0.476) relations. CONCLUSIONS This study presents a system for extracting drug-centric concepts and relations that outperformed current state-of-the-art results and shows that contextualized embeddings, position-attention mechanisms, and knowledge graph embeddings effectively improve deep learning-based concepts and relation extraction. This study demonstrates the potential for deep learning-based methods to help extract real-world evidence from unstructured patient data for drug safety surveillance.
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Jin Y, Li F, Yu H. BENTO: A Visual Platform for Building Clinical NLP Pipelines Based on CodaLab. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS. MEETING 2020; 2020:95-100. [PMID: 33223604 PMCID: PMC7679080 DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-demos.13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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CodaLab is an open-source web-based platform for collaborative computational research. Although CodaLab has gained popularity in the research community, its interface has limited support for creating reusable tools that can be easily applied to new datasets and composed into pipelines. In clinical domain, natural language processing (NLP) on medical notes generally involves multiple steps, like tokenization, named entity recognition, etc. Since these steps require different tools which are usually scattered in different publications, it is not easy for researchers to use them to process their own datasets. In this paper, we present BENTO, a workflow management platform with a graphic user interface (GUI) that is built on top of CodaLab, to facilitate the process of building clinical NLP pipelines. BENTO comes with a number of clinical NLP tools that have been pre-trained using medical notes and expert annotations and can be readily used for various clinical NLP tasks. It also allows researchers and developers to create their custom tools (e.g., pre-trained NLP models) and use them in a controlled and reproducible way. In addition, the GUI interface enables researchers with limited computer background to compose tools into NLP pipelines and then apply the pipelines on their own datasets in a "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) way. Although BENTO is designed for clinical NLP applications, the underlying architecture is flexible to be tailored to any other domains.
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- Yonghao Jin
- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA
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Wang J, Deng H, Liu B, Hu A, Liang J, Fan L, Zheng X, Wang T, Lei J. Systematic Evaluation of Research Progress on Natural Language Processing in Medicine Over the Past 20 Years: Bibliometric Study on PubMed. J Med Internet Res 2020; 22:e16816. [PMID: 32012074 PMCID: PMC7005695 DOI: 10.2196/16816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Revised: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Natural language processing (NLP) is an important traditional field in computer science, but its application in medical research has faced many challenges. With the extensive digitalization of medical information globally and increasing importance of understanding and mining big data in the medical field, NLP is becoming more crucial. OBJECTIVE The goal of the research was to perform a systematic review on the use of NLP in medical research with the aim of understanding the global progress on NLP research outcomes, content, methods, and study groups involved. METHODS A systematic review was conducted using the PubMed database as a search platform. All published studies on the application of NLP in medicine (except biomedicine) during the 20 years between 1999 and 2018 were retrieved. The data obtained from these published studies were cleaned and structured. Excel (Microsoft Corp) and VOSviewer (Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman) were used to perform bibliometric analysis of publication trends, author orders, countries, institutions, collaboration relationships, research hot spots, diseases studied, and research methods. RESULTS A total of 3498 articles were obtained during initial screening, and 2336 articles were found to meet the study criteria after manual screening. The number of publications increased every year, with a significant growth after 2012 (number of publications ranged from 148 to a maximum of 302 annually). The United States has occupied the leading position since the inception of the field, with the largest number of articles published. The United States contributed to 63.01% (1472/2336) of all publications, followed by France (5.44%, 127/2336) and the United Kingdom (3.51%, 82/2336). The author with the largest number of articles published was Hongfang Liu (70), while Stéphane Meystre (17) and Hua Xu (33) published the largest number of articles as the first and corresponding authors. Among the first author's affiliation institution, Columbia University published the largest number of articles, accounting for 4.54% (106/2336) of the total. Specifically, approximately one-fifth (17.68%, 413/2336) of the articles involved research on specific diseases, and the subject areas primarily focused on mental illness (16.46%, 68/413), breast cancer (5.81%, 24/413), and pneumonia (4.12%, 17/413). CONCLUSIONS NLP is in a period of robust development in the medical field, with an average of approximately 100 publications annually. Electronic medical records were the most used research materials, but social media such as Twitter have become important research materials since 2015. Cancer (24.94%, 103/413) was the most common subject area in NLP-assisted medical research on diseases, with breast cancers (23.30%, 24/103) and lung cancers (14.56%, 15/103) accounting for the highest proportions of studies. Columbia University and the talents trained therein were the most active and prolific research forces on NLP in the medical field.
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- Jing Wang
- School of Medical Informatics and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- School of Medical Informatics and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- School of Medical Informatics and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- School of Medical Informatics and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- IT Center, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Center for Medical Informatics, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Jilin University, Jilin, China
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- School of Medical Informatics and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.,Center for Medical Informatics, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Technology, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Ju M, Nguyen NTH, Miwa M, Ananiadou S. An ensemble of neural models for nested adverse drug events and medication extraction with subwords. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2020; 27:22-30. [PMID: 31197355 PMCID: PMC6913208 DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Revised: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE This article describes an ensembling system to automatically extract adverse drug events and drug related entities from clinical narratives, which was developed for the 2018 n2c2 Shared Task Track 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS We designed a neural model to tackle both nested (entities embedded in other entities) and polysemous entities (entities annotated with multiple semantic types) based on MIMIC III discharge summaries. To better represent rare and unknown words in entities, we further tokenized the MIMIC III data set by splitting the words into finer-grained subwords. We finally combined all the models to boost the performance. Additionally, we implemented a featured-based conditional random field model and created an ensemble to combine its predictions with those of the neural model. RESULTS Our method achieved 92.78% lenient micro F1-score, with 95.99% lenient precision, and 89.79% lenient recall, respectively. Experimental results showed that combining the predictions of either multiple models, or of a single model with different settings can improve performance. DISCUSSION Analysis of the development set showed that our neural models can detect more informative text regions than feature-based conditional random field models. Furthermore, most entity types significantly benefit from subword representation, which also allows us to extract sparse entities, especially nested entities. CONCLUSION The overall results have demonstrated that the ensemble method can accurately recognize entities, including nested and polysemous entities. Additionally, our method can recognize sparse entities by reconsidering the clinical narratives at a finer-grained subword level, rather than at the word level.
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- Meizhi Ju
- National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
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- National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
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- Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
- Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
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- National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
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Rawat BPS, Li F, Yu H. Naranjo Question Answering using End-to-End Multi-task Learning Model. KDD : PROCEEDINGS. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY & DATA MINING 2019; 2019:2547-2555. [PMID: 31799022 DOI: 10.1145/3292500.3330770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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In the clinical domain, it is important to understand whether an adverse drug reaction (ADR) is caused by a particular medication. Clinical judgement studies help judge the causal relation between a medication and its ADRs. In this study, we present the first attempt to automatically infer the causality between a drug and an ADR from electronic health records (EHRs) by answering the Naranjo questionnaire, the validated clinical question answering set used by domain experts for ADR causality assessment. Using physicians' annotation as the gold standard, our proposed joint model, which uses multi-task learning to predict the answers of a subset of the Naranjo questionnaire, significantly outperforms the baseline pipeline model with a good margin, achieving a macro-weighted f-score between 0.3652 - 0.5271 and micro-weighted f-score between 0.9523 - 0.9918.
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- UMass Lowell, Lowell, USA
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Basile AO, Yahi A, Tatonetti NP. Artificial Intelligence for Drug Toxicity and Safety. Trends Pharmacol Sci 2019; 40:624-635. [PMID: 31383376 PMCID: PMC6710127 DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2019.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Interventional pharmacology is one of medicine's most potent weapons against disease. These drugs, however, can result in damaging side effects and must be closely monitored. Pharmacovigilance is the field of science that monitors, detects, and prevents adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Safety efforts begin during the development process, using in vivo and in vitro studies, continue through clinical trials, and extend to postmarketing surveillance of ADRs in real-world populations. Future toxicity and safety challenges, including increased polypharmacy and patient diversity, stress the limits of these traditional tools. Massive amounts of newly available data present an opportunity for using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to improve drug safety science. Here, we explore recent advances as applied to preclinical drug safety and postmarketing surveillance with a specific focus on machine and deep learning (DL) approaches.
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- Anna O Basile
- Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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Bloomrosen M, Berner ES. Findings from the 2019 International Medical Informatics Association Yearbook Section on Health Information Management. Yearb Med Inform 2019; 28:65-68. [PMID: 31419817 PMCID: PMC6697497 DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1677941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2018 in the field of Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Informatics. METHODS A systematic review of the literature was performed, with the help of a medical librarian, by the two editors of the HIM section of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook. In order to include papers that would address the special theme of the 2019 Yearbook on artificial intelligence (AI) as well as HIM, we searched bibliographic databases for HIM-related papers with an AI focus using both Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) descriptors and keywords in titles and abstracts. A shortlist of 15 candidate best papers was first selected by section editors before being peer-reviewed by independent external reviewers. RESULTS While there were a significant number of manuscripts that addressed issues relevant to HIM, there were virtually none with MeSH headings indicating an HIM focus. Manuscripts that were considered related to the HIM field in terms of the practice of health information management as well as the profession included those that examined using machine learning and other AI approaches to identify protected health information in clinical text to aid with de-identification, automated coding approaches to translate free-text into standardized codes, and natural language processing approaches to extract clinical data to assist with populating cancer and other registries. CONCLUSIONS The papers discussed in the HIM section reflect the special theme of the use of AI in healthcare on issues particularly relevant to the field of HIM. This synopsis discusses these papers and recommends that HIM practitioners be more involved in research and that researchers in AI and related areas recognize the applicability and relevance of their work to the field of HIM.
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- Graduate Programs in Health Informatics, Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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Tobore I, Li J, Yuhang L, Al-Handarish Y, Kandwal A, Nie Z, Wang L. Deep Learning Intervention for Health Care Challenges: Some Biomedical Domain Considerations. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019; 7:e11966. [PMID: 31376272 PMCID: PMC6696854 DOI: 10.2196/11966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Revised: 04/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The use of deep learning (DL) for the analysis and diagnosis of biomedical and health care problems has received unprecedented attention in the last decade. The technique has recorded a number of achievements for unearthing meaningful features and accomplishing tasks that were hitherto difficult to solve by other methods and human experts. Currently, biological and medical devices, treatment, and applications are capable of generating large volumes of data in the form of images, sounds, text, graphs, and signals creating the concept of big data. The innovation of DL is a developing trend in the wake of big data for data representation and analysis. DL is a type of machine learning algorithm that has deeper (or more) hidden layers of similar function cascaded into the network and has the capability to make meaning from medical big data. Current transformation drivers to achieve personalized health care delivery will be possible with the use of mobile health (mHealth). DL can provide the analysis for the deluge of data generated from mHealth apps. This paper reviews the fundamentals of DL methods and presents a general view of the trends in DL by capturing literature from PubMed and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers database publications that implement different variants of DL. We highlight the implementation of DL in health care, which we categorize into biological system, electronic health record, medical image, and physiological signals. In addition, we discuss some inherent challenges of DL affecting biomedical and health domain, as well as prospective research directions that focus on improving health management by promoting the application of physiological signals and modern internet technology.
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- Igbe Tobore
- Center for Medical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.,Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Center for Medical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Center for Medical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Center for Medical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Center for Medical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Center for Medical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Center for Medical Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgical Devices, Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Grabar N, Grouin C. A Year of Papers Using Biomedical Texts: Findings from the Section on Natural Language Processing of the IMIA Yearbook. Yearb Med Inform 2019; 28:218-222. [PMID: 31419835 PMCID: PMC6697498 DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1677937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES To analyze the content of publications within the medical Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain in 2018. METHODS Automatic and manual pre-selection of publications to be reviewed, and selection of the best NLP papers of the year. Analysis of the important issues. RESULTS Two best papers have been selected this year. One dedicated to the generation of multi- documents summaries and another dedicated to the generation of imaging reports. We also proposed an analysis of the content of main research trends of NLP publications in 2018. CONCLUSIONS The year 2018 is very rich with regard to NLP issues and topics addressed. It shows the will of researchers to go towards robust and reproducible results. Researchers also prove to be creative for original issues and approaches.
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- Natalia Grabar
- LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- STL, CNRS, Université de Lille, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
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- LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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Chen J, Lalor J, Liu W, Druhl E, Granillo E, Vimalananda VG, Yu H. Detecting Hypoglycemia Incidents Reported in Patients' Secure Messages: Using Cost-Sensitive Learning and Oversampling to Reduce Data Imbalance. J Med Internet Res 2019; 21:e11990. [PMID: 30855231 PMCID: PMC6431826 DOI: 10.2196/11990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 01/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Improper dosing of medications such as insulin can cause hypoglycemic episodes, which may lead to severe morbidity or even death. Although secure messaging was designed for exchanging nonurgent messages, patients sometimes report hypoglycemia events through secure messaging. Detecting these patient-reported adverse events may help alert clinical teams and enable early corrective actions to improve patient safety. OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a natural language processing system, called HypoDetect (Hypoglycemia Detector), to automatically identify hypoglycemia incidents reported in patients' secure messages. METHODS An expert in public health annotated 3000 secure message threads between patients with diabetes and US Department of Veterans Affairs clinical teams as containing patient-reported hypoglycemia incidents or not. A physician independently annotated 100 threads randomly selected from this dataset to determine interannotator agreement. We used this dataset to develop and evaluate HypoDetect. HypoDetect incorporates 3 machine learning algorithms widely used for text classification: linear support vector machines, random forest, and logistic regression. We explored different learning features, including new knowledge-driven features. Because only 114 (3.80%) messages were annotated as positive, we investigated cost-sensitive learning and oversampling methods to mitigate the challenge of imbalanced data. RESULTS The interannotator agreement was Cohen kappa=.976. Using cross-validation, logistic regression with cost-sensitive learning achieved the best performance (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve=0.954, sensitivity=0.693, specificity 0.974, F1 score=0.590). Cost-sensitive learning and the ensembled synthetic minority oversampling technique improved the sensitivity of the baseline systems substantially (by 0.123 to 0.728 absolute gains). Our results show that a variety of features contributed to the best performance of HypoDetect. CONCLUSIONS Despite the challenge of data imbalance, HypoDetect achieved promising results for the task of detecting hypoglycemia incidents from secure messages. The system has a great potential to facilitate early detection and treatment of hypoglycemia.
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- Jinying Chen
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
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- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
- College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
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- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States
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- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
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- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
- School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
- College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States
- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
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Chen T, Wu M, Li H. A general approach for improving deep learning-based medical relation extraction using a pre-trained model and fine-tuning. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION 2019; 2019:5645655. [PMID: 31800044 PMCID: PMC6892305 DOI: 10.1093/database/baz116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The automatic extraction of meaningful relations from biomedical literature or clinical records is crucial in various biomedical applications. Most of the current deep learning approaches for medical relation extraction require large-scale training data to prevent overfitting of the training model. We propose using a pre-trained model and a fine-tuning technique to improve these approaches without additional time-consuming human labeling. Firstly, we show the architecture of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), an approach for pre-training a model on large-scale unstructured text. We then combine BERT with a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1d-CNN) to fine-tune the pre-trained model for relation extraction. Extensive experiments on three datasets, namely the BioCreative V chemical disease relation corpus, traditional Chinese medicine literature corpus and i2b2 2012 temporal relation challenge corpus, show that the proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art results (giving a relative improvement of 22.2, 7.77, and 38.5% in F1 score, respectively, compared with a traditional 1d-CNN classifier). The source code is available at https://github.com/chentao1999/MedicalRelationExtraction.
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- Tao Chen
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, No.22, Dongcheng village, Pengjiang district, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, 529020, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, No.22, Dongcheng village, Pengjiang district, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, 529020, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, No.22, Dongcheng village, Pengjiang district, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, 529020, China
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