7/10/2023 0 Comments Semeval 2015 task324–26 Given that ML approaches have been pushing forward Until recently, ML approaches to medical concept normalization for clinical records haveīeen limited, with rare exceptions, 23 and dictionary lookup almost universally selected as the best (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) 21 and RxNorm. Normalized to the corresponding concepts (CUIs) in a subset of the UMLS comprising SNOMED CT The challenge used the MCN corpus 19 created by the organizers using discharge summariesįrom the 2010 i2b2/VA clinical concept data, 20 in which all mentions of problems, treatments, and tests were This article describes the shared task challenge on normalization of medical concepts inĬlinical records organized by UMass Lowell as a community-led spin-off of the National NLPĬlinical Challenges (n2c2). Such systems perform namedĮntity recognition to identify mentions of interest, followed by MCN to normalize the Information retrieval (IR) and information extraction systems. Text to generalize better across different patient records. The goal of such normalization is to enable predictive models that rely on clinical The task of medical concept normalization (MCN) attempts to solve this problem moreĭirectly by linking or associating all mentions of medical concepts in clinical narrative toĪ standardized vocabulary of concepts using manually constructed in-domain knowledge Insufficient access to the necessary quantities of clinical text. Methods by combining publicly available de-identified clinical narratives with otherīiomedical text 17, 18 continue to suffer from Text, such as the popular BERT model, 16 which learns contextualized term-level embedding, are often notĪpplicable in the clinical domain, as clinical records are Health Insurance Portability andĪccountability Act–regulated and cannot be easily shared. Overcome this obstacle, learning generalizable representations from large quantities of Modernĭata-hungry natural language processing methods that use deep learning techniques to Records, which ultimately prevents their deployment and integration into practice. (UMLS CUI C0005528) or to an activity ( C0206243).Ī common consequence of this is that models fail to generalize across different patient Identical surface expressions are commonly used to refer to completely different concepts.įor example, “ transport” may be used to refer to a cell function At the same time, ambiguity poses additional problems, as Indeed, in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), 15 they all map to the same concept unique identifier For example, “ myocardial infarction,” “ heartĪttack,” and “ MI” may refer to the same concept 11–14 However, the use of such models that utilize clinical narrativeįeatures is often hampered by high variability of linguistic expressions for the sameĬoncept. Information uniquely suited to improve predictive modeling for clinical research. It is widely acknowledged that clinical narrative from provider notes often contain Summaries, nursing notes, pathology reports, etc. Unstructured data, in which the latter includes narrative provider notes (discharge Predictive models developed for such tasks often use a combination of structured and Retrospective research has had a transformative effect on a number of clinical applications,įrom disease phenotyping and mapping disease trajectories, to identifying high-risk patientsĪnd predictive modeling of patient outcomes, and informing practice. Second, a considerable fraction of questions and answers are long and contain several dozen to several hundred words, resulting in difficulty of encoding questions and answers to be understood by computers. We have developed neural network approaches and demonstrated their effectiveness on the cQA tasks for ranking a list of questions or answers for a given question.Secondary use of electronic health records for observational medical research has seen aĭramatic rise in recent years, fueled by the improvement of predictive modeling techniques From the semantic perspective, there are two major factors that make these tasks challenging: First, cQA forums contain open-domain and non-factoid questions and answers, resulting in high variance question and answer quality. The proliferation of questions and answers in such platforms motivates the ability to automatically find relevant questions to a new question, Question Retrieval, and relevant answers among existing answers, Answer Selection. In particular, Community Question Answering (cQA) forums, such as Quora and Stackoverflow contain millions of open-ended questions and answers. Open-ended language communications introduce an enormous challenge in automatic understanding and modeling of human language.
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