no code implementations • NAACL (NLPMC) 2021 • Wen-wai Yim, Meliha Yetisgen
Medical conversations from patient visits are routinely summarized into clinical notes for documentation of clinical care.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2025 • Haritha Gangavarapu, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Kevin Lybarger, Meliha Yetisgen, Özlem Uzuner
A vast amount of medical knowledge is available for public use through online health forums, and question-answering platforms on social media.
1 code implementation • 26 Dec 2024 • Asma Ben Abacha, Wen-wai Yim, Yujuan Fu, Zhaoyi Sun, Meliha Yetisgen, Fei Xia, Thomas Lin
We also found that although recent LLMs have a good performance in error detection and correction, they are still outperformed by medical doctors in these tasks.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2024 • Yujuan Velvin Fu, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Namu Park, Kevin Lybarger, Fei Xia, Ozlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
Our experiments show that our BioMistral-NLU outperforms the original BioMistral, as well as the proprietary LLMs - ChatGPT and GPT-4.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2024 • Yujuan Fu, Ozlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen, Fei Xia
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated great performance across various benchmarks, showing potential as general-purpose task solvers.
1 code implementation • 5 Sep 2024 • Yujuan Fu, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Ahmad Halwani, Bridget T. McInnes, Fei Xia, Kevin Lybarger, Meliha Yetisgen, Özlem Uzuner
Multiple fine-tuned transformer models achieved performance comparable to IAA for several extraction tasks.
1 code implementation • 31 Mar 2024 • Yujuan Fu, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Nicholas J Dobbins, Namu Park, Michael Leu, Abby R. Rosenberg, Kevin Lybarger, Fei Xia, Ozlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
In this work, we present a novel annotated corpus, the Pediatric Social History Annotation Corpus (PedSHAC), and evaluate the automatic extraction of detailed SDoH representations using fine-tuned and in-context learning methods with Large Language Models (LLMs).
1 code implementation • 27 Mar 2024 • Namu Park, Kevin Lybarger, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Spencer Lewis, Aashka Damani, Ozlem Uzuner, Martin Gunn, Meliha Yetisgen
Here, we introduce the Corpus of Annotated Medical Imaging Reports (CAMIR), which includes 609 annotated radiology reports from three imaging modality types: Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography.
1 code implementation • 3 Jan 2024 • Philip Chung, Christine T Fong, Andrew M Walters, Nima Aghaeepour, Meliha Yetisgen, Vikas N O'Reilly-Shah
We achieve F1 scores of 0. 50 for ASA Physical Status Classification, 0. 81 for ICU admission, and 0. 86 for hospital mortality.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2023 • Sitong Zhou, Meliha Yetisgen, Mari Ostendorf
This paper explores methods for extracting information from radiology reports that generalize across exam modalities to reduce requirements for annotated data.
no code implementations • 12 Jun 2023 • Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Yujuan Fu, Bin Han, Kevin Lybarger, Nicholas J Dobbins, Özlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
Social determinants of health (SDOH) documented in the electronic health record through unstructured text are increasingly being studied to understand how SDOH impacts patient health outcomes.
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2023 • Wen-wai Yim, Yujuan Fu, Asma Ben Abacha, Neal Snider, Thomas Lin, Meliha Yetisgen
Here we present the Ambient Clinical Intelligence Benchmark (ACI-BENCH) corpus, the largest dataset to date tackling the problem of AI-assisted note generation from visit dialogue.
no code implementations • 13 Apr 2023 • Nicholas J Dobbins, Bin Han, Weipeng Zhou, Kristine Lan, H. Nina Kim, Robert Harrington, Ozlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
Conclusions: Our work contributes a state-of-the-art data model-agnostic query generation system capable of conditional reasoning using a knowledge base.
1 code implementation • 13 Jan 2023 • Kevin Lybarger, Meliha Yetisgen, Özlem Uzuner
Results: A total of 15 teams participated, and the top teams utilized pretrained deep learning LM.
1 code implementation • 14 Dec 2022 • Kevin Lybarger, Nicholas J Dobbins, Ritche Long, Angad Singh, Patrick Wedgeworth, Ozlem Ozuner, Meliha Yetisgen
In an EHR case study, we applied the SDOH extractor to a large clinical data set with 225, 089 patients and 430, 406 notes with social history sections and compared the extracted SDOH information with existing structured data.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2022 • Sitong Zhou, Kevin Lybarger, Meliha Yetisgen, Mari Ostendorf
To reduce reliance on domain-specific features, we propose a domain generalization method that dynamically masks frequent symptoms words in the source domain.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2022 • Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Kevin Lybarger, Yaya Liu, Diwakar Mahajan, Jennifer J. Liang, Ching-Huei Tsou, Meliha Yetisgen, Özlem Uzuner
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.
1 code implementation • 27 Jul 2022 • Nicholas J Dobbins, Tony Mullen, Ozlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
In order to identify potential participants at scale, these criteria must first be translated into queries on clinical databases, which can be labor-intensive and error-prone.
1 code implementation • 27 Dec 2021 • Wilson Lau, Kevin Lybarger, Martin L. Gunn, Meliha Yetisgen
In this paper, we present a new corpus of radiology reports annotated with clinical findings.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2021 • Kevin Lybarger, Aashka Damani, Martin Gunn, Ozlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
Medical imaging reports distill the findings and observations of radiologists, creating an unstructured textual representation of unstructured medical images.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2021 • Kevin Lybarger, Linzee Mabrey, Matthew Thau, Pavan K. Bhatraju, Mark Wurfel, Meliha Yetisgen
We explore the automatic identification of ARDS indicators and confounding factors in free-text chest radiograph reports.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Paul Barry, Sam Henry, Meliha Yetisgen, Bridget McInnes, Ozlem Uzuner
We hypothesize that explicit integration of contextual information into an Multi-task Learning framework would emphasize the significance of context for boosting performance in jointly learning Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE).
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Nicholas Dobbins, David Wayne, Kahyun Lee, Özlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
Free-text clinical notes detail all aspects of patient care and have great potential to facilitate quality improvement and assurance initiatives as well as advance clinical research.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Kahyun Lee, Nicholas J. Dobbins, Bridget McInnes, Meliha Yetisgen, Ozlem Uzuner
We measured: transferability from external sources; transferability across note types; the contribution of external source data when in-domain training data are available; and transferability across institutions.
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Kevin Lybarger, Mari Ostendorf, Matthew Thompson, Meliha Yetisgen
In a secondary use application, we explored the prediction of COVID-19 test results using structured patient data (e. g. vital signs and laboratory results) and automatically extracted symptom information.
1 code implementation • 1 Sep 2020 • Wilson Lau, Laura Aaltonen, Martin Gunn, Meliha Yetisgen
Selecting radiology examination protocol is a repetitive, and time-consuming process.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Wen-wai Yim, Meliha Yetisgen, Jenny Huang, Micah Grossman
Despite advances in natural language processing, automating clinical note generation from a clinic visit conversation is a largely unexplored area of research.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2020 • Kevin Lybarger, Mari Ostendorf, Meliha Yetisgen
The Social History Annotation Corpus (SHAC) includes 4, 480 social history sections with detailed annotation for 12 SDOH characterizing the status, extent, and temporal information of 18K distinct events.
1 code implementation • 14 May 2019 • Wilson Lau, Thomas H Payne, Ozlem Uzuner, Meliha Yetisgen
Communication of follow-up recommendations when abnormalities are identified on imaging studies is prone to error.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Adyasha Maharana, Meliha Yetisgen
Event detection from clinical notes has been traditionally solved with rule based and statistical natural language processing (NLP) approaches that require extensive domain knowledge and feature engineering.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Prescott Klassen, Fei Xia, Meliha Yetisgen
Early detection and treatment of diseases that onset after a patient is admitted to a hospital, such as pneumonia, is critical to improving and reducing costs in healthcare.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Prescott Klassen, Fei Xia, V, Lucy erwende, Meliha Yetisgen
Early detection and treatment of diseases that onset after a patient is admitted to a hospital, such as pneumonia, is critical to improving and reducing costs in healthcare.