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ArticleViruses2022

Clinical Application of Detecting COVID-19 Risks: A Natural Language Processing Approach.

Syed Raza Bashir, Shaina Raza, Veysel Kocaman, Urooj Qamar

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Article in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Syed Raza BashirDepartment of Computer Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8123-919X
Shaina RazaDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1061-5845
Veysel KocamanData Science, John Snow Labs Inc., Lewes, DE 19958, USA.
Urooj QamarInstitute of Business & Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical application of detecting COVID-19 factors is a challenging task. The existing named entity recognition models are usually trained on a limited set of named entities. Besides clinical, the non-clinical factors, such as social determinant of health (SDoH), are also important to study the infectious disease. In this paper, we propose a generalizable machine learning approach that improves on previous efforts by recognizing a large number of clinical risk factors and SDoH. The novelty of the proposed method lies in the subtle combination of a number of deep neural networks, including the BiLSTM-CNN-CRF method and a transformer-based embedding layer. Experimental results on a cohort of COVID-19 data prepared from PubMed articles show the superiority of the proposed approach. When compared to other methods, the proposed approach achieves a performance gain of about 1-5% in terms of macro- and micro-average F1 scores. Clinical practitioners and researchers can use this approach to obtain accurate information regarding clinical risks and SDoH factors, and use this pipeline as a tool to end the pandemic or to prepare for future pandemics.

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COVID-19Natural Language ProcessingElectronic Health RecordsHumansMachine LearningNeural Networks, ComputerclinicalCOVID-19de-identificationnamed entitiesnon-clinicalpipelinesocial determinants of health

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PMID36560764
PMCPMC9781729

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