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ArticleStudies in health technology and informatics2024

Detection of Medication Mentions and Medication Change Events in Clinical Notes Using Transformer-Based Models.

Yuting Guo, Yao Ge, Abeed Sarker

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Article in Studies in health technology and informatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. AI-Based Automation for Medication Reconciliation: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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Yuting GuoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, United States.
Yao GeDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, United States.
Abeed SarkerDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, United States.

Funding

Mining Social Media Big Data for Toxicovigilance: Studying Substance Use via Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning MethodsR01DA057599 · NIDA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Abeed H Sarker · 2022 to 2026
$2.2M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA057599
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we address the related tasks of medication extraction, event classification, and context classification from clinical text. The data for the tasks were obtained from the National Natural Language Processing (NLP) Clinical Challenges (n2c2) Track 1. We developed a named entity recognition (NER) model based on BioClinicalBERT and applied a dictionary-based fuzzy matching mechanism to identify the medication mentions in clinical notes. We developed a unified model architecture for event classification and context classification. The model used two pre-trained models-BioClinicalBERT and RoBERTa to predict the class, separately. Additionally, we applied an ensemble mechanism to combine the predictions of BioClinicalBERT and RoBERTa. For event classification, our best model achieved 0.926 micro-averaged F1-score, 5% higher than the baseline model. The shared task released the data in different stages during the evaluation phase. Our system consistently ranked among the top 10 for Releases 1 and 2.

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Electric Power SuppliesNatural Language ProcessingRecognition, PsychologyDeep learningnamed entity recognitiontext classification

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PMID38269896
PMCPMC12037270

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