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ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2024

Text mining for disease surveillance in veterinary clinical data: part two, training computers to identify features in clinical text.

Heather Davies, Goran Nenadic, Ghada Alfattni, Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro, Noura Al Moubayed, Sean Farrell, Alan D Radford, P-J M Noble

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Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Heather DaviesInstitute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Goran NenadicDepartment of Computer Science, Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ghada AlfattniDepartment of Computer Science, Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Mercedes Arguello CasteleiroDepartment of Computer Science, Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Noura Al MoubayedDepartment of Computer Science, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
Sean FarrellDepartment of Computer Science, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
Alan D RadfordInstitute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
P-J M NobleInstitute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

In part two of this mini-series, we evaluate the range of machine-learning tools now available for application to veterinary clinical text-mining. These tools will be vital to automate extraction of information from large datasets of veterinary clinical narratives curated by projects such as the Small Animal Veterinary Surveillance Network (SAVSNET) and VetCompass, where volumes of millions of records preclude reading records and the complexities of clinical notes limit usefulness of more "traditional" text-mining approaches. We discuss the application of various machine learning techniques ranging from simple models for identifying words and phrases with similar meanings to expand lexicons for keyword searching, to the use of more complex language models. Specifically, we describe the use of language models for record annotation, unsupervised approaches for identifying topics within large datasets, and discuss more recent developments in the area of generative models (such as ChatGPT). As these models become increasingly complex it is pertinent that researchers and clinicians work together to ensure that the outputs of these models are explainable in order to instill confidence in any conclusions drawn from them.

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big dataclinical recordscompanion animalsmachine learningneural language modeling

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