Ontology-driven weak supervision for clinical entity classification in electronic health records

In the electronic health record, using clinical notes to identify entities such as disorders and their temporality can inform many important analyses. Here, the authors present a framework for weakly supervised entity classification using medical ontologies and expert-generated rules.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jason A. Fries, Ethan Steinberg, Saelig Khattar, Scott L. Fleming, Jose Posada, Alison Callahan, Nigam H. Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22328-4