Canary: An NLP Platform for Clinicians and Researchers

Information Extraction methods can help discover critical knowledge buried in the vast repositories of unstructured clinical data. However, these methods are underutilized in clinical research, potentially due to the absence of free software geared towards clinicians with little technical expertise....

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Autores principales: Malmasi, Shervin, Sandor, Nicolae L., Hosomura, Naoshi, Goldberg, Matt, Skentzos, Stephen, Turchin, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Schattauer GmbH 2017
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6241741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28466087
http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2017-01-IE-0018
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author Malmasi, Shervin
Sandor, Nicolae L.
Hosomura, Naoshi
Goldberg, Matt
Skentzos, Stephen
Turchin, Alexander
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description Information Extraction methods can help discover critical knowledge buried in the vast repositories of unstructured clinical data. However, these methods are underutilized in clinical research, potentially due to the absence of free software geared towards clinicians with little technical expertise. The skills required for developing/using such software constitute a major barrier for medical researchers wishing to employ these methods. To address this, we have developed Canary, a free and open-source solution designed for users without natural language processing (NLP) or software engineering experience. It was designed to be fast and work out of the box via a user-friendly graphical interface. Citation: Malmasi S, Sandor NL, Hosomura N, Goldberg M, Skentzos S, Turchin A. Canary: an NLP platform for clinicians and researchers. Appl Clin Inform 2017; 8: 447–453 https://doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2017-01-IE-0018
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spelling pubmed-62417412018-11-23 Canary: An NLP Platform for Clinicians and Researchers Malmasi, Shervin Sandor, Nicolae L. Hosomura, Naoshi Goldberg, Matt Skentzos, Stephen Turchin, Alexander Appl Clin Inform Information Extraction methods can help discover critical knowledge buried in the vast repositories of unstructured clinical data. However, these methods are underutilized in clinical research, potentially due to the absence of free software geared towards clinicians with little technical expertise. The skills required for developing/using such software constitute a major barrier for medical researchers wishing to employ these methods. To address this, we have developed Canary, a free and open-source solution designed for users without natural language processing (NLP) or software engineering experience. It was designed to be fast and work out of the box via a user-friendly graphical interface. Citation: Malmasi S, Sandor NL, Hosomura N, Goldberg M, Skentzos S, Turchin A. Canary: an NLP platform for clinicians and researchers. Appl Clin Inform 2017; 8: 447–453 https://doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2017-01-IE-0018 Schattauer GmbH 2017-04 2017-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6241741/ /pubmed/28466087 http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2017-01-IE-0018 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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