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SUBMITTER: Shivade C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4973866 | biostudies-other | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of biomedical informatics 20150912
The second track of the 2014 i2b2 challenge asked participants to automatically identify risk factors for heart disease among diabetic patients using natural language processing techniques for clinical notes. This paper describes a rule-based system developed using a combination of regular expressions, concepts from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), and freely-available resources from the community. With a performance (F1=90.7) that is significantly higher than the median (F1=87.20) an ...[more]