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Curative Power of Medical Data

A special issue of Data (ISSN 2306-5729).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018) | Viewed by 19660

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Dr. Diana Trandabat

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Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, 700057 Iaşi, Romania
Dr. Daniela Gîfu

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1. Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, 700057 Iaşi, Romania
2. Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy - Iași branch, 700481 Iaşi, Romania
Dr. Kevin Bretonnel Cohen

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Computational Bioscience Program, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Interests: spinal cord injury and regeneration; analysis of the speech of suicidal individuals; temporality in health records; information extraction from epilepsy clinic notes
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Dr. Jingbo Xia

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Department of Big data science, College of Informatics, Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: BioNLP; data mining; bioinformatics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In an era where massive amounts of medical data are available, researchers working in biological, biomedical, and clinical domains have increasingly started to require the help of language engineers to process large quantities of biomedical and molecular biology literature (such as PubMed), patient data, or health records. Linking the contents of these documents to each other, as well as to specialized ontologies, could enable access to, and discovery of, structured clinical information and foster a major leap in natural language processing and health research.

MEDA-2018 aims to gather innovative approaches for the exploitation of biomedical data using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together practitioners, researchers, and scholars to share examples, use cases, theories and analysis of biomedical data. The main objective of this second edition workshop is to consolidate an internationally appreciated forum for scientific research in BioMed, with emphasis on crowdsourcing, semantic web, knowledge integration and data linking.

This Special Issue will contain the expanded versions of selected papers presented at the MEDA-2018 workshop (https://profs.info.uaic.ro/~meda/) of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2018) held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 3–6 June, 2018.

Dr. Diana Trandabat
Dr. Daniela Gîfu
Dr. Kevin Cohen
Dr. Jingbo Xia
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Keywords

  • Crowdsourcing approaches in biomedicine
  • Collaborative computational technologies for biomedical research
  • Biomedical digital libraries
  • Mining biomedical literature
  • Event-based text mining for biology and related fields
  • Event and entity extraction in medical texts
  • Conceptual graphs extracted from medical texts
  • Annotation of semantic content, with applications in medicine and biology
  • Techniques for Big Data in Healthcare
  • Medical search engines
  • Distributed communication system in biomedical applications
  • Deep learning for bioinformatics
  • Biomedical question/answering
  • Biomedical topic modeling
  • Biomedical language systems
  • Text summarization in the biomedical domain

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Special Issue on the Curative Power of Medical Data
by Daniela Gîfu, Diana Trandabăț, Kevin Cohen and Jingbo Xia
Data 2019, 4(2), 85; https://doi.org/10.3390/data4020085 - 14 Jun 2019
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With the massive amounts of medical data made available online, language technologies have proven to be indispensable in processing biomedical and molecular biology literature, health data or patient records. With huge amount of reports, evaluating their impact has long ceased to be a [...] Read more.
With the massive amounts of medical data made available online, language technologies have proven to be indispensable in processing biomedical and molecular biology literature, health data or patient records. With huge amount of reports, evaluating their impact has long ceased to be a trivial task. Linking the contents of these documents to each other, as well as to specialized ontologies, could enable access to and the discovery of structured clinical information and could foster a major leap in natural language processing and in health research. The aim of this Special Issue, “Curative Power of Medical Data” in Data, is to gather innovative approaches for the exploitation of biomedical data using semantic web technologies and linked data by developing a community involvement in biomedical research. This Special Issue contains four surveys, which include a wide range of topics, from the analysis of biomedical articles writing style, to automatically generating tests from medical references, constructing a Gold standard biomedical corpus or the visualization of biomedical data. Full article
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Towards Identifying Author Confidence in Biomedical Articles
by Mihaela Onofrei Plămadă, Diana Trandabăț and Daniela Gîfu
Data 2019, 4(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/data4010018 - 21 Jan 2019
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In an era where the volume of medical literature is increasing daily, researchers in the biomedical and clinical areas have joined efforts with language engineers to analyze the large amount of biomedical and molecular biology literature (such as PubMed), patient data, or health [...] Read more.
In an era where the volume of medical literature is increasing daily, researchers in the biomedical and clinical areas have joined efforts with language engineers to analyze the large amount of biomedical and molecular biology literature (such as PubMed), patient data, or health records. With such a huge amount of reports, evaluating their impact has long stopped being a trivial task. In this context, this paper intended to introduce a non-scientific factor that represents an important element in gaining acceptance of claims. We postulated that the confidence that an author has in expressing their work plays an important role in shaping the first impression that influences the reader’s perception of the paper. The results discussed in this paper were based on a series of experiments that were ran using data from the open archives initiative (OAI) corpus, which provides interoperability standards to facilitate effective dissemination of the content. This method may be useful to the direct beneficiaries (i.e., authors, who are engaged in medical or academic research), but also, to the researchers in the fields of biomedical text mining (BioNLP) and NLP, etc. Full article
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Medi-Test: Generating Tests from Medical Reference Texts
by Ionuț Pistol, Diana Trandabăț and Mădălina Răschip
Data 2018, 3(4), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/data3040070 - 19 Dec 2018
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The Medi-test system we developed was motivated by the large number of resources available for the medical domain, as well as the number of tests needed in this field (during and after the medical school) for evaluation, promotion, certification, etc. Generating questions to [...] Read more.
The Medi-test system we developed was motivated by the large number of resources available for the medical domain, as well as the number of tests needed in this field (during and after the medical school) for evaluation, promotion, certification, etc. Generating questions to support learning and user interactivity has been an interesting and dynamic topic in NLP since the availability of e-book curricula and e-learning platforms. Current e-learning platforms offer increased support for student evaluation, with an emphasis in exploiting automation in both test generation and evaluation. In this context, our system is able to evaluate a student’s academic performance for the medical domain. Using medical reference texts as input and supported by a specially designed medical ontology, Medi-test generates different types of questionnaires for Romanian language. The evaluation includes 4 types of questions (multiple-choice, fill in the blanks, true/false, and match), can have customizable length and difficulty, and can be automatically graded. A recent extension of our system also allows for the generation of tests which include images. We evaluated our system with a local testing team, but also with a set of medicine students, and user satisfaction questionnaires showed that the system can be used to enhance learning. Full article
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Towards the Construction of a Gold Standard Biomedical Corpus for the Romanian Language
by Maria Mitrofan, Verginica Barbu Mititelu and Grigorina Mitrofan
Data 2018, 3(4), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/data3040053 - 23 Nov 2018
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Gold standard corpora (GSCs) are essential for the supervised training and evaluation of systems that perform natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Currently, most of the resources used in biomedical NLP tasks are mainly in English. Little effort has been reported for other languages [...] Read more.
Gold standard corpora (GSCs) are essential for the supervised training and evaluation of systems that perform natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Currently, most of the resources used in biomedical NLP tasks are mainly in English. Little effort has been reported for other languages including Romanian and, thus, access to such language resources is poor. In this paper, we present the construction of the first morphologically and terminologically annotated biomedical corpus of the Romanian language (MoNERo), meant to serve as a gold standard for biomedical part-of-speech (POS) tagging and biomedical named entity recognition (bioNER). It contains 14,012 tokens distributed in three medical subdomains: cardiology, diabetes and endocrinology, extracted from books, journals and blogposts. In order to automatically annotate the corpus with POS tags, we used a Romanian tag set which has 715 labels, while diseases, anatomy, procedures and chemicals and drugs labels were manually annotated for bioNER with a Cohen Kappa coefficient of 92.8% and revealed the occurrence of 1877 medical named entities. The automatic annotation of the corpus has been manually checked. The corpus is publicly available and can be used to facilitate the development of NLP algorithms for the Romanian language. Full article
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Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization
by Hui Zhang, Yongyi Wang, Dan Wu and Jiangping Chen
Data 2018, 3(3), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/data3030035 - 11 Sep 2018
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China has the largest aging population of all countries and faces severe aging issues. As an important indicator to measure the quality of life, the life satisfaction of elderly Chinese people has received increasing attention. Based on the cross-sectional survey data collected from [...] Read more.
China has the largest aging population of all countries and faces severe aging issues. As an important indicator to measure the quality of life, the life satisfaction of elderly Chinese people has received increasing attention. Based on the cross-sectional survey data collected from 2002 to 2014, which were provided by the CLHLS (Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey) project as open datasets, this study investigated how the influence and importance of factors associated with life satisfaction in the elderly have changed during these years. In view of previous research and questionnaire data, demographic, physiological, psychological, economic and social characteristics were selected as potential influencing factors of life satisfaction. With the R programming language, we used IV (information value) as the indicator to measure the influence of associated factors and determined the importance of each factor by establishing a random forest model for each year. Data visualization was used to demonstrate change in each factor with the Microsofot PowerPoint 2016. The results show that, for most factors, their influence has fluctuated. Since 2002, the most significant factors have always been self-rated health, self-evaluation of economic level, economic self-sufficiency and bright personality. Full article
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