Rare disease identification from clinical notes with ontologies and weak supervision

The identification of rare diseases from clinical notes with Natural Language Processing (NLP) is challenging due to the few cases available for machine learning and the need of data annotation from clinical experts. We propose a method using ontologies and weak supervision. The approach includes tw...

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Main Authors: Dong, H, Suarez-Paniagua, V, Zhang, H, Wang, M, Whitfield, E, Wu, H
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021