Essays about: "medical terminology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words medical terminology.

  1. 1. Exploring Automatic Synonym Generation for Lexical Simplification of Swedish Electronic Health Records

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för hälsa, medicin och vård

    Author : Anna Jänich; [2023]
    Keywords : Lexical Simplification; EHR; Electronic Health Records; Swedish EHRs; patient records; complex medical terminology; synonym generation; synonym replacement; Word2Vec; BERT; NLP; ML;

    Abstract : Electronic health records (EHRs) are used in Sweden's healthcare systems to store patients' medical information. Patients in Sweden have the right to access and read their health records. Unfortunately, the language used in EHRs is very complex and presents a challenge for readers who lack medical knowledge. READ MORE

  3. 2. Towards terminology-based keyword extraction

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Cornelius Krassow; [2022]
    Keywords : NLP; BERT; keywords; keyword extraction; Electronic Medical Records; Swedish; patient journals;

    Abstract : The digitization of information has provided an overflow of data in many areas of society, including the clinical sector. However, confidentiality issues concerning the privacy of both clinicians and patients have hampered research into how to best deal with this kind of "clinical" data. READ MORE

  4. 3. Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Product Labels using Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

    Author : Shachi Bista; [2020]
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    Abstract : Pharamacovigilance relates to activities involving drug safety monitoring in the post-marketing phase of the drug development life-cycle. Despite rigorous trials and experiments that drugs undergo before they are available in the market, they can still cause previously unobserved side-effects (also known as adverse events) due to drug–drug interaction, genetic, physiological or demographic reasons. READ MORE

  5. 4. Loss, Gain, and Chromosomes : Readability and Translation Shifts in Medical Information for Families of Children with 10q25/10q26 Deletions

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Kristina Runyeon-Odeberg; [2019]
    Keywords : medical information; medical terminology; readability; translation strategies; translation shifts; medicinsk information; medicinsk terminologi; läsbarhet; översättningsstrategier;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis for the degree of Master, one year, is to investigate the translation of medical information from British English into Swedish. The analysis is concerned with readability and terminology. READ MORE

  6. 5. Saving Lives More Efficiently: A First Step in Designing a Visual Language : Creating and evaluating a visual language aimed at the medical field

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Jasmina Jahic; [2017]
    Keywords : visual language; symbol; icon; healthcare; linguistics; design; grammar; patient journal; visuellt språk; symbol; ikon; hälsovård; lingvistik; design; grammatik; patientjournal;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to create and evaluate a grammar for a visual language, which is to be used in the medical domain. The grammar was created with gestalt laws in mind. The grammar must also fit, in part, with the ontology of the clinical terminology SNOMED CT. READ MORE