NLP

Clinical Prompt Learning with Frozen Language Models

Prompt learning is a new paradigm in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field which has shown impressive performance on a number of natural language tasks with common benchmarking text datasets in full, few-shot, and zero-shot train-evaluation …

Personalised treatment for cognitive impairment in dementia: development and validation of an artificial intelligence model

Background; Donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine are potentially effective interventions for cognitive impairment in dementia, but the use of these drugs has not been personalised to individual patients yet. We examined whether …

CHRONOSIG: Digital Triage for Secondary Mental Healthcare using Natural Language Processing - Rationale and Protocol

Accessing specialist secondary mental health care in the NHS in England requires a referral, usually from primary or acute care. Community mental health teams triage these referrals deciding on the most appropriate team to meet patients needs. …

New Preprint - Pilot Work on Explainability

Niall Taylor recently published his conference paper (for the ML4H Conference) on pilot work using InfoCal for explainability and rationale production in NLP

Maximizing the use of social and behavioural information from secondary care mental health electronic health records

The contribution of social and behavioural factors in the development of mental health conditions and treatment effectiveness is widely supported, yet there are weak population level data sources on social and behavioural determinants of mental …

Med7: a transferable clinical natural language processing model for electronic health records

Electronic health record systems are ubiquitous and the majority of patients’ data are now being collected electronically in the form of free text. Deep learning has significantly advanced the field of natural language processing and the …

Named entity recognition in electronic health records using transfer learning bootstrapped Neural Networks

Neural networks (NNs) have become the state of the art in many machine learning applications, such as image, sound (LeCun et al., 2015) and natural language processing (Young et al., 2017; Linggard et al., 2012). However, the success of NNs remains …

Natural language processing for structuring clinical text data on depression using UK-CRIS

Background: Utilisation of routinely collected electronic health records from secondary care offers unprecedented possibilities for medical science research but can also present difficulties. One key issue is that medical information is presented as …

Rationale production to support clinical decision-making

The development of neural networks for clinical artificial intelligence (AI) is reliant on interpretability, transparency, and performance. The need to delve into the black-box neural network and derive interpretable explanations of model output is …