With epidemics and pandemics like COVID-19, many offline healthcare services have been suspended shifted to online, where patients doctors typically communicate by typing texts. The limited communication poses a threat the service quality of E-health, also raises higher demand on language skills doctors, in which medical terms are common concern. Traditional studies mostly hold negative attitud...

The research project MEDICO aims at developing an intelligent, robust and scalable semantic search engine for medical documents. The search engine of the MEDICO demonstrator RadSem is based on formal ontologies and is designated for different kinds of users, such as medical doctors, medical IT professionals, patients, and policy makers. Since semantic search results are not always self-explanat...

A measurement instrument that allows for assessment of clinical reasoning skills, understanding and knowledge of clinical and basic science and application of basic science to clinical problems. MEQs constitute a series of questions that must be answered in the sequence asked, with no review and no possibility of correcting previous answers. Questions must be answered within the allocated time,...

Automated biomedical concept recognition is important for biomedical document retrieval and text mining research. In this paper, we describe a two-step concept extraction technique for documents in biomedical domain. Step one includes noun phrase extraction, which can automatically extract noun phrases from medical documents. Extracted noun phrases are used as concept term candidates which beco...

OBJECTIVES To cope with medical terms, which present a high variability of expression through a single natural language, in the sense that any term may be reformulated in hundred of different ways. METHODS A typology of term variants is presented as a systematic approach in order to favour the implementation of an exhaustive solution. Then, an algorithm able to handle all variants is designed...

INTRODUCTION one of the areas of significant growth in medical devices has been the role of software - as an integral component of a medical device, as a standalone device and more recently as applications on mobile devices. The risk related to a malfunction of the standalone software used within healthcare is in itself not a criterion for its qualification or not as a medical device. It is the...