Stéphane M Meystre, Paul M Heider, Andrew Cates, Grace Bastian, Tara Pittman, Stephanie Gentilin, Teresa J Kelechi BMC Medical Research Methodology volume 23, Article number: 88 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01916-6 Available at...
Dr. Meystre is starting a new position as Scientific Director for Data Science, AI and Data Platforms at OnePlanet Research Center, an exciting opportunity to develop a research strategy for AI, data science and data platforms and pursue novel...
Stéphane M Meystre, Paul M Heider, Youngjun Kim, Matthew Davis, Jihad Obeid, James Madory, Alexander V Alekseyenko J Am Med Inform Assoc. Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages...
Youngjun Kim, Paul M Heider, Isabel Rh Lally, and Stéphane M Meystre JMIR Med Inform. 2021 Apr 22;9(4):e22797. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33885370/ and at: https://medinform.jmir.org/2021/4/e22797/
PCORI awarded our MUSC team partnering with Vanderbilt University funding to develop, test and share a new software application for COVID-19 related information extraction based on the same new Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to...
Stephane Meystre was inducted as Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA), a recognition of the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice –...
The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) announced the 2020 class of Fellows including Stephane Meystre. The IAHSI serves as an honor society that recognizes...
Our paper on “A Comparative Analysis of Speed and Accuracy for Three Off-the-Shelf De-Identification Tools” has been awarded the Data Science Best Paper Award at the AMIA 2020 Informatics Summit.
TBIC team members will present some of our work at the AMIA 2020 Virtual Informatics Summit (program here). Paul Heider will present “A Comparative Analysis of Speed and Accuracy for Three Off-the-Shelf De-Identification Tools” on...
Stephane Meystre was invited to the 2019 HealTAC conference as keynote speaker. The conference took place in Cardiff, UK on April 23-25 2019. The keynote address focused on “Clinical Trials and Patients Automated Matchmaking.”
Insufficient patient enrollment in clinical trials remains a serious and costly problem and is often considered the most critical issue to solve for the clinical trials community. One potential barrier to enrollment is the difficulty to...
NLP development and evaluation requires tools to compare annotations, analyze differences, and compute accuracy metrics. None of the few existing tools allows consuming the output of any NLP system, comparing it with reference annotations in...
Our interactive panel at the AMIA annual symposium encountered great success and active participation by the audience. The audience experience with automatic text de-identification we limited, based on their feed-back: Presenters included...
Kim, Y., Heider, P., & Meystre, S. M. (2018). Ensemble-based Methods to Improve De-identification of Electronic Health Record Narratives. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 663–672.
The 2018 n2c2 shared tasks focused on Cohort Selection for Clinical Trials (track 1) and on Adverse Drug Events and Medication Extraction (track 2). We participated in both tracks, with 28-45 other international teams. For track 2, we obtained...
Successful panel at the EFMI Special Topic Conference (Zagreb, Croatia) featuring: Stephane Meystre on “Automatic Trial Eligibility Surveillance to Support Patient Screening Decisions” Jihad Obeid on “Automated Detection of Altered Mental...
Garvin, J. H., Kim, Y., Gobbel, G. T., Matheny, M. E., Redd, A., Bray, B. E., et al. (2018). Automating Quality Measures for Heart Failure Using Natural Language Processing: A Descriptive Study in the Department of Veterans Affairs. JMIR...
Kim, Y., Riloff, E., & Meystre, S. M. (2017). Exploiting Unlabeled Texts with Clustering-based Instance Selection for Medical Relation Classification (pp. 1060–1069). Presented at the AMIA Annu Symp Proc, Washington, DC.
The “Unstructured Clinical Data Reuse for Precision Medicine” Workshop organized at the Medinfo 2017 conference in Hangzhou, China, was a great success. Taking place on August 24, 2017, it included presentations by Christoph...
Meystre, S. M., & Doing-Harris, K. (2017). Semi-automated Ontology Development and Management System Applied to Medically Unexplained Syndromes in the U.S. Veterans Population. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Vol. 10259, pp. 345–350)...