Eligibility Criteria Extraction, Representation & Use: An Informatics-Oriented Survey

Date: August 5, 2016

Speaker: Samson Tu, BMIR, Stanford University

Abstract

I will present a 2-part talk where the first part involves a lightning review of literature that tries to highlight research topics and methods, and a second part that looks at 3 papers in more depth.

• Crowe CL, Tao C. Designing Ontology-based Patterns for the Representation of the Time-Relevant Eligibility Criteria of Clinical Protocols. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. American Medical Informatics Association; 2015;2015:173–7.
• Weng C, Wu X, Luo Z, Boland MR, Theodoratos D, Johnson SB. EliXR: an approach to eligibility criteria extraction and representation. Journal of American Medical Informatics Association; 2011 Dec;18 Suppl 1(Supplement 1):i116–24.
• Tu SW, Peleg M, Carini S, Bobak M, Ross J, Rubin D, et al. A practical method for transforming free-text eligibility criteria into computable criteria. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2011 Apr;44(2):239–50.