scholarly journals A Skin Cancer Detection Interactive Application Based on CNN and NLP

2021 ◽  
Vol 2078 (1) ◽  
pp. 012036
Author(s):  
Xuping Gong ◽  
Yuting Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Interactive Network ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Interactive Application

Abstract Skin cancer is the most common cancer with several different types. According to current estimations, one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of it is of crucial significance. Several advanced image processing methods have been applied to predict skin cancer. However, few researchers utilize those methods to build an interactive application. In this work, we implemented an interactive skin cancer diagnosis website, combining the convolutional neural network (CNN) and natural language processing (NLP) technology. The neural network model uses four convolutional layers and dense layers respectively to improve the accuracy. Two max-pooling layers were used to reduce redundant information. To address the severe overfitting problem, we chose to utilize the batch normalization along with dropout layers. Based on our results, 0.9935 in accuracy and 0.0225 loss is realized for training data, and accuracy of 0.8393 and 0.6648 loss for testing data. Natural language processing (NLP) was used to implement a chatbot for interaction with users. We crawled skin cancer related questions and answers from Quora and used them to train our chatbot. Lastly, we combined CNN and NLP to build an interactive skin cancer diagnosis website. VUE.js and Django were used to build the front-end and back-end of our website. These results offer a guideline for combining artificial intelligence with not only medicine but also interactive network, which enables people to get medical care more easily.

scholarly journals Deep Learning-Based Natural Language Processing in Radiology: The Impact of Report Complexity, Disease Prevalence, Dataset Size, and Algorithm Type on Model Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Olthof ◽  
P. M. A. van Ooijen ◽  
L. J. Cornelissen
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Radiology Reports ◽  
Dataset Size ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn radiology, natural language processing (NLP) allows the extraction of valuable information from radiology reports. It can be used for various downstream tasks such as quality improvement, epidemiological research, and monitoring guideline adherence. Class imbalance, variation in dataset size, variation in report complexity, and algorithm type all influence NLP performance but have not yet been systematically and interrelatedly evaluated. In this study, we investigate these factors on the performance of four types [a fully connected neural network (Dense), a long short-term memory recurrent neural network (LSTM), a convolutional neural network (CNN), and a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)] of deep learning-based NLP. Two datasets consisting of radiologist-annotated reports of both trauma radiographs (n = 2469) and chest radiographs and computer tomography (CT) studies (n = 2255) were split into training sets (80%) and testing sets (20%). The training data was used as a source to train all four model types in 84 experiments (Fracture-data) and 45 experiments (Chest-data) with variation in size and prevalence. The performance was evaluated on sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, area under the curve, and F score. After the NLP of radiology reports, all four model-architectures demonstrated high performance with metrics up to > 0.90. CNN, LSTM, and Dense were outperformed by the BERT algorithm because of its stable results despite variation in training size and prevalence. Awareness of variation in prevalence is warranted because it impacts sensitivity and specificity in opposite directions.

Fast Neural Network Engine for Natural Science Language Processing: A Drug-Search Case.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vadim V. Korolev ◽  
Artem Mitrofanov ◽  
Kirill Karpov ◽  
Valery Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Therapeutic Agent ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Chemical Data ◽  
Processing Methods ◽  
Modern Natural

The main advantage of modern natural language processing methods is a possibility to turn an amorphous human-readable task into a strict mathematic form. That allows to extract chemical data and insights from articles and to find new semantic relations. We propose a universal engine for processing chemical and biological texts. We successfully tested it on various use-cases and applied to a case of searching a therapeutic agent for a COVID-19 disease by analyzing PubMed archive.

scholarly journals Towards Accurate Deceptive Opinions Detection Based on Word Order-Preserving CNN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyuan Zhao ◽  
Zhiwei Xu ◽  
Limin Liu ◽  
Mengjie Guo ◽  
Jing Yun
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Important Application ◽  
Detection Mechanism ◽  
Short Text

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has revolutionized the field of natural language processing, which is considerably efficient at semantics analysis that underlies difficult natural language processing problems in a variety of domains. The deceptive opinion detection is an important application of the existing CNN models. The detection mechanism based on CNN models has better self-adaptability and can effectively identify all kinds of deceptive opinions. Online opinions are quite short, varying in their types and content. In order to effectively identify deceptive opinions, we need to comprehensively study the characteristics of deceptive opinions and explore novel characteristics besides the textual semantics and emotional polarity that have been widely used in text analysis. In this paper, we optimize the convolutional neural network model by embedding the word order characteristics in its convolution layer and pooling layer, which makes convolutional neural network more suitable for short text classification and deceptive opinions detection. The TensorFlow-based experiments demonstrate that the proposed detection mechanism achieves more accurate deceptive opinion detection results.

Prediction of Emergency Department Hospital Admission Based on Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (05) ◽  
pp. 377-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyu Zhang ◽  
Joyce Kim ◽  
Rachel E. Patzer ◽  
Stephen R. Pitts ◽  
Aaron Patzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Free Text

SummaryObjective: To describe and compare logistic regression and neural network modeling strategies to predict hospital admission or transfer following initial presentation to Emergency Department (ED) triage with and without the addition of natural language processing elements.Methods: Using data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), a cross-sectional probability sample of United States EDs from 2012 and 2013 survey years, we developed several predictive models with the outcome being admission to the hospital or transfer vs. discharge home. We included patient characteristics immediately available after the patient has presented to the ED and undergone a triage process. We used this information to construct logistic regression (LR) and multilayer neural network models (MLNN) which included natural language processing (NLP) and principal component analysis from the patient’s reason for visit. Ten-fold cross validation was used to test the predictive capacity of each model and receiver operating curves (AUC) were then calculated for each model.Results: Of the 47,200 ED visits from 642 hospitals, 6,335 (13.42%) resulted in hospital admission (or transfer). A total of 48 principal components were extracted by NLP from the reason for visit fields, which explained 75% of the overall variance for hospitalization. In the model including only structured variables, the AUC was 0.824 (95% CI 0.818-0.830) for logistic regression and 0.823 (95% CI 0.817-0.829) for MLNN. Models including only free-text information generated AUC of 0.742 (95% CI 0.7310.753) for logistic regression and 0.753 (95% CI 0.742-0.764) for MLNN. When both structured variables and free text variables were included, the AUC reached 0.846 (95% CI 0.839-0.853) for logistic regression and 0.844 (95% CI 0.836-0.852) for MLNN.Conclusions: The predictive accuracy of hospital admission or transfer for patients who presented to ED triage overall was good, and was improved with the inclusion of free text data from a patient’s reason for visit regardless of modeling approach. Natural language processing and neural networks that incorporate patient-reported outcome free text may increase predictive accuracy for hospital admission.

scholarly journals Enhancing Natural Language Inference Using New and Expanded Training Data Sets and New Learning Models

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (05) ◽  
pp. 8504-8511
Author(s):  
Arindam Mitra ◽  
Ishan Shrivastava ◽  
Chitta Baral
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Word Attention ◽  
Attention Function

Natural Language Inference (NLI) plays an important role in many natural language processing tasks such as question answering. However, existing NLI modules that are trained on existing NLI datasets have several drawbacks. For example, they do not capture the notion of entity and role well and often end up making mistakes such as “Peter signed a deal” can be inferred from “John signed a deal”. As part of this work, we have developed two datasets that help mitigate such issues and make the systems better at understanding the notion of “entities” and “roles”. After training the existing models on the new dataset we observe that the existing models do not perform well on one of the new benchmark. We then propose a modification to the “word-to-word” attention function which has been uniformly reused across several popular NLI architectures. The resulting models perform as well as their unmodified counterparts on the existing benchmarks and perform significantly well on the new benchmarks that emphasize “roles” and “entities”.

scholarly journals Automatic ICD-10 Coding and Training System: Deep Neural Network Based on Supervised Learning

10.2196/23230 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e23230
Author(s):  
Pei-Fu Chen ◽  
Ssu-Ming Wang ◽  
Wei-Chih Liao ◽  
Lu-Cheng Kuo ◽  
Kuan-Chih Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
And Training

Background The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code is widely used as the reference in medical system and billing purposes. However, classifying diseases into ICD codes still mainly relies on humans reading a large amount of written material as the basis for coding. Coding is both laborious and time-consuming. Since the conversion of ICD-9 to ICD-10, the coding task became much more complicated, and deep learning– and natural language processing–related approaches have been studied to assist disease coders. Objective This paper aims at constructing a deep learning model for ICD-10 coding, where the model is meant to automatically determine the corresponding diagnosis and procedure codes based solely on free-text medical notes to improve accuracy and reduce human effort. Methods We used diagnosis records of the National Taiwan University Hospital as resources and apply natural language processing techniques, including global vectors, word to vectors, embeddings from language models, bidirectional encoder representations from transformers, and single head attention recurrent neural network, on the deep neural network architecture to implement ICD-10 auto-coding. Besides, we introduced the attention mechanism into the classification model to extract the keywords from diagnoses and visualize the coding reference for training freshmen in ICD-10. Sixty discharge notes were randomly selected to examine the change in the F1-score and the coding time by coders before and after using our model. Results In experiments on the medical data set of National Taiwan University Hospital, our prediction results revealed F1-scores of 0.715 and 0.618 for the ICD-10 Clinical Modification code and Procedure Coding System code, respectively, with a bidirectional encoder representations from transformers embedding approach in the Gated Recurrent Unit classification model. The well-trained models were applied on the ICD-10 web service for coding and training to ICD-10 users. With this service, coders can code with the F1-score significantly increased from a median of 0.832 to 0.922 (P<.05), but not in a reduced interval. Conclusions The proposed model significantly improved the F1-score but did not decrease the time consumed in coding by disease coders.

scholarly journals Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 461-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Beck ◽  
Trevor Cohn ◽  
Christian Hardmeier ◽  
Lucia Specia
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Model Selection ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Bayesian Methods ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Grid Search ◽  
Hyperparameter Optimization ◽  
Gradient Based

Structural kernels are a flexible learning paradigm that has been widely used in Natural Language Processing. However, the problem of model selection in kernel-based methods is usually overlooked. Previous approaches mostly rely on setting default values for kernel hyperparameters or using grid search, which is slow and coarse-grained. In contrast, Bayesian methods allow efficient model selection by maximizing the evidence on the training data through gradient-based methods. In this paper we show how to perform this in the context of structural kernels by using Gaussian Processes. Experimental results on tree kernels show that this procedure results in better prediction performance compared to hyperparameter optimization via grid search. The framework proposed in this paper can be adapted to other structures besides trees, e.g., strings and graphs, thereby extending the utility of kernel-based methods.

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