In recent years the amount of experimental data that is produced in biomedical research and
the number of papers that are being published in this field have grown rapidly. In order to …

Vincristine, a critical component of combination chemotherapy treatment for pediatric acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), can lead to vincristine‐induced peripheral neuropathy …

Biomedical informatics is the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective
uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving …

Background With the large and increasing volume of textual data, automated methods for
identifying significant topics to classify textual documents have received a growing interest …

Background: Ontology is one strategy for promoting interoperability of heterogeneous data
through consistent tagging. An ontology is a controlled structured vocabulary consisting of …

Objective In medical information retrieval research, semantic resources have been mostly
used by expanding the original query terms or estimating the concept importance weight …

Currently, all MEDLINE documents are indexed by medical subject headings (MeSH).
Computing semantic similarity between two MeSH headings as well as two documents has …

Biomedical Informatics is a growing interdisciplinary field in which research topics and
citation trends have been evolving rapidly in recent years. To analyze these data in a fast …

This paper presents the first participation of the ERIAS team in task 3 of the ShARe/CLEF
eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014. The goal of this task is to evaluate the effectiveness of …

Objective Literature database search is a crucial step in the development of clinical practice
guidelines and systematic reviews. In the age of information technology, the process of …