Objectives To provide an overview and tutorial of natural language processing (NLP) and
modern NLP-system design. Target audience This tutorial targets the medical informatics …

Objective: The objective of this review is to summarize the state of the art of clinical decision
support (CDS) circa 1990, review progress in the 25 year interval from that time, and provide …

In 1986, the National Library of Medicine began a long-term research and development
project to build the Unified Medical Language System®(UMLS®). The purpose of the UMLS …

The great majority of medical diagnoses are made using automatic, fast, and frugal cognitive
processes; they are correct most of the time. This analytic review concerns the exceptions …

As people have interests in their health recently, development of medical domain application
has been one of the most active research areas. One example of the medical domain …

This paper is based on a panel discussion held at the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Europe (AIME) conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in July 2007. It had been more …

When the first edition of Clinical Decision Support Systems was published in 1999, I began
the preface with the statement,“We are at the beginning of a new era in the application of …

Articles about medical diagnostic decision support (MDDS) systems often begin with a
disclaimer such as,“despite many years of research and millions of dollars of expenditures …

This paper examines a kind of explainable AI, centered around what we term pro-hoc
explanations, that is a form of support that consists of offering alternative explanations (one …

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are computer systems designed to impact
clinician decision making about individual patients at the point in time that these decisions …