A practical method for transforming free-text eligibility criteria into computable criteria

A practical method for transforming free-text eligibility criteria into computable criteria

Formalizing eligibility criteria in a computer-interpretable language would facilitate eligibility determination for study subjects and the identification of studies on similar patient populations. Because such formalization is extremely labor intensive, we transform the problem from one of fully capturing the semantics of criteria directly in a formal expression language to one of annotating f...

Towards Automatic Patient Eligibility Assessment: From Free-Text Criteria to Queries

The presented work contributes to bridging the representation of clinical trials and patient data. Our ultimate goal is to support the trial recruitment, by automating the process of formalizing eligibility criteria of clinical trials, starting from free text of criteria and leading to a computable representation. This paper discusses the final step in the pipeline i.e. generating queries from ...

Medical-eligibility criteria for contraceptive use.

A fuzzy multi-criteria decision method for ecotourism development locating

The County of Khorram-Abad enjoys a high potential for ecotourism because of its mountains, forests, natural mineral springs, natural waterfalls and diversity in folks and cultures. But, un-planned and uncontrolled ecotourism can have negative effects on environment, economy, culture and even the security of eco-tourists. The main purpose of this study is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decis...

Epilepsy surgery: eligibility criteria and presurgical evaluation

Epilepsy surgery has benefited from major advances during the last 20 years, thanks to the development of neuroimaging and long-term video-electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring. However, it remains the case that only a small minority of potential epilepsy surgery candidates will have access to a comprehensive presurgical evaluation. Furthermore, this subset of patients are operated on after ...