original article   health, safety and environment management has a vast area in which ergonomics aspects is known as one of the related aspects. in this case study the occupational hygiene by ergonomic intervention was focused. one of the prevalence activities among industrial sectors' worker in the developing countries is manual lifting tasks and other related physical activities which are imp...

BACKGROUND The clinical and scientific usage of patient-reported outcome measures is increasing in the health services. Often paper forms are used. Manual double entry of data is defined as the definitive gold standard for transferring data to an electronic format, but the process is laborious. Automated forms processing may be an alternative, but further validation is warranted. METHODS 200 ...

BACKGROUND HER2 fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) is used in breast and gastro-esophageal carcinoma for determining HER2 gene amplification and patients' eligibility for HER2 targeted therapeutics. Traditional manual processing of the FISH slides is labor intensive because of multiple steps that require hands on manipulation of the slides and specifically timed intervals between steps. ...

This work focuses on semi-automatic extraction of verb-noun collocations from a corpus, performed to provide lexical evidence for the manual lexicographical processing of Support Verb Constructions (SVCs) in the Swedish-Czech Combinatorial Valency Lexicon of Predicate Nouns. Efficiency of pure manual extraction procedure is significantly improved by utilization of automatic statistical methods ...

This article presents major modifications in the MMAX2 manual annotation tool, which were implemented for the coreference annotation of Polish texts. Among other, a new feature of adjudication is described, as well as some general insight into the manual annotation tool selection process for the natural language processing tasks.

Manual reviews of health records to identify possible adverse events are time consuming. We are developing a method based on natural language processing to quickly search electronic health records for common triggers and adverse events. Our results agree fairly well with those obtained using manual reviews, and we therefore believe that it is possible to develop automatic tools for monitoring a...