Bin Ji

Dr. Bin Ji


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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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9 April 2019 in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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BJBin Ji
Bin Ji
RLRui Liu
Rui Liu
SLShasha Li
Shasha Li
JYJie Yu
Jie Yu
QWQingbo Wu
Qingbo Wu
JWJiaju Wu
Jiaju Wu
With the rapid spread of electronic medical records and the arrival of medical big data era, the application of natural language processing technology in biomedicine has become a hot research topic. In this paper, firstly, BiLSTM-CRF model is applied to medical named entity recognition on Chinese electronic medical record. According to the characteristics of Chinese electronic medical records, obtain the low-dimensional word vector of each word in units of sentences. And then input the word vector to BiLSTM to realize automatic extraction of sentence features. And then CRF performs sentence-level word tagging. Secondly, attention mechanism is added between the BiLSTM and the CRF to construct Attention-BiLSTM-CRF model, which can leverage document-level information to alleviate tagging inconsistency. In addition, this paper proposes an entity auto-correct algorithm to rectify entities according to historical entity information. At last, a drug dictionary and post-processing rules are well-built to rectify entities, to further improve performance. The final F1 scores of the BiLSTM-CRF and Attention-BiLSTM-CRF model on given test dataset are 90.15 and 90.82% respectively, both of which are higher than 89.26%, which is the best F1 score on the test dataset except ours. Our approach can be used to recognize medical named entity on Chinese electronic medical records and achieves the state-of-the-art performance on the given test dataset.