Karin Verspoor

Automating Quality Assessment of Medical Evidence in Systematic Reviews: Model Development and Validation Study.

Simon Šuster, Timothy Baldwin, Jey Han Lau, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, David Martinez Iraola, Yulia Otmakhova, Karin Verspoor

Journal article  |  2023  |  J Med Internet Res

BACKGROUND: Assessment of the quality of medical evidence available on the web is a critical step in the preparation of systematic..

The Secondary Use of Electronic Health Records for Data Mining: Data Characteristics and Challenges

Tabinda Sarwar, Sattar Seifollahi, Jeffrey Chan, Xiuzhen Zhang, Vural Aksakalli, Irene Hudson, Karin Verspoor, Lawrence Cavedon

Journal article  |  2023  |  ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS

The primary objective of implementing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is to improve the management of patients' health-related in..

Detecting evidence of invasive fungal infections in cytology and histopathology reports enriched with concept-level annotations.

Vlada Rozova, Anna Khanina, Jasmine C Teng, Joanne SK Teh, Leon J Worth, Monica A Slavin, Karin A Thursky, Karin Verspoor

Journal article  |  2023  |  J Biomed Inform

Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are particularly dangerous to high-risk patients with haematological malignancies and are respon..

An evaluation of existing text de-identification tools for use with patient progress notes from Australian general practice.

Carol El-Hayek, Siamak Barzegar, Noel Faux, Kim Doyle, Priyanka Pillai, Simon J Mutch, Alaina Vaisey, Roger Ward, Lena Sanci, Adam G Dunn, Margaret E Hellard, Jane S Hocking, Karin Verspoor, Douglas Ir Boyle

Journal article  |  2023  |  Int J Med Inform

INTRODUCTION: Digitized patient progress notes from general practice represent a significant resource for clinical and public heal..

Classifying literature mentions of biological pathogens as experimentally studied using natural language processing.

Antonio Jose Jimeno Yepes, Karin Verspoor

Journal article  |  2023  |  J Biomed Semantics

BACKGROUND: Information pertaining to mechanisms, management and treatment of disease-causing pathogens including viruses and bact..

Stratification of keratoconus progression using unsupervised machine learning analysis of tomographical parameters

K Cao, K Verspoor, E Chan, M Daniell, S Sahebjada, PN Baird

Journal article  |  2023  |  Intelligence-Based Medicine

Purpose: This study aimed to stratify eyes with keratoconus (KC) based on longitudinal changes in all Pentacam parameters into clu..

The gut microbiome is a significant risk factor for future chronic lung disease.

Yang Liu, Shu Mei Teo, Guillaume Méric, Howard HF Tang, Qiyun Zhu, Jon G Sanders, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Karin Verspoor, Ville A Vartiainen, Pekka Jousilahti, Leo Lahti, Teemu Niiranen, Aki S Havulinna, Rob Knight, Veikko Salomaa, Michael Inouye

Journal article  |  2022  |  J Allergy Clin Immunol

BACKGROUND: The gut-lung axis is generally recognized, but there are few large studies of the gut microbiome and incident respirat..

Predicting Publication of Clinical Trials Using Structured and Unstructured Data: Model Development and Validation Study.

Siyang Wang, Simon Šuster, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Medical Internet Research

BACKGROUND: Publication of registered clinical trials is a critical step in the timely dissemination of trial findings. However, a..

Performance of ICD-10-AM codes for quality improvement monitoring of hospital-acquired pneumonia in a haematology-oncology casemix in Victoria, Australia

Jake C Valentine, Elizabeth Gillespie, Karin M Verspoor, Lisa Hall, Leon J Worth

Journal article  |  2022  |  HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: The Australian hospital-acquired complication (HAC) policy was introduced to facilitate negative funding adjustments i..

Propagation, detection and correction of errors using the sequence database network

Benjamin Goudey, Nicholas Geard, Karin Verspoor, Justin Zobel

Journal article  |  2022  |  BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Nucleotide and protein sequences stored in public databases are the cornerstone of many bioinformatics analyses. The records conta..