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ReviewAsia-Pacific journal of ophthalmology (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Natural Language Processing in medicine and ophthalmology: A review for the 21st-century clinician.

William Rojas-Carabali, Rajdeep Agrawal, Laura Gutierrez-Sinisterra, Sally L Baxter, Carlos Cifuentes-González, Yap Chun Wei, John Abisheganaden, Palvannan Kannapiran, Sunny Wong, Bernett Lee and 2 more

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Review in Asia-Pacific journal of ophthalmology (Philadelphia, Pa.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

William Rojas-CarabaliLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Singapore.
Rajdeep AgrawalLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Laura Gutierrez-SinisterraTan Tock Seng Hospital, National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Singapore.
Sally L BaxterDivision of Ophthalmology Informatics and Data Science, Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Carlos Cifuentes-GonzálezNeuroscience Research Group (NEUROS), Neurovitae Center for Neuroscience, Institute of Translational Medicine (IMT), Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Yap Chun WeiHealth Services and Outcomes Research, National Healthcare Group, Singapore.
John AbisheganadenLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Health Services and Outcomes Research, National Healthcare Group, Singapore; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
Palvannan KannapiranHealth Services and Outcomes Research, National Healthcare Group, Singapore.
Sunny WongLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Bernett LeeLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Alejandra de-la-TorreNeuroscience Research Group (NEUROS), Neurovitae Center for Neuroscience, Institute of Translational Medicine (IMT), Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Rupesh AgrawalLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Singapore; Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore; Duke NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: rupesh_agrawal@ttsh.com.sg.

Funding

San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER)T15LM011271 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SHAMIM NEMATI · 2012 to 2026
$9.7M
NLM NIH HHS T15 LM011271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence that focuses on the interaction between computers and human language, enabling computers to understand, generate, and derive meaning from human language. NLP's potential applications in the medical field are extensive and vary from extracting data from Electronic Health Records -one of its most well-known and frequently exploited uses- to investigating relationships among genetics, biomarkers, drugs, and diseases for the proposal of new medications. NLP can be useful for clinical decision support, patient monitoring, or medical image analysis. Despite its vast potential, the real-world application of NLP is still limited due to various challenges and constraints, meaning that its evolution predominantly continues within the research domain. However, with the increasingly widespread use of NLP, particularly with the availability of large language models, such as ChatGPT, it is crucial for medical professionals to be aware of the status, uses, and limitations of these technologies.

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Natural Language ProcessingOphthalmologyArtificial IntelligenceElectronic Health RecordsHumansArtificial IntelligenceChatGPTClinical ApplicationLarge Language ModelsNatural Language ProcessingOphthalmology

Identifiers

PMID39059557
PMCPMC11919464

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