Extending electronic medical records vector models with knowledge graphs to improve hospitalization prediction.

Background: Artificial intelligence methods applied to electronic medical records (EMRs) hold the potential to help physicians save time by sharpening their analysis and decisions, thereby improving the health of patients. On the one hand, machine learning algorithms have proven their effectiveness in extracting information and exploiting knowledge extracted from data. On the other hand, knowledge graphs capture human knowledge by relying on conceptual schemas and formalization and supporting reasoning.

A case report of fungemia due to Kodamaea ohmeri.

Background: Kodamaea ohmeri is a yeast is frequently mistaken for Candida, which belongs to the same family. This micro-organism has been reported to cause life-threatening infections in humans.

Case Presentation: A 81-year-old woman developed a severe fungemic pulmonary infection due to Kodamaea ohmeri that was identified from bronchoalveolar fluid and blood cultures, which is unusual in immunocompetent patients.

Biomedical word sense disambiguation with ontologies and metadata: automation meets accuracy.

Background: Ontology term labels can be ambiguous and have multiple senses. While this is no problem for human annotators, it is a challenge to automated methods, which identify ontology terms in text. Classical approaches to word sense disambiguation use co-occurring words or terms.

[Carpal tunnel syndrome in hemodialysed patients. Analysis of 110 surgically-treated cases].

The retrospective study of this homogeneous series of 110 carpal tunnel syndromes in 70 patients on hemodialysis shows the usual severity of symptoms (right thenar amyotrophy in 56% of cases, advanced nerve lesions in 66%). Synovitis plays a major role, as demonstrated by the frequency of clicking fingers (45%), and requires synovectomy that allows thoroughly exploring the carpal tunnel and removing a highly aggressive element against tendons. In this study, fisculae do not seem to have the generally admitted importance, but it requires surgical caution.