Kevin Lybarger

Extracting Radiological Findings With Normalized Anatomical Information Using a Span-Based BERT Relation Extraction Model

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Medical imaging is critical to the diagnosis and treatment of numerous medical problems, including many forms of cancer. Medical imaging reports distill the findings and observations of radiologists, creating an unstructured textual representation of unstructured …

Health Text Simplification: An Annotated Corpus for Digestive Cancer Education and Novel Strategies for Reinforcement Learning

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Objective: The reading level of health educational materials significantly influences the understandability and accessibility of the information, particularly for minoritized populations. Many patient educational resources surpass the reading level and complexity of widely accepted standards. …