Detect Clinical Entities (ner_jsl)

Description

Pretrained named entity recognition deep learning model for clinical terminology. The SparkNLP deep learning model (NerDL) is inspired by a former state of the art model for NER: Chiu & Nicols, Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional LSTM-CNN.

Definitions of Predicted Entities:

  • Age: All mention of ages, past or present, related to the patient or with anybody else.
  • Temperature: All mentions that refer to body temperature.
  • O2_Saturation: Systemic arterial, venous or peripheral oxygen saturation measurements.
  • Procedure: All mentions of invasive medical or surgical procedures or treatments.
  • Symptom: All the symptoms mentioned in the document, of a patient or someone else.
  • Substance: All mentions of substance use related to the patient or someone else (recreational drugs, illicit drugs).
  • Route: Drug and medication administration routes available described by FDA.
  • Blood_Pressure: Systemic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, systolic and/or diastolic are extracted.
  • Allergen: Allergen related extractions mentioned in the document.
  • Gender: Gender-specific nouns and pronouns.
  • Pulse: Peripheral heart rate, without advanced information like measurement location.
  • Modifier: Terms that modify the symptoms, diseases or risk factors. If a modifier is included in ICD-10 name of a specific disease, the respective modifier is not extracted separately.
  • Frequency: Frequency of administration for a dose prescribed.
  • Weight: All mentions related to a patients weight.
  • Dosage: Quantity prescribed by the physician for an active ingredient; measurement units are available described by FDA.
  • Respiration: Number of breaths per minute.

Predicted Entities

Diagnosis, Procedure_Name, Lab_Result, Procedure, Procedure_Findings, O2_Saturation, Procedure_incident_description, Dosage, Causative_Agents_(Virus_and_Bacteria), Name, Cause_of_death, Substance_Name, Weight, Symptom_Name, Maybe, Modifier, Blood_Pressure, Frequency, Gender, Drug_incident_description, Age, Drug_Name, Temperature, Section_Name, Route, Negation, Negated, Allergenic_substance, Lab_Name, Respiratory_Rate.

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How to use

Use as part of an nlp pipeline with the following stages: DocumentAssembler, SentenceDetector, Tokenizer, WordEmbeddingsModel, NerDLModel. Add the NerConverter to the end of the pipeline to convert entity tokens into full entity chunks.

...
embeddings_clinical = WordEmbeddingsModel.pretrained("embeddings_clinical", "en", "clinical/models")\
  .setInputCols(["sentence", "token"])\
  .setOutputCol("embeddings")
  
clinical_ner = NerDLModel.pretrained("ner_jsl", "en", "clinical/models") \
  .setInputCols(["sentence", "token", "embeddings"]) \
  .setOutputCol("ner")
...
nlpPipeline = Pipeline(stages=[document_assembler, sentence_detector, tokenizer, embeddings_clinical, clinical_ner, ner_converter])


model = nlpPipeline.fit(spark.createDataFrame([[""]]).toDF("text"))

results = model.transform(spark.createDataFrame([["The patient is a 21-day-old Caucasian male here for 2 days of congestion - mom has been suctioning yellow discharge from the patient's nares, plus she has noticed some mild problems with his breathing while feeding (but negative for any perioral cyanosis or retractions). One day ago, mom also noticed a tactile temperature and gave the patient Tylenol. Baby also has had some decreased p.o. intake. His normal breast-feeding is down from 20 minutes q.2h. to 5 to 10 minutes secondary to his respiratory congestion. He sleeps well, but has been more tired and has been fussy over the past 2 days. The parents noticed no improvement with albuterol treatments given in the ER. His urine output has also decreased; normally he has 8 to 10 wet and 5 dirty diapers per 24 hours, now he has down to 4 wet diapers per 24 hours. Mom denies any diarrhea. His bowel movements are yellow colored and soft in nature."]], ["text"]))
...
val embeddings_clinical = WordEmbeddingsModel.pretrained("embeddings_clinical", "en", "clinical/models")
  .setInputCols(Array("sentence", "token"))
  .setOutputCol("embeddings")
  
val ner = NerDLModel.pretrained("ner_jsl", "en", "clinical/models") 
  .setInputCols("sentence", "token", "embeddings")
  .setOutputCol("ner")
...
val pipeline = new Pipeline().setStages(Array(document_assembler, sentence_detector, tokenizer, embeddings_clinical, ner, ner_converter))


val data = Seq("The patient is a 21-day-old Caucasian male here for 2 days of congestion - mom has been suctioning yellow discharge from the patient's nares, plus she has noticed some mild problems with his breathing while feeding (but negative for any perioral cyanosis or retractions). One day ago, mom also noticed a tactile temperature and gave the patient Tylenol. Baby also has had some decreased p.o. intake. His normal breast-feeding is down from 20 minutes q.2h. to 5 to 10 minutes secondary to his respiratory congestion. He sleeps well, but has been more tired and has been fussy over the past 2 days. The parents noticed no improvement with albuterol treatments given in the ER. His urine output has also decreased; normally he has 8 to 10 wet and 5 dirty diapers per 24 hours, now he has down to 4 wet diapers per 24 hours. Mom denies any diarrhea. His bowel movements are yellow colored and soft in nature.").toDF("text")

val result = pipeline.fit(data).transform(data)

Results

The output is a dataframe with a sentence per row and a "ner" column containing all of the entity labels in the sentence, entity character indices, and other metadata. To get only the tokens and entity labels, without the metadata, select "token.result" and "ner.result" from your output dataframe or add the "Finisher" to the end of your pipeline.

+---------------------------+------------+
|chunk                      |ner         |
+---------------------------+------------+
|21-day-old                 |Age         |
|male                       |Gender      |
|congestion                 |Symptom_Name|
|mom                        |Gender      |
|suctioning yellow discharge|Symptom_Name|
|she                        |Gender      |
|mild                       |Modifier    |
|problems with his breathing|Symptom_Name|
|negative                   |Negated     |
|perioral cyanosis          |Symptom_Name|
|retractions                |Symptom_Name|
|mom                        |Gender      |
|Tylenol                    |Drug_Name   |
|His                        |Gender      |
|his                        |Gender      |
|respiratory congestion     |Symptom_Name|
|He                         |Gender      |
|tired                      |Symptom_Name|
|fussy                      |Symptom_Name|
|albuterol                  |Drug_Name   |
+---------------------------+------------+

Model Information

Model Name: ner_jsl_en_2.4.2_2.4
Type: ner
Compatibility: Spark NLP 2.4.2
Edition: Official
License: Licensed
Input Labels: [sentence,token, embeddings]
Output Labels: [ner]
Language: [en]
Case sensitive: false

Data Source

Trained on data gathered and manually annotated by John Snow Labs. https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/data/

Benchmarking

label                                        tp      fp     fn       prec        rec         f1
B-Pulse_Rate                                 77      39     12   0.663793   0.865169    0.75122  
I-Diagnosis                                2134    1139   1329   0.652001   0.616229    0.63361  
I-Procedure_Name                           2335    1329    956   0.637282   0.709511    0.671459 
B-Lab_Result                                601     182     94   0.767561   0.864748    0.813261 
B-Procedure                                   1       0      5   1          0.166667    0.285714 
B-Procedure_Findings                          2      13     72   0.133333   0.027027    0.044944
B-O2_Saturation                               1       3      4   0.25       0.2         0.222222 
B-Dosage                                    477     197     68   0.707715   0.875229    0.782609 
I-Causative_Agents_(Virus_and_Bacteria)      12       2      7   0.857143   0.631579    0.727273 
B-Name                                      562     268    554   0.677108   0.503584    0.577595 
I-Cause_of_death                              9       5     11   0.642857   0.45        0.529412 
I-Substance_Name                             24      34     54   0.413793   0.307692    0.352941 
I-Name                                      716     377    710   0.655078   0.502104    0.56848  
B-Cause_of_death                              9       6      8   0.6        0.529412    0.5625   
B-Weight                                     52      22      9   0.702703   0.852459    0.77037  
B-Symptom_Name                             4364    1916   1652   0.694904   0.725399    0.709824 
I-Maybe                                      27      51     61   0.346154   0.306818    0.325301 
I-Symptom_Name                             2073    1492   2348   0.581487   0.468898    0.519159 
B-Modifier                                 1573     890    768   0.638652   0.671935    0.654871 
B-Blood_Pressure                             76      19     13   0.8        0.853933    0.826087 
B-Frequency                                 308     134     77   0.696833   0.8         0.744861 
I-Gender                                     26      31     28   0.45614    0.481482    0.468468 
I-Drug_incident_description                   4      10     57   0.285714   0.065574    0.106667 
B-Drug_incident_description                   2       5     23   0.285714   0.08        0.125    
I-Age                                         5       0      9   1          0.357143    0.526316 
B-Drug_Name                                1741     490    290   0.780368   0.857213    0.816987 
B-Substance_Name                            148      41     48   0.783069   0.755102    0.768831 
B-Temperature                                56      23     13   0.708861   0.811594    0.756757 
I-Procedure                                   1       0      7   1          0.125       0.222222 
B-Section_Name                             2711     317    166   0.89531    0.942301    0.918205 
I-Route                                     119     110    189   0.519651   0.386364    0.443203 
B-Maybe                                     143      80    127   0.641256   0.52963     0.580122 
B-Gender                                   5166     709     58   0.879319   0.988897    0.930895 
I-Dosage                                    434     196     87   0.688889   0.833013    0.754127 
B-Causative_Agents_(Virus_and_Bacteria)      19       3      8   0.863636   0.703704    0.77551  
I-Frequency                                 275     134    191   0.672372   0.590129    0.628571 
B-Age                                       357      27     16   0.929688   0.957105    0.943197 
I-Lab_Result                                 45      78    152   0.365854   0.228426    0.28125  
B-Negation                                   99      38     38   0.722628   0.722628    0.722628 
B-Diagnosis                                2786    1342    913   0.674903   0.753177    0.711895 
I-Section_Name                             3885    1353    179   0.741695   0.955955    0.835304 
B-Route                                     421     217    166   0.659875   0.717206    0.687347 
I-Negation                                   11      30     24   0.268293   0.314286    0.289474 
B-Procedure_Name                           1490     811    522   0.647545   0.740557    0.690934 
B-Negated                                  1490     332    215   0.817783   0.8739      0.844911 
I-Allergenic_substance                        1       0     12   1          0.0769231   0.142857 
I-Negated                                    89     132    146   0.402715   0.378723    0.390351 
I-Procedure_Findings                          2      31    283   0.060606   0.0070175   0.012570
B-Allergenic_substance                       72      29     24   0.712871   0.75        0.730965 
I-Weight                                     47      35     16   0.573171   0.746032    0.648276 
B-Lab_Name                                  804     290    122   0.734918   0.868251    0.79604  
I-Modifier                                   99      73    422   0.575581   0.190019    0.285714 
I-Temperature                                 1       0     14   1          0.066667    0.125    
I-Drug_Name                                 362     284    261   0.560372   0.581059    0.570528 
I-Lab_Name                                  284     194    127   0.594142   0.690998    0.63892  
B-Respiratory_Rate                           46       5      5   0.901961   0.901961    0.901961 
Macro-average                             38674   15571  13819   0.589085   0.515426    0.5498   
Micro-average                             38674   15571  13819   0.712951   0.736746    0.724653