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OpenMed-NER-ChemicalDetect-BioMed-335M

Detects chemical and drug names in English biomedical literature

Extract biomedical entitiesDrugs and chemicalsEnglishMedium · 334Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model identifies chemical compounds and substances in English biomedical literature, including clinical texts and research papers. It reports an F1 score of 0.944 on the BC4CHEMD benchmark and is based on a 334M-parameter BiomedELECTRA backbone.

Best for

  • Medication extraction from patient records
  • Literature mining for drug discovery
  • Adverse event monitoring in clinical text

What it detects (1 labels)

  • Chemical or drug

Quality

Benchmark BC4CHEMD · all models on this benchmark
F10.944
Precision0.938
Recall0.951
Accuracy0.988
SourceReported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository)

Chemical Entity Recognition - Identifies chemical compounds and substances in biomedical literature

Use it

pip install transformers torch

from transformers import pipeline
ner = pipeline("token-classification", model="OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-ChemicalDetect-BioMed-335M", aggregation_strategy="simple")
print(ner("Patient prescribed 10 mg aspirin for hypertension."))
Android, browser, CPU (ONNX) build
pip install --upgrade "openmed[onnx-runtime]"

from openmed import OnnxModel
model = OnnxModel.from_pretrained("OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-ChemicalDetect-BioMed-335M-v1-onnx-android")
for entity in model("The patient started imatinib after the consultation."):
    print(entity.to_dict())
Apple Silicon (MLX) build
pip install "openmed[mlx]"

from openmed import analyze_text
from openmed.core.config import OpenMedConfig
result = analyze_text("Patient started imatinib in March.", model_name="OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-ChemicalDetect-BioMed-335M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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