Detects disease names in English clinical and biomedical text
Extract biomedical entitiesDiseases and conditionsEnglishMedium · 354Mapache-2.0
What it does
This model identifies disease entities in English clinical notes, research papers, and healthcare documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.89 on the BC5CDR disease benchmark, with 354 million parameters and a maximum sequence length of 514 tokens.
Best for
- Extracting diseases from clinical notes
- Mining disease mentions in research papers
- Building biomedical knowledge graphs
What it detects (1 labels)
- Disease
Quality
| Benchmark | BC5CDR (diseases) · all models on this benchmark |
|---|---|
| F1 | 0.890 |
| Precision | 0.875 |
| Recall | 0.906 |
| Accuracy | 0.979 |
| Source | Reported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository) |
Disease Entity Recognition - Disease entities from the BC5CDR dataset
Use it
pip install transformers torch
from transformers import pipeline
ner = pipeline("token-classification", model="OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-DiseaseDetect-SuperMedical-355M", 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-DiseaseDetect-SuperMedical-355M-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-DiseaseDetect-SuperMedical-355M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
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