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OpenMed-NER-OncologyDetect-BigMed-278M

Finds 16 cancer-related entity types in English biomedical text

Extract biomedical entitiesCancer and oncologyEnglishMedium · 277Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model detects 16 cancer-related entity types, including Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Organism substance, in English clinical and research documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.791 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics test set, as reported by the author.

Best for

  • Entity extraction from cancer research papers
  • Oncology terms in clinical notes
  • Gene and cancer entity tagging

What it detects (16 labels)

  • Amino acid
  • Anatomical system
  • Cancer
  • Cell
  • Cellular component
  • Developing anatomical structure
  • Gene or gene product
  • Immaterial anatomical entity
  • Multi-tissue structure
  • Organ
  • Organism
  • Organism subdivision
  • Organism substance
  • Pathological formation
  • Simple chemical
  • Tissue

Quality

Benchmark BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics · all models on this benchmark
F10.791
Precision0.787
Recall0.795
Accuracy0.893
SourceReported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository)

Cancer Genetics - Cancer-related genetic entities

Use it

pip install transformers torch

from transformers import pipeline
ner = pipeline("token-classification", model="OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-OncologyDetect-BigMed-278M", 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-OncologyDetect-BigMed-278M-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-OncologyDetect-BigMed-278M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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