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OpenMed-NER-OncologyDetect-BioMed-109M

Extracts 16 oncology-related biomedical entities from English clinical and research texts

Extract biomedical entitiesCancer and oncologyEnglishSmall · 109Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model performs named-entity recognition for cancer genetics, identifying 16 entity types such as Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Pathological formation in English clinical and research documents. It is based on Microsoft's BiomedELECTRA and reports an F1 score of 0.771 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics test set.

Best for

  • Entity extraction from oncology clinical notes
  • Mining cancer genetics literature
  • Identifying gene and chemical mentions

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
F10.772
Precision0.758
Recall0.786
Accuracy0.925
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-BioMed-109M", 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-BioMed-109M-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-BioMed-109M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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