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OpenMed-NER-OncologyDetect-ElectraMed-109M

Extracts 16 cancer-related entity types from English biomedical text

Extract biomedical entitiesCancer and oncologyEnglishSmall · 109Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model performs named-entity recognition for cancer genetics, identifying entities such as Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Organism substance in English clinical and research documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.732 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics test set, with 109M parameters and a 512-token input limit.

Best for

  • Entity extraction from cancer research papers
  • Mining clinical notes for oncology terms
  • Building biomedical knowledge graphs

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
F10.732
Precision0.720
Recall0.744
Accuracy0.897
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-ElectraMed-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-ElectraMed-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-ElectraMed-109M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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