Detects 16 cancer-related entity types in English biomedical text
Extract biomedical entitiesCancer and oncologyEnglishMedium · 212Mapache-2.0
What it does
This model performs named-entity recognition for oncology, identifying entities such as Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Tissue in English clinical and research documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.5 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics test set, with a precision of 0.659 and recall of 0.403.
Best for
- Extracting cancer entities from clinical notes
- Mining biomedical literature for genetic entities
- Identifying pathological formations in research papers
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 |
|---|---|
| F1 | 0.500 |
| Precision | 0.659 |
| Recall | 0.403 |
| Accuracy | 0.685 |
| Source | Reported 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-EuroMed-212M", 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-EuroMed-212M-v1-onnx-android")
for entity in model("The patient started imatinib after the consultation."):
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