Identifies cancer genetics entities in English clinical and research text
Extract biomedical entitiesCancer and oncologyEnglishSmall · 150Mapache-2.0
What it does
This model detects 16 cancer-related entity types, including Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Simple chemical, in English clinical and research documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.774 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics benchmark, with a 150M-parameter ModernBERT backbone.
Best for
- Entity extraction from oncology literature
- Mining genetic entities in clinical notes
- Identifying chemical compounds 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 | 0.774 |
| Precision | 0.780 |
| Recall | 0.769 |
| Accuracy | 0.918 |
| 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-ModernClinical-149M", 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-ModernClinical-149M-v1-onnx-android")
for entity in model("The patient started imatinib after the consultation."):
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