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OpenMed-NER-OncologyDetect-SnowMed-568M

Detects 16 cancer and genetic entity types in English biomedical text

Extract biomedical entitiesCancer and oncologyEnglishLarge · 567Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model identifies cancer-related genetic entities such as Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Cell in English clinical and research documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.88 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics benchmark, with 567 million parameters and a maximum sequence length of 8194 tokens.

Best for

  • Extracting cancer entities from clinical notes
  • Mining genetic mentions in research papers
  • 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
F10.880
Precision0.877
Recall0.883
Accuracy0.937
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-SnowMed-568M", 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-SnowMed-568M-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-SnowMed-568M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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