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OpenMed-NER-OncologyDetect-TinyMed-135M

Identifies 16 cancer-related entity types in English biomedical text

Extract biomedical entitiesCancer and oncologyEnglishSmall · 135Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model detects 16 fixed entity types such as Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Organ in English clinical and research text. It reports an F1 score of 0.775 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics test set.

Best for

  • Extracting cancer entities from clinical notes
  • Mining genetic entities in research papers
  • Identifying anatomical structures in oncology literature

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
F10.775
Precision0.765
Recall0.785
Accuracy0.908
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-TinyMed-135M", 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-TinyMed-135M-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-TinyMed-135M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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