Detects drug and chemical names in English clinical and research text
Extract biomedical entitiesDrugs and chemicalsEnglishLarge · 559Mapache-2.0
What it does
This model identifies chemical or drug entities in English clinical texts and biomedical literature. It reports an F1 score of 0.953 on the BC5CDR chemicals test set, with a precision of 0.945 and recall of 0.961.
Best for
- Extracting drug mentions from clinical notes
- Mining chemical compounds in research papers
- Identifying medications in patient records
What it detects (1 labels)
- Chemical or drug
Quality
| Benchmark | BC5CDR (chemicals) · all models on this benchmark |
|---|---|
| F1 | 0.953 |
| Precision | 0.945 |
| Recall | 0.961 |
| Accuracy | 0.988 |
| Source | Reported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository) |
Chemical Entity Recognition - Chemical entities from the BC5CDR dataset
Use it
pip install transformers torch
from transformers import pipeline
ner = pipeline("token-classification", model="OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-PharmaDetect-BigMed-560M", 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-PharmaDetect-BigMed-560M-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-PharmaDetect-BigMed-560M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
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