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OpenMed-NER-PharmaDetect-BioMed-109M

Finds chemical and drug names in English biomedical text

Extract biomedical entitiesDrugs and chemicalsEnglishSmall · 109Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model identifies mentions of drugs and chemicals in English clinical notes, research papers, and healthcare documents, labeling them as 'Chemical or drug'. It reports an F1 score of 0.948 on the BC5CDR chemicals benchmark and is built on a 109M-parameter BiomedELECTRA backbone.

Best for

  • Medication extraction from patient records
  • Literature mining for drug discovery
  • Chemical entity recognition in research papers

What it detects (1 labels)

  • Chemical or drug

Quality

Benchmark BC5CDR (chemicals) · all models on this benchmark
F10.948
Precision0.932
Recall0.964
Accuracy0.988
SourceReported 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-BioMed-109M", 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-BioMed-109M-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-BioMed-109M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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