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OpenMed-NER-PharmaDetect-ElectraMed-335M

Detects chemical and drug names in English clinical and research text

Extract biomedical entitiesDrugs and chemicalsEnglishMedium · 334Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model identifies chemical or drug entities in English clinical notes, research papers, and healthcare documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.959 on the BC5CDR chemicals test set, with 334M parameters and a maximum sequence length of 512 tokens.

Best for

  • Medication extraction from patient records
  • Chemical entity recognition in scientific literature
  • Drug interaction and adverse event monitoring

What it detects (1 labels)

  • Chemical or drug

Quality

Benchmark BC5CDR (chemicals) · all models on this benchmark
F10.959
Precision0.954
Recall0.965
Accuracy0.986
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-ElectraMed-335M", 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-ElectraMed-335M-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-ElectraMed-335M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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