Identifies chemical and drug names in English biomedical texts
Extract biomedical entitiesDrugs and chemicalsEnglishMedium · 354Mapache-2.0
What it does
This model detects chemical or drug entity names in English clinical notes, research papers, and healthcare documents. It reports an F1 score of 0.959 on the BC5CDR chemicals benchmark, with 354 million parameters and a maximum sequence length of 514 tokens.
Best for
- Medication extraction from patient records
- Chemical compound identification in literature
- Drug interaction monitoring in clinical text
What it detects (1 labels)
- Chemical or drug
Quality
| Benchmark | BC5CDR (chemicals) · all models on this benchmark |
|---|---|
| F1 | 0.959 |
| Precision | 0.952 |
| Recall | 0.965 |
| 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-SuperMedical-355M", 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-SuperMedical-355M-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-SuperMedical-355M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
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