Finds disease names in English biomedical text
What it does
This model detects disease and condition names in English biomedical text, including clinical records and research literature. It reports an F1 score of 0.829 on the BC5CDR disease benchmark and is based on the GLiNER architecture with 220 million parameters.
Best for
- Disease indexing from research papers
- Patient phenotyping from clinical notes
- Literature triage for evidence aggregation
What it detects (1 labels)
Trained on the label below; you can pass any other label names at inference time.
- Disease
Quality
| Benchmark | BC5CDR (diseases) · all models on this benchmark |
|---|---|
| F1 | 0.829 |
| Precision | 0.787 |
| Recall | 0.876 |
| Accuracy | 0.970 |
| Source | Reported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository) |
Disease Entity Recognition - Disease entities from the BC5CDR dataset
Use it
pip install gliner
from gliner import GLiNER
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-Base-220M")
print(model.predict_entities("Patient with type 2 diabetes and hypertension.", ["disease"]))
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