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OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-Large-459M

Detects disease names in English biomedical text with zero-shot labels

Zero-shot NER (your own labels)Diseases and conditionsEnglishLarge · 459Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model performs zero-shot named-entity recognition, identifying disease and condition names in English biomedical text, such as clinical records and research literature. It is based on the GLiNER architecture with 459M parameters and reports an F1 score of 0.903 on the BC5CDR disease benchmark.

Best for

  • Disease mentions from clinical notes
  • Disease indexing in research papers
  • Custom entity detection without retraining

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
F10.903
Precision0.881
Recall0.925
Accuracy0.983
SourceReported 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-Large-459M")
print(model.predict_entities("Patient with type 2 diabetes and hypertension.", ["disease"]))
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-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-Large-459M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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