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OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Oncology-Large-459M

Finds cancer genetics entities in English biomedical text

Zero-shot NER (your own labels)Cancer and oncologyEnglishLarge · 459Mapache-2.0

What it does

This zero-shot model detects 16 oncology-related entity types, including Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Cell, in English clinical and research text, with labels supplied at inference. It reports an F1 score of 0.899 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics test set.

Best for

  • Cancer pathway curation from literature
  • Driver gene analysis in tumor biology
  • Precision oncology literature mining

What it detects (16 labels)

Trained on the label below; you can pass any other label names at inference time.

  • Amino acid
  • Anatomical system
  • Cancer
  • Cell
  • Cellular component
  • Developing anatomical structure
  • Gene or gene product
  • Immaterial anatomical entity
  • Multi-tissue structure
  • Organ
  • Organism
  • Organism subdivision
  • Organism substance
  • Pathological formation
  • Simple chemical
  • Tissue

Quality

Benchmark BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics · all models on this benchmark
F10.899
Precision0.896
Recall0.902
Accuracy0.968
SourceReported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository)

Cancer Genetics - Cancer-related genetic entities

Use it

pip install gliner

from gliner import GLiNER
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Oncology-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-Oncology-Large-459M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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