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OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Pathology-Medium-209M

Finds disease mentions in English biomedical and clinical text

Zero-shot NER (your own labels)Diseases and conditionsEnglishMedium · 209Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model performs zero-shot named-entity recognition for disease mentions in English biomedical and clinical text, with users supplying the entity label at inference. It reports an F1 score of 0.894 on the NCBI Disease benchmark, with 209M parameters and a GLiNER backbone.

Best for

  • Disease mentions from research literature
  • Cohort discovery in clinical notes
  • Knowledge graph construction from biomedical text

What it detects (1 labels)

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

  • Disease

Quality

Benchmark NCBI Disease · all models on this benchmark
F10.894
Precision0.863
Recall0.927
Accuracy0.975
SourceReported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository)

Disease Entity Recognition - Disease entities from the NCBI dataset

Use it

pip install gliner

from gliner import GLiNER
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Pathology-Medium-209M")
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-Pathology-Medium-209M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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