Detects disease names in English biomedical text with zero-shot capability
What it does
This model identifies disease entities in English clinical and research text, allowing users to supply custom entity labels at inference time. It reports an F1 score of 0.709 on the NCBI Disease benchmark, with 166 million parameters and a GLiNER backbone.
Best for
- Disease mentions from research literature
- Custom entity detection in clinical notes
- Biomedical knowledge graph construction
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 |
|---|---|
| F1 | 0.709 |
| Precision | 0.665 |
| Recall | 0.760 |
| Accuracy | 0.939 |
| Source | Reported 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-Small-166M")
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-Small-166M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
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