bsc-bio-ehr-es-meddocan
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Model description
A fine-tuned version of the bsc-bio-ehr-es model on the MEDDOCAN corpus.
How to use
⚠ We recommend pre-tokenizing the input text into words instead of providing it directly to the model, as this is how the model was trained. Otherwise, the results and performance might get affected.
A usage example can be found here.
Limitations and bias
At the time of submission, no measures have been taken to estimate the bias embedded in the model. However, we are well aware that our models may be biased since the corpora have been collected using crawling techniques on multiple web sources. We intend to conduct research in these areas in the future, and if completed, this model card will be updated.
Additional information
Authors
NLP4BIA team at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (nlp4bia@bsc.es).
Contact information
jan.rodriguez [at] bsc.es
Funding
This project was partially funded by the Spanish Plan for the Advancement of Language Technology (Plan TL) in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona (HCB). On the BSC's side, we acknowledge additional funding by the Spanish National AI4ProfHealth project (PID2020-119266RA-I00 MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and EU Horizon projects (AI4HF 101080430 and DataTools4Heart 101057849). On the HCB's side, the project was also supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII).
Citing information
Please cite the following works:
@article{LimaLopez2025,
author = {Salvador Lima-López and Eulàlia Farré-Maduell and Luis Gasco and Jan Rodríguez-Miret and Santiago Frid and Xavier Pastor and Xavier Borrat and Martin Krallinger},
title = {A textual dataset of de-identified health records in Spanish and Catalan for medical entity recognition and anonymization},
journal = {Scientific Data},
volume = {12},
pages = {Article 1088},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
doi = {10.1038/s41597-025-05320-1},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05320-1}
}
@misc{carmen_physionet,
author = {Farre Maduell, Eulalia and Lima-Lopez, Salvador and Frid, Santiago Andres and Conesa, Artur and Asensio, Elisa and Lopez-Rueda, Antonio and Arino, Helena and Calvo, Elena and Bertran, Maria Jesús and Marcos, Maria Angeles and Nofre Maiz, Montserrat and Tañá Velasco, Laura and Marti, Antonia and Farreres, Ricardo and Pastor, Xavier and Borrat Frigola, Xavier and Krallinger, Martin},
title = {{CARMEN-I: A resource of anonymized electronic health records in Spanish and Catalan for training and testing NLP tools (version 1.0.1)}},
year = {2024},
publisher = {PhysioNet},
url = {https://doi.org/10.13026/x7ed-9r91}
},
@inproceedings{meddocan,
title={{Automatic De-identification of Medical Texts in Spanish: the MEDDOCAN Track, Corpus, Guidelines, Methods and Evaluation of Results}},
author={Marimon, Montserrat and Gonzalez-Agirre, Aitor and Intxaurrondo, Ander and Villegas, Marta and Krallinger, Martin},
booktitle="Proceedings of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2019)",
year={2019}
}
@article{physionet,
author = {Ary L. Goldberger and Luis A. N. Amaral and Leon Glass and Jeffrey M. Hausdorff and Plamen Ch. Ivanov and Roger G. Mark and Joseph E. Mietus and George B. Moody and Chung-Kang Peng and H. Eugene Stanley },
title = {PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet },
journal = {Circulation},
volume = {101},
number = {23},
pages = {e215-e220},
year = {2000},
doi = {10.1161/01.CIR.101.23.e215},
URL = {https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/01.CIR.101.23.e215}
}
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