TABLE III:
Selected medical words from three medical semantic categories (i.e., disorder, symptom, and drug) and the corresponding five most similar words induced by the word embeddings trained from different resources.
| Semantic Category |
Target Word | EHR | MedLit | GloVe | Google News |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| diabetes | mellitus, | cardiovascular, | hypertension, | diabetics, | |
| Disorder | uncontrolled, | nonalcoholic, | obesity, | hypertension, | |
| cholesterolemia, | obesity, | arthritis, | diabetic, | ||
| dyslipidemia, | mellitus, | cancer, | diabetes_mellitus, | ||
| melitis | polycystic | alzheimer | heart_disease | ||
| peptic ulcer disease | scleroderma, | gastritis, | ulcers, | ichen_planus, | |
| duodenal, | alcoholism, | arthritis, | Candida_infection, | ||
| crohn, | rheumatic, | diseases, | vaginal_yeast_infections, | ||
| gastroduodenal, | ischaemic, | diabetes, | oral_thrush, | ||
| diverticular | nephropathy | stomach | dermopathy | ||
| colon cancer | breast, | breast, | breast, | breast, | |
| ovarian, | mcf, | prostate, | prostate, | ||
| prostate, | cancers, | cancers, | tumor, | ||
| postmenopausally, | tumor_suppressing, | tumor, | pre_cancerous_lesion, | ||
| caner | downregulation | liver | cancerous_polyp | ||
| dyspnea | palpitations, | sweats, | shortness, | dyspnoea, | |
| Symptom | orthopnea, | orthopnea, | breathlessness, | pruritus, | |
| exertional, | breathlessness, | cyanosis, | nasopharyngitis, | ||
| doe, | hypotension, | photophobia, | symptom_severity, | ||
| dyspnoea | rhonchi | faintness | rhinorrhea | ||
| sore throat | scratchy, | runny, | shoulder, | soreness, | |
| thoat, | rhinorrhea, | stomach, | bruised, | ||
| cough, | myalgia, | nose, | inflammed, | ||
| runny, | swab_fecal, | chest, | contusion, | ||
| thraot | nose | neck | sore_triceps | ||
| low blood pressure | readings, | dose, | because, | splattering_tombstones, | |
| pressue, | cardio_ankle, | result, | Zapping_nerves_helps, | ||
| presssure, | ncbav, | high, | pressue, | ||
| bptru, | preload, | enough, | Marblehead_Swampscott_VNA, | ||
| systolically | gr | higher | pill_Norvasc | ||
| Drug | opioid | opiate, | opioids, | analgesic, | opioids, |
| benzodiazepine, | nmda_receptor, | opiate, | opioid_analgesics, | ||
| opioids, | affective_motivational, | opioids, | opioid_painkillers, | ||
| sedative, | naloxone_precipitated, | anti-inflammatory, | antipsychotics, | ||
| polypharmacy | hyperlocomotion | analgesics | tricyclic_antidepressants | ||
| aspirin | ecotrin, | chads, | ibuprofen, | dose_aspirin, | |
| uncoated, | vasc, | tamoxifen, | ibuprofen, | ||
| nonenteric, | newer, | pills, | statins, | ||
| effient, | cha, | statins, | statin, | ||
| onk | angina | medication | calcium_supplements |