Research Area:  Machine Learning
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities in medicine can help address many pressing problems in healthcare. However, AI research endeavors in healthcare may not be clinically relevant, may have unrealistic expectations, or may not be explicit enough about their limitations. A diverse and well-functioning multidisciplinary team (MDT) can help identify appropriate and achievable AI research agendas in healthcare, and advance medical AI technologies by developing AI algorithms as well as addressing the shortage of appropriately labeled datasets for machine learning. In this paper, our team of engineers, clinicians and machine learning experts share their experience and lessons learned from their two-year-long collaboration on a natural language processing (NLP) research project. We highlight specific challenges encountered in cross-disciplinary teamwork, dataset creation for NLP research, and expectation setting for current medical AI technologies.
Keywords:  
Medical Natural Language Processing
natural language processing
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Author(s) Name:  Joy T. Wu, Franck Dernoncourt, Sebastian Gehrmann, Patrick D Tyler,Edward T Moseley, Eric T Carlson, David W Grant, Yeran Li, Jonathan Welt, Leo Anthony Celi
Journal name:  International Journal of Medical Informatics
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Publisher name:  Elsevier
DOI:  10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.12.003
Volume Information:  Volume 112, April 2018, Pages 68-73
Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S138650561730446X