Artificial intelligence (AI) in rare diseases: is the future brighter?

S Brasil, C Pascoal, R Francisco, V dos Reis Ferreira… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
The amount of data collected and managed in (bio) medicine is ever-increasing. Thus, there
is a need to rapidly and efficiently collect, analyze, and characterize all this information …

Knowledge-based approaches to drug discovery for rare diseases

VM Alves, D Korn, V Pervitsky, A Thieme… - Drug Discovery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The conventional drug discovery pipeline has proven to be unsustainable for rare diseases.
Herein, we discuss recent advances in biomedical knowledge mining applied to discovering …

A context-aware diversity-oriented knowledge recommendation approach for smart engineering solution design

X Li, CH Chen, P Zheng, Z Jiang, L Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
To proactively fulfill multiple stakeholders' needs in the engineering solution design process,
the knowledge recommendation approach is adopted as a key element in the knowledge …

Diagnosis support systems for rare diseases: a scoping review

C Faviez, X Chen, N Garcelon, A Neuraz… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Introduction Rare diseases affect approximately 350 million people worldwide. Delayed
diagnosis is frequent due to lack of knowledge of most clinicians and a small number of …

Improving rare disease classification using imperfect knowledge graph

X Li, Y Wang, D Wang, W Yuan, D Peng… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2019 - Springer
Background Accurately recognizing rare diseases based on symptom description is an
important task in patient triage, early risk stratification, and target therapies. However, due to …

Diagnosis of Rare Diseases: a scoping review of clinical decision support systems

J Schaaf, M Sedlmayr, J Schaefer, H Storf - Orphanet journal of rare …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Rare Diseases (RDs), which are defined as diseases affecting no more
than 5 out of 10,000 people, are often severe, chronic and life-threatening. A main problem …

Detecting rare diseases in electronic health records using machine learning and knowledge engineering: case study of acute hepatic porphyria

AM Cohen, S Chamberlin, T Deloughery, M Nguyen… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background With the growing adoption of the electronic health record (EHR) worldwide over
the last decade, new opportunities exist for leveraging EHR data for detection of rare …

[HTML][HTML] Patients' and doctors' perceptions of a mobile phone–based consultation service for maternal, neonatal, and infant health care in Bangladesh: a mixed …

M Alam, C Banwell, A Olsen, K Lokuge - JMIR mHealth and …, 2019 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: A mobile-based consultation service, or telehealth, can be used for remote
consultations with health care professionals for screening, self-care management, and …

Improving early diagnosis of rare diseases using Natural Language Processing in unstructured medical records: an illustration from Dravet syndrome

T Lo Barco, M Kuchenbuch, N Garcelon… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background The growing use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is promoting the
application of data mining in health-care. A promising use of big data in this field is to …

An artificial intelligence-based approach for identifying rare disease patients using retrospective electronic health records applied for Pompe disease

S Lin, J Nateqi, R Weingartner-Ortner, S Gruarin… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objective We retrospectively screened 350,116 electronic health records (EHRs) to identify
suspected patients for Pompe disease. Using these suspected patients, we then describe …