LEWES, Del., Sept. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- John Snow Labs, the AI for healthcare company, today announced it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the development of medical Large Language Models (LLMs) for infectious and immune-mediated diseases. The award, totaling $299,208 for one year, will be used for research and development of LLMs for automated named entity recognition (NER), relation extraction, and ontology metadata enrichment from free-text clinical notes.
A prevailing challenge in this field involves accurately linking identified entities from tables, columns, or individual data values and their relationships. With a lack of semantic data standards for tracking infectious diseases like tuberculosis, measles, influenza, COVID-19, and others, it's difficult to accurately measure and study them. The ability to make sense ...
