Fit-for-Purpose Natural Language Processing to Enrich Real-World Psychiatric Data
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Clinical records in neuropsychiatry predominantly consist of rich, yet unstructured textual data, significantly limiting their utility for rigorous scientific analysis and clinical decision-making. Holmusk’s NeuroBlu NLP leverages advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) methodologies, specifically transformer-based deep learning models such as BERT, to systematically extract structured clinical information from these notes.

This research-oriented overview highlights the development of sophisticated NLP techniques within the NeuroBlu framework, designed to systematically extract symptomatology and clinical indicators from psychiatric patient records. We discuss the methodological underpinnings of symptom identification models, their validation, and their application across diverse psychiatric disorders including depressive and psychotic conditions. By transforming previously inaccessible textual information into structured, analyzable data, NeuroBlu NLP methods enhance clinical research capabilities, improve patient cohort identification, and allow more nuanced retrospective analyses.

Key challenges including model generalizability, interpretability, and maintenance are critically examined, alongside potential strategies for addressing these issues. The implications of NLP-driven data structuring through NeuroBlu NLP are significant, demonstrating clear potential to substantially advance psychiatric research and enhance real-world clinical practice through improved data accessibility and analytic depth.
Date: 29 April 2025, 15:00
Venue: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Speaker: Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
Organising department: Department of Psychiatry
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: andrey.kormilitzin@psych.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Part of: Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
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Audience: Public
Editor: Andrey Kormilitzin