Brett R. South

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2022
Publications (10 Years): 26

Top Topics

Medical Records

Natural Language

Conversational Agent

Top Venues

J. Biomed. Semant.

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.

Publications

Joseph M. Plasek, Abigail Salem, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Mary Amato, Dinah Foer, Heba Edrees, Suzanne V. Blackley, Brett R. South, Amol Rajmane, Mario Lorenzo, Paul Felt, Brendan Bull, Gretchen Purcell Jackson, Henry Feldman, David W. Bates, Li Zhou
Sampling Adverse Drug Events in Outpatient Clinical Notes for Natural Language Processing Tasks. AMIA (2022)
Anita M. Preininger, Bedda L. Rosario, Adam M. Buchold, Jeff Heiland, Nawshin Kutub, Bryan S. Bohanan, Brett R. South, Gretchen P. Jackson
Differences in information accessed in a pharmacologic knowledge base using a conversational agent vs traditional search methods. Int. J. Medical Informatics 153 (2021)
Zhoujun Sun, Rubina F. Rizvi, Shilo Anders, Brett R. South, Elisabeth Scheufele, Karlis Draulis, Henry J. Feldman
Extraction of Ambiguous Phrases Found Within Adverse Drug Event Mentions Using A Natural Language Processing-Based Annotation tool. AMIA (2021)
Brett R. South, Anita M. Preininger, Piyush Parmar, Rubina F. Rizvi, David Brotman, Shira Alevy, Mollie M. McKillop, Gretchen P. Jackson, William Kassler
Deploying Conversational Agents to Facilitate Housing Assistance Needs Resulting from COVID-19. AMIA (2021)
Mollie McKillop, Brett R. South, Anita M. Preininger, Mitch Mason, Gretchen Purcell Jackson
Leveraging conversational technology to answer common COVID-19 questions. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 28 (4) (2021)
Elisabeth L. Scheufele, Jason Hatanaka, Mya Baca, Stacy Laclaire, Jeff Heiland, Nawshin Kutub, Brett R. South, Gretchen P. Jackson
A Modular Editorial Content Curation Framework for Pharmacological and Patient Knowledge Management. AMIA (2020)
Irene Dankwa-Mullan, Mollie M. McKillop, Metasebya Solomon, Anita M. Preininger, Mark C. Roebuck, Yull E. Arriaga, Judy George, Gretchen Purcell Jackson, Brett R. South
Identifying and Leveraging Public Data Sources with Structured Social Determinants of Health Information for Observational Health Research. AMIA (2020)
Tufia C. Haddad, Konstantinos Levantakos, Brett R. South, Dilhan Weeraratne, S. John Weroha, Andrea E. Hendrickson, Amit Mahipal, Parminder Singh, Megan Sands-Lincoln, Nawshin Kutub, Melissa Rammage, Eric Will, Jane Helgeson, Jane L. Snowdon, Gretchen P. Jackson
Development and Training of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Clinical Trial Matching Tool for Oncology. AMIA (2020)
Jiantao Bian, Hamid Saoudian, Brett R. South, Kristine E. Lynch, Benjamin Viernes, Michael E. Matheny, Scott L. DuVall
Developing Synthetic VA Healthcare Data in OMOP CDM Model. AMIA (2019)
Benjamin Viernes, Kristine E. Lynch, Brett R. South, Gregorio Coronado, Scott L. DuVall
Characterizing VA Users with the OMOP Common Data Model. MedInfo (2019)
Scott L. DuVall, Michael E. Matheny, Ildar R. Ibragimov, Trey D. Oats, Jay N. Tucker, Brett R. South, Augie Turano, Hamid Saoudian, Casey Kangas, Keith D. Hofmann, Wendy Funk, Chris Nichols, Albert Bonnema, Louis Ferrucci, Jonathan R. Nebeker
A Tale of Two Databases: The DoD and VA Infrastructure for Clinical Intelligence (DaVINCI). MedInfo (2019)
Mike Conway, Salomeh Keyhani, Lee M. Christensen, Brett R. South, Marzieh Vali, Louise C. Walter, Danielle L. Mowery, Samir E. AbdelRahman, Wendy W. Chapman
Moonstone: a novel natural language processing system for inferring social risk from clinical narratives. J. Biomed. Semant. 10 (1) (2019)
Scott L. DuVall, Michael E. Matheny, Ildar R. Ibragimov, Trey D. Oats, Jay N. Tucker, Brett R. South, Augie Turano, Hamid Saoudian, Casey Kangas, Keith D. Hofmann, Wendy Funk, Chris Nichols, Albert Bonnema, Louis Ferrucci, Jonathan R. Nebeker
The Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Infrastructure for Clinical Intelligence (DaVINCI). AMIA (2018)
Brett R. South, Kristine W. Lynch, Michael E. Matheny, Julie A. Lynch, Olga Efimova, Catherine Chanfreau-Coffinier, Olga V. Patterson, Benjamin Viernes, Scott L. DuVall
Flipping the Model for Biomedical Informatics Research. AMIA (2018)
Ruth M. Reeves, Brett R. South, Glenn T. Gobbel, Lee M. Christensen, Paul Thompson, Wendy W. Chapman, Michael E. Matheny, Jeremiah R. Brown
Annotating Social Determinants of Health and Functional Status Information Using Publicly Accessible Corpora. AMIA (2018)
Danielle L. Mowery, Luke Martin, Brett R. South, Ellen Morrow, William Peche, Eric Wiesner, Wendy W. Chapman, Benjamin S. Brooke
Detecting Current Episodes of Cholecystitis-related Pain from Veterans Affairs Clinical Notes using Natural Language Processing. AMIA (2018)
Barbara Jones, Brett R. South, Y. Shao, C. C. Lu, Jianwei Leng, Brian C. Sauer, Adi V. Gundlapalli, Matthew H. Samore, Qiang Zeng
Development and Validation of a Natural Language Processing Tool to Identify Patients Treated for Pneumonia across VA Emergency Departments. Appl. Clin. Inform. 9 (01) (2018)
Danielle L. Mowery, Brett R. South, Olga V. Patterson, Shu-Hong Zhu, Mike Conway
Investigating the Documentation of Electronic Cigarette Use in the Veteran Affairs Electronic Health Record: A Pilot Study. BioNLP (2017)
Brett R. South, Lee M. Christensen, Danielle L. Mowery, Melissa Castine, Marzieh Vali, Marjorie Carter, Mike Conway, Adi V. Gundlapalli, Wendy W. Chapman, Salomeh Keyhani
Automatic Extraction of Social Determinants of Health from Veterans Affairs Clinical Documents using Natural Language Processing. CRI (2017)
Danielle L. Mowery, Brian E. Chapman, Mike Conway, Brett R. South, Erin Madden, Salomeh Keyhani, Wendy W. Chapman
Extracting a stroke phenotype risk factor from Veteran Health Administration clinical reports: an information content analysis. J. Biomed. Semant. 7 (2016)
Brett R. South, Shobhit Mehortra, Jianwei Leng, Sophia Lu, Brian C. Sauer, Grant Cannon
Automated Extraction of Disease Activity Component Measures From Electronic Medical Records Using Natural Language Processing. AMIA (2016)
Danielle L. Mowery, Brett R. South, Lee M. Christensen, Jianwei Leng, Laura-Maria Peltonen, Sanna Salanterä, Hanna Suominen, David Martínez, Sumithra Velupillai, Noémie Elhadad, Guergana Savova, Sameer Pradhan, Wendy W. Chapman
Normalizing acronyms and abbreviations to aid patient understanding of clinical texts: ShARe/CLEF eHealth Challenge 2013, Task 2. J. Biomed. Semant. 7 (2016)
Sameer Pradhan, Noémie Elhadad, Brett R. South, David Martínez, Lee M. Christensen, Amy Vogel, Hanna Suominen, Wendy W. Chapman, Guergana Savova
Evaluating the state of the art in disorder recognition and normalization of the clinical narrative. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 22 (1) (2015)
Brett R. South, Danielle L. Mowery, Lee M. Christensen, Adi V. Gundlapalli, Melissa Tharp, Marzieh Vali, Marjorie E. Carter, Mike Conway, Salomeh Keyhani, Wendy W. Chapman
Annotating ADLs and IADLs in Veterans Affairs Clinical Documents. AMIA (2015)
Nancy Gentry, Elizabeth Hanchrow, Glenn T. Gobbel, Brett R. South, Steven M. Bradley, Ruth M. Reeves
The Informatics Sculptor & the Clinical Annotator: Effective Annotation Strategies. AMIA (2015)
Glenn T. Gobbel, Ruth M. Reeves, Brett R. South, Wendy W. Chapman, Jay Jarman, Steven Lay, Michael E. Matheny
RapTAT: A Tool for Assisted Annotation and Reviewer Training via Online Machine Learning. AMIA (2015)
Stéphane M. Meystre, Óscar Ferrández, F. Jeffrey Friedlin, Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, Matthew H. Samore
Text de-identification for privacy protection: A study of its impact on clinical text information content. J. Biomed. Informatics 50 (2014)
Brett R. South, Danielle L. Mowery, Chris Leng, Stéphane M. Meystre, Wendy W. Chapman
A System Usability Study Assessing a Machine-Assisted Interactive Interface to Support Annotation of Protected Health Information in Clinical Texts. AMIA (2014)
Danielle L. Mowery, Sumithra Velupillai, Brett R. South, Lee M. Christensen, David Martínez, Liadh Kelly, Lorraine Goeuriot, Noémie Elhadad, Sameer Pradhan, Guergana K. Savova, Wendy W. Chapman
Task 2: ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014. CLEF (Working Notes) (2014)
Adi V. Gundlapalli, Marjorie E. Carter, Guy Divita, Shuying Shen, Miland N. Palmer, Brett R. South, Begum Durgahee, Matthew H. Samore
Extracting Concepts Related to a Homelessness from the Free Text of VA Electronic Medical Records. AMIA (2014)
Brett R. South, Danielle L. Mowery, Ying Suo, Jianwei Leng, Óscar Ferrández, Stéphane M. Meystre, Wendy W. Chapman
Evaluating the effects of machine pre-annotation and an interactive annotation interface on manual de-identification of clinical text. J. Biomed. Informatics 50 (2014)
Óscar Ferrández, Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, F. Jeffrey Friedlin, Matthew H. Samore, Stéphane M. Meystre
BoB, a best-of-breed automated text de-identification system for VHA clinical documents. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 20 (1) (2013)
Adi V. Gundlapalli, Marjorie Carter, Miland N. Palmer, Thomas Ginter, Andrew Redd, Steve Pickard, Shuying Shen, Brett R. South, Guy Divita, Scott L. DuVall, Thien M. Nguyen, Leonard W. D'Avolio, Matthew H. Samore
Using Natural Language Processing on the Free Text of Clinical Documents to Screen for Evidence of Homelessness Among US Veterans. AMIA (2013)
Tyler Forbush, Shuying Shen, Brett R. South, Scott DuValla
What a Catch! Traits that Define Good Annotators. MedInfo (2013)
Danielle L. Mowery, Brett R. South, Lee M. Christensen, Laura-Maria Murtola, Sanna Salanterä, Hanna Suominen, David Martínez, Noémie Elhadad, Sameer Pradhan, Guergana K. Savova, Wendy W. Chapman
Task 2: ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2013. CLEF (Working Notes) (2013)
Danielle L. Mowery, Brett R. South, Jianwei Leng, Laura-Maria Murtola, Riitta Danielsson-Ojala, Sanna Salanterä, Wendy W. Chapman
Creating a Reference Standard of Acronym and Abbreviation Annotations for the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Challenge 2013. AMIA (2013)
Sameer Pradhan, Noémie Elhadad, Brett R. South, David Martínez, Lee M. Christensen, Amy Vogel, Hanna Suominen, Wendy W. Chapman, Guergana K. Savova
Task 1: ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2013. CLEF (Working Notes) (2013)
Hanna Suominen, Sanna Salanterä, Sumithra Velupillai, Wendy Webber Chapman, Guergana K. Savova, Noemie Elhadad, Sameer Pradhan, Brett R. South, Danielle L. Mowery, Gareth J. F. Jones, Johannes Leveling, Liadh Kelly, Lorraine Goeuriot, David Martínez, Guido Zuccon
Overview of the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2013. CLEF (2013)
Jennifer H. Garvin, Scott L. DuVall, Brett R. South, Bruce E. Bray, Daniel Bolton, Julia Heavirland, Steve Pickard, Paul Heidenreich, Shuying Shen, Charlene R. Weir, Matthew H. Samore, Mary K. Goldstein
Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 19 (5) (2012)
Özlem Uzuner, Andreea Bodnari, Shuying Shen, Tyler Forbush, John Pestian, Brett R. South
Evaluating the state of the art in coreference resolution for electronic medical records. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 19 (5) (2012)
Neil Nokes, Stéphane M. Meystre, Brett R. South, Jeffrey Scehnet, Shuying Shen, Óscar Ferrández, F. Jeffrey Friedlin, Matthew Maw, Matthew H. Samore
A Survey of VHA Privacy Officers for the External Use of Automatically De-Identified Clinical Documents. AMIA (2012)
Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, Jianwei Leng, Tyler Forbush, Scott L. DuVall, Wendy W. Chapman
A Prototype Tool Set to Support Machine-Assisted Annotation. BioNLP@HLT-NAACL (2012)
Ying Suo, Shuying Shen, Scott L. DuVall, Özlem Uzuner, Brett R. South
Evaluation and Visualization of Human Annotator Learning Patterns. AMIA (2012)
Brett R. South, Danielle L. Mowery, Óscar Ferrández, Shuying Shen, Ying Suo, Mingyuan Zhang, Annie Chen, Liqin Wang, Stéphane M. Meystre, Wendy Webber Chapman
On the Road Towards Developing a Publicly Available Corpus of De-identified Clinical Texts. AMIA (2012)
Shuying Shen, Brett R. South, Jorie Butler, Robyn Barrus, Charlene R. Weir
The Relationship Between Structural Characteristics of Electronic Clinical Texts and Ratings of Document Quality. AMIA (2012)
Tyler Forbush, Brad Adams, Shuying Shen, Brett R. South, Jonathan R. Nebeker, Scott L. DuVall
CASPR: Friendly Annotation Management. AMIA (2012)
Óscar Ferrández, Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, Stéphane M. Meystre
A Hybrid Stepwise Approach for De-identifying Person Names in Clinical Documents. BioNLP@HLT-NAACL (2012)
Óscar Ferrández, Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, F. Jeffrey Friedlin, Matthew H. Samore, Stéphane M. Meystre
Generalizability and Comparison of Automatic Clinical Text De-Identification Methods and Resources. AMIA (2012)
Scott L. DuVall, Keith W. Boone, Adi V. Gundlapalli, Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, Jonathan R. Nebeker, Leonard W. D'Avolio, Matthew H. Samore
Creating Reusable Annotated Corpora with the Clinical Document Architecture. HICSS (2011)
Özlem Uzuner, Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, Scott L. DuVall
2010 i2b2/VA challenge on concepts, assertions, and relations in clinical text. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 18 (5) (2011)
Stéphane M. Meystre, Julien Thibault, Shuying Shen, John F. Hurdle, Brett R. South
Automatically Detecting Medications and the Reason for their Prescription in Clinical Narrative Text Documents. MedInfo (2010)
Stéphane M. Meystre, Julien Thibault, Shuying Shen, John F. Hurdle, Brett R. South
Textractor: a hybrid system for medications and reason for their prescription extraction from clinical text documents. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 17 (5) (2010)
Jeanmarie Mayer, Shuying Shen, Brett R. South, Stéphane M. Meystre, F. Jeff Friedlin, William R. Ray, Matthew H. Samore
Inductive Creation of an Annotation Schema and a Reference Standard for De-identification of VA Electronic Clinical Notes. AMIA (2009)
Brett R. South, Shuying Shen, Makoto Jones, Jennifer H. Garvin, Matthew H. Samore, Wendy Webber Chapman, Adi V. Gundlapalli
Developing a manually annotated clinical document corpus to identify phenotypic information for inflammatory bowel disease. BMC Bioinform. 10 (S-9) (2009)
Brett R. South, Wendy W. Chapman, Sylvain Delisle, Shuying Shen, Ericka Kalp, Trish Perl, Matthew H. Samore, Adi V. Gundlapalli
Optimizing A Syndromic Surveillance Text Classifier for Influenza-like Illness: Does Document Source Matter? AMIA (2008)