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Challenges of Ontology-Based Concept Normalization for Deep Phenotyping in Rare Skin Diseases.
Studies in health technology and informatics - 21 May 2026
Bataille Pauline, Faviez Carole, Wang Xiaomeng, Bannour Nesrine, Vincent Marc, Bodemer Christine, Garcelon Nicolas
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Extracting and standardizing phenotypic information from free-text medical reports remains a main challenge in biomedical natural language processing (NLP). Conceptual normalization, which maps textual mentions to standardized vocabularies such as the UMLS or HPO, is a key step for deep phenotyping. Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) is a rare severe and heterogeneous skin disorder causing skin and mucosal...
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