Zubair Afzal

Using rule-based natural language processing to improve disease normalization in biomedical text

Kang Ning, Bharat Singh, Zubair Afzal et al. · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2012 · 131 citations · Full text

Knowledge-based extraction of adverse drug events from biomedical text

Kang Ning, Bharat Singh, Chinh Bui et al. · BMC Bioinformatics · 2014 · 84 citations · Full text

ContextD: an algorithm to identify contextual properties of medical terms in a Dutch clinical corpus

Zubair Afzal, Ewoud Pons, Kang Ning et al. · BMC Bioinformatics · 2014 · 59 citations · Full text

Improving sensitivity of machine learning methods for automated case identification from free-text electronic medical records

Zubair Afzal, Martijn J. Schuemie, Jan C. van Blijderveen et al. · BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making · 2013 · 54 citations · Full text

Automatic generation of case‐detection algorithms to identify children with asthma from large electronic health record databases

Zubair Afzal, Marjolein Engelkes, Katia Verhamme et al. · Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety · 2013 · 43 citations