Dollars for Profs
Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest
Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Conflict of Interest
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Hua Xu
University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston, Department: None
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Melax Technologies, Inc.
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Xu is the founder, shareholder, and consultant to Melax Technologies, Inc., a private, for-profit company which will provide natural language processing software (NLP) software and service for healthcare. Melax Technologies, Inc., has an exclusive license agreement with The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston. The technology licensed to the company involves Clinical Language Annotation Modeling and Processing (CLAMP) toolkit and the license is exclusive to software and includes services. The research will develop new interactive machine learning methods for various clinical natural language processing tasks, including named entity recognition, word sense disambiguation, and clinical phenotyping. The research contributes to the development of CLAMP.
Interactive machine learning methods for clinical natural language processing
Project Narrative In this project, we propose to develop interactive machine learning methods to process clinical text stored in electronic health records (EHRs) systems. Such methods can efficiently integrate domain and expert knowledge with machine learning processes to quickly build high-quality probabilistic models with minimum annotation cost, thus improving performance of text processors. This technology will allow more accurate data extraction from clinical documents, thus to facilitate clinical research that rely on EHRs data.
Filed on June 08, 2018.
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Hua Xu filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hua Xu | University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, inc. | $40,000 - $59,999 |
| Hua Xu | University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, inc. | $5,000 - $9,999 |
| Hua Xu | University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Hua Xu | University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Hua Xu | University of California, San Diego | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
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