Canary NLP Tool Library

Below you can find a library of publicly available NLP tools developed for the Canary platform. Any of these tools can be used with any Canary installation, free of charge.

As one can only see far if one stands on the shoulders of giants, we encourage Canary users to make NLP tools they developed publicly available, so that Canary NLP developer community can learn from each other. We will be happy to give you as much, or as little credit, as you wish. To submit a Canary NLP tool to be posted in this library please email canary@partners.org.

Each NLP tool listed below is a zip file that contains all files needed for a Canary language model. Unzip the file into a folder of your choice (we do not recommend unzipping on the PC desktop) and indicate (on the Canary <Run> tab) the location of the input and output folders to use it.

Please note that we recommend that you re-validate the NLP tools provided below on data from your institution, as it is not uncommon for clinical discourse to differ between organizations. Nevertheless, we hope that the NLP tools provided below will be helpful to you as a starting point in your work.

Attribution

If you end up publishing work that was based on using the tools below, please cite the original Canary publication as well as this website.

  1. Diagnosis (on the example of calciphylaxis)
    • Contributors: Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
    • Contributed: 03/07/2019
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  2. Family History (on the example of breast cancer)
    • Contributors: Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
    • Contributed: 03/07/2019
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  3. Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
    • Contributors: Joonghee Kim, MD, MS and Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
    • Contributed: 03/07/2019
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  4. Aortic Valve Area
    • Contributors: Joonghee Kim, MD, MS and Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
    • Contributed: 03/07/2019
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  5. Mean Aortic Gradient
    • Contributors: Joonghee Kim, MD, MS and Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
    • Contributed: 03/07/2019
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  6. Coronary Artery Disease
    • Contributors: Adam Berman, MD; David Biery; Alexander Turchin, MD, MS; and Ron Blankstein, MD
    • Contributed: 05/03/2021
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  7. Hypertension
    • Contributors: Adam Berman, MD; David Biery; Alexander Turchin, MD, MS; and Ron Blankstein, MD
    • Contributed: 05/03/2021
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  8. Diabetes
    • Contributors: Adam Berman, MD; David Biery; Alexander Turchin, MD, MS; and Ron Blankstein, MD
    • Contributed: 05/03/2021
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  9. Dyslipidemia
    • Contributors: Adam Berman, MD; David Biery; Alexander Turchin, MD, MS; and Ron Blankstein, MD
    • Contributed: 05/03/2021
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  10. Stroke-TIA
    • Contributors: Adam Berman, MD; David Biery; Alexander Turchin, MD, MS; and Ron Blankstein, MD
    • Contributed: 05/03/2021
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  11. Statin Non-Acceptance by Patients
    • Contributors: C. Justin Brown, PharmD; Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
    • Contributed: 12/22/2022
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  12. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
    • Contributors: Adam Berman, MD; Curtis Ginder, MD; Zachary Sporn, MD; Varsha Tanguturi, MD; Jason Wasfy, MD
    • Contributed: 01/29/2023
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    • Read-Me (instructions)
  13. Metabolic / Bariatric Surgery Discussion
    • Contributors: Lee-Shing Chang, MD
    • Contributed: 03/18/2024
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  14. Tobacco Use Documentation
    • Contributors: Fritha Morrison, PhD
    • Contributed: 03/18/2024
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