https://github.com/EmilyAlsentzer/clinicalBERT
Repository for Publicly Available Clinical BERT Embeddings (NAACL Clinical NLP Workshop 2019)
UPDATE: You can now use ClinicalBERT directly through the transformers library. Check out the Bio+Clinical BERT and Bio+Discharge Summary BERT model pages for instructions on how to use the models within the Transformers library.
The Clinical BERT models can also be downloaded here, or via
wget -O pretrained_bert_tf.tar.gz https://www.dropbox.com/s/8armk04fu16algz/pretrained_bert_tf.tar.gz?dl=1
biobert_pretrain_output_all_notes_150000
corresponds to Bio+Clinical BERT, and biobert_pretrain_output_disch_100000
corresponds to Bio+Discharge Summary BERT. Both models are finetuned from BioBERT. We specifically use the BioBERT-Base v1.0 (+ PubMed 200K + PMC 270K) version of BioBERT.
bert_pretrain_output_all_notes_150000
corresponds to Clinical BERT, and bert_pretrain_output_disch_100000
corresponds to Discharge Summary BERT. Both models are finetuned from the cased version of BERT, specifically cased_L-12_H-768_A-12.
To reproduce the steps necessary to finetune BERT or BioBERT on MIMIC data, follow the following steps:
- Run
format_mimic_for_BERT.py
- Note you'll need to change the file paths at the top of the file. - Run
create_pretrain_data.sh
- Run
finetune_lm_tf.sh
Note: See issue #4 for ways to improve section splitting code.
To see an example of how to use clinical BERT for the Med NLI tasks, go to the run_classifier.sh
script in the downstream_tasks folder. To see an example for NER tasks, go to the run_i2b2.sh
script.
Please post a Github issue or contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
Please acknowledge the following work in papers or derivative software:
Emily Alsentzer, John Murphy, William Boag, Wei-Hung Weng, Di Jin, Tristan Naumann, and Matthew McDermott. 2019. Publicly available clinical BERT embeddings. In Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 72-78, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
@inproceedings{alsentzer-etal-2019-publicly,
title = "Publicly Available Clinical {BERT} Embeddings",
author = "Alsentzer, Emily and
Murphy, John and
Boag, William and
Weng, Wei-Hung and
Jin, Di and
Naumann, Tristan and
McDermott, Matthew",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop",
month = jun,
year = "2019",
address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-1909",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-1909",
pages = "72--78"
}