“… Earlier this fall, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy hosted a summit to highlight ways that the Federal Government uses AI to achieve its mission and improve services to the American people. I was proud to represent NIH and provide examples of how AI is being used to make NIH more effective and efficient in its work.”
“For example, each year NIH faces the challenge of assigning the more than 80,000 grant applications it receives to the proper review group…”
“Staff at NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) creatively addressed this challenge by developing and deploying natural language processing and machine learning to automate the process for their Institute. This approach uses a machine learning algorithm, trained on historical data, to find a relationship between the text (title, abstract, and specific aims) and the scientific research area of an application. The trained algorithm can then determine the most likely scientific area of a new application and automatically assign it a program officer who is a subject matter expert in that area…”
“Now for a second example that’s more pertinent to NLM.”
“Zhiyong Lu, PhD and his team from NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information applied machine learning strategies to improve the way PubMed presents search results. Their goals were to increase the effectiveness of PubMed searches by helping users efficiently find the most relevant and high-quality information and improve usability and the user experience through a focus on the literature search behaviors and needs of users. Their approach is called the Best Match algorithm…” Read the full article here.
Source: How NIH Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Improve Operations – NLM Director Patti Brennan, November 19, 2019. National Library of Medicine.
