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This work presents an overview of three research directions that support clinical and health-related decisions: clinical question answering using both the Electronic Health Record data and the literature; consumer health question answering; and an emerging area of biomedical visual question answering (VQA).
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Demner-Fushman, D. (2019). Clinical, Consumer Health, and Visual Question Answering. In: Lossio-Ventura, J., Muñante, D., Alatrista-Salas, H. (eds) Information Management and Big Data. SIMBig 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 898. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11680-4_1
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