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BMI - Biomedical Informatics Lab "Mario Stefanelli"

About Us

BMI belongs to the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) of the University of Pavia, Italy. Established in 1982, it is a leading center for education, research, and IT innovative solutions in the healthcare area. Nowadays about 30 people are working at BMI, focusing their research on:

Bioinformatics Clinical Data Mining Models of Biological Systems Biomedical Knowledge Management Decision Support Systems Telemedicine E-learning

NLP Models

Our research interests have led us to frequently explore the realm of Natural Language Processing, including Transformers. Here we host public weights for our biomedical language models. There are several options to choose from, please check the details below.

Model	Domain	Type	Details
BioBIT ^⸸	Biomedical	MaskedLM Pretrain	Trained after dbmdz/bert-base-italian-xxl-cased with 28GB Pubmed abstracts (as in BioBERT) that have been translated from English into Italian using Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT).
MedBIT ^⸸	Medical	MaskedLM Pretrain	Trained after BioBIT with additional 100MB of medical textbook data without any regularization.
MedBIT-R3+ (recommended) ^⸸	Medical	MaskedLM Pretrain	Trained after BioBIT with additional 200MB of medical textbook data and web-crawled medical resources in Italian. Regularized with LLRD (.95), Mixout (.9), and Warmup (.02).

^⸸ model developed in partnership with the Neuroinformatics Lab of IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy

Other models coming soon!

Related Research Papers

Buonocore, T. M., Parimbelli, E., Sacchi, L., Bellazzi, R., Del Campo, L., & Quaglini, S. (2022). Improving Keyword-Based Topic Classification in Cancer Patient Forums with Multilingual Transformers. Studies in health technology and informatics, 290, 597–601. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220147