Specialized model for Disease Entity Recognition - Disease entities from the BC5CDR dataset
Specialized for disease and condition recognition from biomedical texts, covering clinical disorders and pathological states.Supports patient phenotyping, disease indexing, literature triage, and clinical evidence aggregation.
OpenMed ZeroShot NER is an advanced, domain-adapted Named Entity Recognition (NER) model designed specifically for medical, biomedical, and clinical text mining. Leveraging state-of-the-art zero-shot learning, this model empowers researchers, clinicians, and data scientists to extract expert-level biomedical entities—such as diseases, chemicals, genes, species, and clinical findings—directly from unstructured text, without the need for task-specific retraining.
Built on the robust GLiNER architecture and fine-tuned on curated biomedical corpora, OpenMed ZeroShot NER delivers high-precision entity recognition for critical healthcare and life sciences applications. Its zero-shot capability means you can flexibly define and extract any entity type relevant to your workflow, from standard biomedical categories to custom clinical concepts, supporting rapid adaptation to new research domains and regulatory requirements.
Whether you are working on clinical NLP, biomedical research, electronic health record (EHR) de-identification, or large-scale literature mining, OpenMed ZeroShot NER provides a production-ready, open-source solution that combines expert-level accuracy with unmatched flexibility. Join the OpenMed community to accelerate your medical text analytics with cutting-edge, zero-shot NER technology.
This zero-shot model can identify and classify biomedical entities, including but not limited to these entity types. You can also add custom entity types without retraining the model:
DISEASE💡 Zero-Shot Flexibility: As a GliNER-based model, you can specify any entity types you want to detect, even if they weren't part of the original training. Simply provide the entity labels when using the model, and it will adapt to recognize them.
BC5CDR-Disease targets disease entity recognition from the BioCreative V Chemical-Disease Relation extraction corpus.
The BC5CDR-Disease corpus is the disease-focused component of the BioCreative V Chemical-Disease Relation (CDR) task, containing 1,500 PubMed abstracts with 5,818 annotated disease entities. This manually curated dataset is designed to advance automated disease name recognition for medical diagnosis, pathology research, and clinical decision support systems. The corpus includes annotations for various disease types, medical conditions, and pathological states mentioned in biomedical literature. It serves as a benchmark for evaluating NER models in clinical and biomedical applications where accurate disease entity identification is crucial for medical informatics and healthcare analytics.
0.8653.3%| Rank | Model | Base F1 | Finetuned F1 | ΔF1 | ΔF1 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 1 | OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-Large-459M | 0.5890 | 0.9029 | 0.3138 | 53.3% |
| 🥈 2 | OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-Medium-209M | 0.5721 | 0.8848 | 0.3127 | 54.7% |
| 🥉 3 | OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-XLarge-770M | 0.6969 | 0.8593 | 0.1624 | 23.3% |
| 4 | OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-Base-220M | 0.5952 | 0.8293 | 0.2341 | 39.3% |
| 5 | OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-Multi-209M | 0.5323 | 0.7969 | 0.2645 | 49.7% |
Rankings are sorted by finetuned F1 and show ΔF1% over base model. Test dataset is excluded from training.
Figure: OpenMed ZeroShot Clinical & Biomedical NER vs. Original GLiNER models.
pip install -q "gliner[tokenizers]"
from transformers import pipeline
# Load the model and tokenizer
# Model: https://huggingface.co/OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-XLarge-770M
model_name = "OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Disease-XLarge-770M"
from gliner import GLiNER
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained(model_name)
# Example usage with default entity types
text = "The patient was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2."
labels = ['DISEASE']
entities = model.predict_entities(text, labels, flat_ner=True, threshold=0.5)
for entity in entities:
print(entity)
💡 Tip: If you want to extract entities that are not present in the original training set (i.e., use custom or rare entity types), you may get better results by lowering the threshold parameter in model.predict_entities. For example, try threshold=0.3 or even lower, depending on your use case:
# You can specify custom entity types for zero-shot recognition - for instance:
custom_entities = ["MISC", "DISEASE", "PERSON", "LOCATION", "MEDICATION", "PROCEDURE"]
entities = model.predict_entities(text, custom_entities, flat_ner=True, threshold=0.1)
for entity in entities:
print(entity)
Lowering the threshold makes the model more permissive and can help it recognize new or less common entity types, but may also increase false positives. Adjust as needed for your application.
This model is particularly useful for:
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details.
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If you use this model in your research or applications, please cite the following paper:
@misc{panahi2025openmedneropensourcedomainadapted,
title={OpenMed NER: Open-Source, Domain-Adapted State-of-the-Art Transformers for Biomedical NER Across 12 Public Datasets},
author={Maziyar Panahi},
year={2025},
eprint={2508.01630},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01630},
}
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