Improved identification of noun phrases in clinical radiology reports using a high-performance statistical natural language parser augmented with the UMLS Specialist Lexicon

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-285

  Huang, Yang ^a,d   Lowe, Henry J ^a   Klein, Dan ^b   Cucina, Russell J ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NOMENCLATURE; RADIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 18044384608     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1695     Document Type: Article

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