A de-identifier for medical discharge summaries

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-35

  Uzuner, Özlem ^a   Sibanda, Tawanda C ^b   Luo, Yuan ^a   Szolovits, Peter ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic de identification of narrative patient records; Dictionaries; Local lexical context; Local syntactic context; Sentential global context; Syntactic information for de identification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GLOSSARIES; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AUTOMATIC DE-IDENTIFICATION OF NARRATIVE PATIENT RECORDS; LOCAL LEXICAL CONTEXT; LOCAL SYNTACTIC CONTEXT; SENTENTIAL GLOBAL CONTEXT; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION FOR DE-IDENTIFICATION;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEMANTICS;

EID: 37649006666     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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