Extraction of recommendation features in radiology with natural language processing: Exploratory study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 313-320

  Dang, Pragya A ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a   Schultz, Thomas J ^a   Halpern, Elkan F ^a   Dreyer, Keith J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiology practice; Recommendations; Recommended imaging techniques

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; IMAGING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 49149101134     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3508     Document Type: Article

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