Symbolic rule-based classification of lung cancer stages from free-text pathology reports

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 440-445

  Nguyen, Anthony N ^a   Lawley, Michael J ^a   Hansen, David P ^a   Bowman, Rayleen V ^b   Clarke, Belinda E ^b   Duhig, Edwina E ^b   Colquist, Shoni ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUSTRALIA; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

EID: 77958187989     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.003707     Document Type: Article

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