Pattern-based information extraction from pathology reports for cancer registration

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1887-1894

  Napolitano, Giulio ^a   Fox, Colin ^a   Middleton, Richard ^a   Connolly, David ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic data processing; Cancer registration; Cancer registries; Information extraction; Pathology report; Pattern matching; Regular expression; Surgical pathology; Text mining; Unstructured data management

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GLEASON SCORE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA;

HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REGISTRIES;

EID: 78449282862     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9616-4     Document Type: Article

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