Design and evaluation of an ontology based information extraction system for radiological reports

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 900-911

  Soysal, Ergin ^a   Cicekli, Ilyas ^b   Baykal, Nazife ^c  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Medical language processing; Natural language processing; Ontology; Turkish radiology reports

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; EXTRACTION RULE; FREE TEXTS; HIGH PRECISION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MODELS; MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONTOLOGY-BASED INFORMATION EXTRACTION; RADIOLOGY REPORTS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; STRUCTURED INFORMATION; TURKISHS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MORPHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; X RAY;

EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; TRANSLATING; TURKEY;

EID: 78649331437     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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