A study of machine-learning-based approaches to extract clinical entities and their assertions from discharge summaries

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 601-606

  Jiang, Min ^a   Chen, Yukun ^a   Liu, Mei ^a   Rosenbloom, S Trent ^a   Mani, Subramani ^a   Denny, Joshua C ^a   Xu, Hua ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL NAMED ENTITY TAGGER; RECOGNITION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 80053271549     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000163     Document Type: Article

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