Automated concept-level information extraction to reduce the need for custom software and rules development

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 607-613

  D'Avolio, Leonard W ^a,b   Nguyen, Thien M ^a   Goryachev, Sergey ^a   Fiore, Louis D ^a,c,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80053274431     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000183     Document Type: Article

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