Structured pathology reporting for cancer from free text: Lung cancer case study

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nguyen, Anthony ^a   Lawley, Michael ^a   Hansen, David ^a   Colquist, Shoni ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer staging; Information extraction; Lung cancer; Natural language processing; Synoptic reporting; Systematized nomenclature of medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860591085     PISSN: 14464381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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