Automatically correlating clinical findings and body locations in radiology reports using MedLEE

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 240-249

  Sevenster, Merlijn ^a   Van Ommering, Rob ^a   Qian, Yuechen ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BI RADS; Data extraction; Knowledge base; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

BI-RADS; BREAST RADIOLOGY; DATA EXTRACTION; FREE TEXTS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRECISION AND RECALL; RADIOLOGY REPORTS; REASONING ENGINE; RECALL AND PRECISION; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SYSTEM USE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BREAST DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA MINING; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY;

BRAIN DISEASES; BREAST DISEASES; DATA MINING; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RADIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861639366     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-011-9411-0     Document Type: Article

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