The impact of OCR accuracy on automated cancer classification of pathology reports

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 178, Issue , 2012, Pages 250-256

  Zuccon, Guido ^a   Nguyen, Anthony N ^a   Bergheim, Anton ^b   Wickman, Sandra ^b   Grayson, Narelle ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE NSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic data processing; Disease classification; Natural language processing; Optical character recognition (OCR)

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DISEASES; ERRORS; EXTRACTION; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATHOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGICAL TYPE; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); STATE OF THE ART; TEXT EXTRACTION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RECORDING; STANDARD;

AUTOMATION; COPYING PROCESSES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 84868294224     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-078-9-250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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