Feature engineering combined with machine learning and rule-based methods for structured information extraction from narrative clinical discharge summaries

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 824-832

  Xu, Yan ^a,b   Hong, Kai ^b,c   Tsujii, Junichi ^b   Chang, Eric I Chao ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; DRUG DOSE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; NOMENCLATURE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84872242834     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000776     Document Type: Article

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