A text processing pipeline to extract recommendations from radiology reports

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 354-362

  Yetisgen Yildiz, Meliha ^a,b   Gunn, Martin L ^a   Xia, Fei ^a,b   Payne, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural language processing; Recommendation identification; Section segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; DATA IMBALANCE; FEATURE TYPES; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RADIOLOGY REPORTS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TEXT CLASSIFICATION METHODS;

AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINES; RADIOLOGY; TEXT PROCESSING;

RADIATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INTERNIST; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84875621214     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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