An enhanced CRFs-based system for information extraction from radiology reports

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 425-435

  Esuli, Andrea ^a   Marcheggiani, Diego ^a   Sebastiani, Fabrizio ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical narratives; Concept extraction; Conditional random fields; Information extraction; Machine learning; Medical reports; Radiology reports

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL NARRATIVES; CONCEPT EXTRACTION; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MEDICAL REPORTS; RADIOLOGY REPORTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RADIATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

RADIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA EXTRACTION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LINEAR CHAIN CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; RADIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 84878166593     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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