Proposal and evaluation of FASDIM, a Fast And Simple De-Identification Method for unstructured free-text clinical records

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 303-312

  Chazard, Emmanuel ^a   Mouret, Capucine ^b   Ficheur, Grégoire ^a   Schaffar, Aurélien ^a   Beuscart, Jean Baptiste ^a   Beuscart, Régis ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anonymization; Confidentiality; De identification; Free text; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

ANONYMIZATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DE-IDENTIFICATION; FREE TEXTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING;

TERMINOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAST AND SIMPLE DEIDENTIFICATION METHOD; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKLOAD;

ANONYMIZATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DE-IDENTIFICATION; FREE TEXT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84896700614     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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