Facilitating surveillance of pulmonary invasive mold diseases in patients with haematological malignancies by screening computed tomography reports using natural language processing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ananda Rajah, Michelle R ^a   Martinez, David ^b   Slavin, Monica A ^c,d   Cavedon, Lawrence ^e   Dooley, Michael ^f,g   Cheng, Allen ^a,g   Thursky, Karin A ^c,d  

^a Infectious Diseases Unit   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c PETER DOHERTY INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION AND IMMUNITY   (Australia)

^d PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^e RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Pharmacy Department   (Australia)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC LEUKEMIA; CLASSIFIER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LUNG MYCOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MACHINE LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; LUNG DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOSES; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907459150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107797     Document Type: Article

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