Extracting patient data from tables in clinical literature: Case study on extraction of BMI, weight and number of patients

HEALTHINF 2016 - 9th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 223-228

  Milosevic, Nikola ^a   Gregson, Cassie ^b   Hernandez, Robert ^b   Nenadic, Goran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Information extraction; Natural language processing; Table mining; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE; BIOMEDICAL TEXT MININGS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RULE-BASED METHOD; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84969137792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0005660102230228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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