Use of natural language processing techniques to predict patient selection for total hip and knee arthroplasty from radiology reports.

Journal: The bone & joint journal
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Abstract

AIMS: To examine whether natural language processing (NLP) using a clinically based large language model (LLM) could be used to predict patient selection for total hip or total knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA) from routinely available free-text radiology reports.

Authors

  • Luke Farrow
    University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
  • Mingjun Zhong
    University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
  • Lesley Anderson
    University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.