Automated anonymization of radiology reports: comparison of publicly available natural language processing and large language models.
Journal:
European radiology
PMID:
39480533
Abstract
PURPOSE: Medical reports, governed by HIPAA regulations, contain personal health information (PHI), restricting secondary data use. Utilizing natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLM), we sought to employ publicly available methods to automatically anonymize PHI in free-text radiology reports.