Identification of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules in Free-text Radiology Reports: An Initial Investigation.
Journal:
Studies in health technology and informatics
Published Date:
Jan 1, 2015
Abstract
Advances in image quality produced by computed tomography (CT) and the growth in the number of image studies currently performed has made the management of incidental pulmonary nodules (IPNs) a challenging task. This research aims to identify IPNs in radiology reports of chest and abdominal CT by Natural Language Processing techiniques to recognize IPN in sentences of radiology reports. Our preliminary analysis indicates vastly different pulmonary incidental findings rates for two different patient groups.
Authors
Keywords
Data Mining
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
Humans
Illinois
Incidental Findings
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Pilot Projects
Radiography, Abdominal
Radiology Information Systems
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Terminology as Topic
Vocabulary, Controlled