Using natural language processing to extract mammographic findings.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics

Published Date: Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Structured data on mammographic findings are difficult to obtain without manual review. We developed and evaluated a rule-based natural language processing (NLP) system to extract mammographic findings from free-text mammography reports.

Authors

Hongyuan Gao

Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: Gao.h@ghc.org.
Erin J Aiello Bowles

Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
David Carrell

Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
Diana S M Buist

Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.

Keywords

Algorithms Female Humans Mammography Natural Language Processing Sensitivity and Specificity Software

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Using natural language processing to extract mammographic findings.

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