Sentiment analysis in medical settings: New opportunities and challenges.
Journal:
Artificial intelligence in medicine
Published Date:
May 1, 2015
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Clinical documents reflect a patient's health status in terms of observations and contain objective information such as descriptions of examination results, diagnoses and interventions. To evaluate this information properly, assessing positive or negative clinical outcomes or judging the impact of a medical condition on patient's well being are essential. Although methods of sentiment analysis have been developed to address these tasks, they have not yet found broad application in the medical domain.