Normalizing clinical terms using learned edit distance patterns.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Variations of clinical terms are very commonly encountered in clinical texts. Normalization methods that use similarity measures or hand-coded approximation rules for matching clinical terms to standard terminologies have limited accuracy and coverage.

Authors

  • Rohit J Kate
    Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Electronic address: katerj@uwm.edu.