Machine learning classification of surgical pathology reports and chunk recognition for information extraction noise reduction.
Journal:
Artificial intelligence in medicine
Published Date:
Jun 1, 2016
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Machine learning techniques for the text mining of cancer-related clinical documents have not been sufficiently explored. Here some techniques are presented for the pre-processing of free-text breast cancer pathology reports, with the aim of facilitating the extraction of information relevant to cancer staging.