Performance of a Machine Learning Classifier of Knee MRI Reports in Two Large Academic Radiology Practices: A Tool to Estimate Diagnostic Yield.

Journal: AJR. American journal of roentgenology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of a natural language processing (NLP) system in classifying a database of free-text knee MRI reports at two separate academic radiology practices.

Authors

  • Saeed Hassanpour
    Lia Harrington, Todd MacKenzie, and Saeed Hassanpour, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover; Roberta diFlorio-Alexander, Katherine Trinh, and Arief Suriawinata, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.
  • Curtis P Langlotz
    Stanford University, University Medical Line, Stanford, CA, 94305, US.
  • Timothy J Amrhein
    3 Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
  • Nicholas T Befera
    3 Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
  • Matthew P Lungren