Structuring Legacy Pathology Reports by openEHR Archetypes to Enable Semantic Querying.

Journal: Methods of information in medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Clinical information is often stored as free text, e.g. in discharge summaries or pathology reports. These documents are semi-structured using section headers, numbered lists, items and classification strings. However, it is still challenging to retrieve relevant documents since keyword searches applied on complete unstructured documents result in many false positive retrieval results.

Authors

  • Stefan Kropf
    Stefan Kropf, Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery, (ICCAS), Leipzig University, Semmelweisstraße 14, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, E-mail: stefan.kropf@imise.uni-leipzig.de.
  • Peter Krücken
  • Wolf Mueller
  • Kerstin Denecke
    Institute for Medical Informatics, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.