Natural Language Processing Accurately Calculates Adenoma and Sessile Serrated Polyp Detection Rates.

Journal: Digestive diseases and sciences
Published Date: Apr 26, 2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: ADR is a widely used colonoscopy quality indicator. Calculation of ADR is labor-intensive and cumbersome using current electronic medical databases. Natural language processing (NLP) is a method used to extract meaning from unstructured or free text data.

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  • Jennifer Nayor
    Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. jnayor@bwh.harvard.edu.
  • Lawrence F Borges
    Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
  • Sergey Goryachev
  • Vivian S Gainer
    Research Computing, Partners HealthCare, Charlestown, MA, USA.
  • John R Saltzman
    Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.

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