Automated extraction of Biomarker information from pathology reports.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Pathology reports are written in free-text form, which precludes efficient data gathering. We aimed to overcome this limitation and design an automated system for extracting biomarker profiles from accumulated pathology reports.

Authors

  • Jeongeun Lee
    Interdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National Universty, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Hyun-Je Song
    Naver Search, Naver Corporation, 6 Buljeong-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 13561, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea.
  • Eunsil Yoon
    PAS1 team, TmaxSoft, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
  • Seong-Bae Park
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.
  • Sung-Hye Park
    Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Jeong-Wook Seo
    Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Peom Park
    Department of Industrial Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
  • Jinwook Choi
    Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University 103, Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: jinchoi@snu.ac.kr.