Comparison of MetaMap and cTAKES for entity extraction in clinical notes.
Journal:
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date:
Sep 14, 2018
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Clinical notes such as discharge summaries have a semi- or unstructured format. These documents contain information about diseases, treatments, drugs, etc. Extracting meaningful information from them becomes challenging due to their narrative format. In this context, we aimed to compare the automatic extraction capacity of medical entities using two tools: MetaMap and cTAKES.