A frame semantic overview of NLP-based information extraction for cancer-related EHR notes.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
Published Date: Oct 4, 2019

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: There is a lot of information about cancer in Electronic Health Record (EHR) notes that can be useful for biomedical research provided natural language processing (NLP) methods are available to extract and structure this information. In this paper, we present a scoping review of existing clinical NLP literature for cancer.

Authors

  • Surabhi Datta
    IMO Health, Inc., Rosemont, IL 60018, United States.
  • Elmer V Bernstam
    Center for Computational Biomedicine, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA, Department of Public Health Science, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 303, Charleston, SC 29425, USA and Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1400 Holcombe Blvd., FC8.3044, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
  • Kirk Roberts
    The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA.

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