A Neuro-ontology for the neurological examination.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The use of clinical data in electronic health records for machine-learning or data analytics depends on the conversion of free text into machine-readable codes. We have examined the feasibility of capturing the neurological examination as machine-readable codes based on UMLS Metathesaurus concepts.

Authors

  • Daniel B Hier
    Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 S. Wood Street (MC 796), Chicago, IL, 60612, USA. dhier@uic.edu.
  • Steven U Brint
    Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 S. Wood Street (MC 796), Chicago, IL, 60612, USA.