Automatic medical protocol classification using machine learning approaches.
Journal:
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Published Date:
Jan 16, 2021
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Assignment of medical imaging procedure protocols requires extensive knowledge about patient's data, usually included in radiological request forms and radiological reports. Assignment of protocol is required prior to radiological study acquisition, determining procedure for each patient. The automation of this protocol assignment process could improve the efficiency of patient's diagnosis. Artificial intelligence has proven to be of great help in these healthcare-related problems, and specifically the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for extracting information from text reports has been successfully used in automatic text classification tasks.
