Customizable Natural Language Processing Biomarker Extraction Tool.
Journal:
JCO clinical cancer informatics
Published Date:
Aug 1, 2021
Abstract
PURPOSE: Natural language processing (NLP) in pathology reports to extract biomarker information is an ongoing area of research. MetaMap is a natural language processing tool developed and funded by the National Library of Medicine to map biomedical text to the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus by applying specific tags to clinically relevant terms. Although results are useful without additional postprocessing, these tags lack important contextual information.