Extracting laboratory test information from paper-based reports.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date: Nov 6, 2023

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the healthcare domain today, despite the substantial adoption of electronic health information systems, a significant proportion of medical reports still exist in paper-based formats. As a result, there is a significant demand for the digitization of information from these paper-based reports. However, the digitization of paper-based laboratory reports into a structured data format can be challenging due to their non-standard layouts, which includes various data types such as text, numeric values, reference ranges, and units. Therefore, it is crucial to develop a highly scalable and lightweight technique that can effectively identify and extract information from laboratory test reports and convert them into a structured data format for downstream tasks.

Authors

  • Ming-Wei Ma
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Peking University First Hospital, No.7 Xishiku Street, Beijing, 100034, China.
  • Xian-Shu Gao
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Peking University First Hospital, No.7 Xishiku Street, Beijing, 100034, China. doctorgaoxs@126.com.
  • Ze-Yu Zhang
    Philips Research China, Shanghai, 200072, China.
  • Shi-Yu Shang
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Peking University First Hospital, No.7 Xishiku Street, Beijing, 100034, China.
  • Ling Jin
    Research Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
  • Pei-Lin Liu
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Peking University First Hospital, No.7 Xishiku Street, Beijing, 100034, China.
  • Feng Lv
    School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China.
  • Wei Ni
    Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Marsfield, NSW 2122, Australia.
  • Yu-Chen Han
    Philips Research China, Shanghai, 200072, China.
  • Hui Zong
    Research Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

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