Using natural language processing to automatically classify written self-reported narratives by patients with migraine or cluster headache

ConclusionsDifferences in lexical choices between patients with migraine and cluster headache are detected with NLP and are congruent with domain expert knowledge of the disorders. Our research shows that ML algorithms have potential to classify patients ’ self-reported narratives of migraine or cluster headache with good performance. NLP shows its capability to discern relevant linguistic aspects in narratives from patients with different headache disorders and demonstrates relevance in clinical information extraction. The potential benefits on t he classification performance of larger datasets and neural NLP methods can be investigated in the future.Trial registrationThis study was registered with clinicaltrials.gov with ID NCT05377437.
Source: The Journal of Headache and Pain - Category: Neurology Source Type: research