Identifying clinical phenotypes of frontotemporal dementia in post-9/11 era veterans using natural language processing

This study suggests FTD also presents across a continuum of severity and symptom distress, both within and across variants. The intensity of distress evident in clinical notes tends to cluster with more co-occurring conditions. This examination of phenotypic heterogeneity in clinical notes indicates that sensitivity to FTD diagnosis may be correlated to overall symptom distress, and future work incorporating NLP and phenotyping may help promote strategies for early detection of FTD.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research