Efficient identification of nationally mandated reportable cancer cases using natural language processing and machine learning
Conclusion CRCP demonstrates accurate results when applying natural language processing features to the problem of detecting patients with cases of reportable cancer from clinical notes. We show that implementing only a portion of cancer reporting rules in the form of regular expressions is sufficient to increase the precision, recall, and speed of the detection of reportable cancer cases when combined with off-the-shelf information extraction software and machine learning.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Authors: Osborne, J. D., Wyatt, M., Westfall, A. O., Willig, J., Bethard, S., Gordon, G. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research
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