Expanding a radiology lexicon using contextual patterns in radiology reports

DiscussionThe unstructured text of clinical notes contains a wealth of information about human diseases and treatment patterns. However, searching and retrieving information from clinical notes often suffer due to variations in how similar concepts are described in the text. Biomedical lexicons address this challenge, but are expensive to produce and maintain. Distributional semantics algorithms can assist lexicon curation, saving researchers time and money.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research