Title
A Concept Annotation System for Clinical Records
Abstract
Unstructured information comprises a valuable source of data in clinical records. For text mining in clinical records, concept extraction is the first step in finding assertions and relationships. This study presents a system developed for the annotation of medical concepts, including medical problems, tests, and treatments, mentioned in clinical records. The system combines six publicly available named entity recognition system into one framework, and uses a simple voting scheme that allows to tune precision and recall of the system to specific needs. The system provides both a web service interface and a UIMA interface which can be easily used by other systems. The system was tested in the fourth i2b2 challenge and achieved an F-score of 82.1% for the concept exact match task, a score which is among the top-ranking systems. To our knowledge, this is the first publicly available clinical record concept annotation system.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
SWAT4LS
text mining,web service,information retrieval
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1012.1663
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ning Kang11074.75
Rogier Barendse211.02
Zubair Afzal3985.00
Bharat Singh400.34
Martijn J. Schuemie552934.40
Erik M. Van Mulligen663344.63
Jan A. Kors763537.25