Title
Multilingual Information Retrieval in Thoracic Radiology: Feasibility Study.
Abstract
Most essential information contained in the electronic medical record is stored as text, and this imposes several difficulties on automated data extraction and retrieval. Natural language processing is an approach that can unlock clinical information from free texts. The proposed methodology uses the specialized natural language processor MEDLEE developed for the English language. To use this processor on Portuguese medical texts, chest X-ray reports were machine translated (MT) into English. The result of serial coupling of MT and NLP is tagged text that needs further investigation for extracting clinical findings. This experiment's objective was to investigate normal reports and reports with device description on a set of 165 chest X-ray reports. We obtained sensitivity and specificity of I and 0.71 for the first condition, and 0.97 and 0.97 for the second. The reference was formed by the opinions of two radiologists. The results of this experiment indicate the viability of extracting clinical findings from chest X-ray reports through coupling MT and NLP. http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/medinfo-2007
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.3233/978-1-58603-774-1-387
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
natural language processing,information storage and retrieval,thoracic radiography,machine translation
Data mining,English language,Information retrieval,Multilingualism,Computer science,Natural language,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Data extraction,Machine translated
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
129
Pt 1
0926-9630
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
André Coutinho Castilla100.34
Sérgio Shiguemi Furuie2183.29
Eneida A Mendonça323827.16