Title
Sentence-based classification of free-text breast cancer radiology reports
Abstract
Radiology reports generally consist of narrative text. It has been envisioned that structured medical content can be leveraged to clinical applications. Text-mining techniques can be utilized to realize this vision. We created a pipeline for automatic sentence classification of narrative breast cancer radiology reports. A corpus of 353 reports and 8166 sentences was annotated with seven sentence classes related to laterality, modality and recommendation. Sentences have been represented by four types of feature sets, characterizing various levels of linguistic complexity and domain knowledge. We conducted an evaluation to find the optimal combination of features and the optimal classification paradigm. The classification accuracy ranges between 92 and 98% for the different classes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/CBMS.2012.6266374
Computer-Based Medical Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
cancer,data mining,medical computing,radiology,text analysis,automatic sentence classification,domain knowledge,free-text breast cancer radiology reports,linguistic complexity,narrative breast cancer radiology,sentence-based classification,text-mining techniques
Data mining,Breast cancer,Domain knowledge,Computer science,Narrative,Linguistic sequence complexity,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Radiology,Sentence
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-7125
978-1-4673-2049-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aisan Maghsoodi100.68
Merlijn Sevenster29813.33
Johannes Scholtes300.34
Georgi I. Nalbantov400.34