Paper Info
Title
Assessing the Feasibility of an Automated Suggestion System for Communicating Critical Findings from Chest Radiology Reports to Referring Physicians.
Abstract
Time-sensitive communication of critical imaging findings like pneumothorax or pulmonary embolism to referring physicians is important for patient safety. However, radiology findings are recorded in free-text format, relying on verbal communication that is not always successful. Natural language processing can provide automated suggestions to radiologists that new critical findings be added to a followup list. We present a pilot assessment of the feasibility of an automated critical finding suggestion system for radiology reporting by assessing suggestions made by the pyConTextNLP algorithm. Our evaluation focused on the false alarm rate to determine feasibility of deployment without increasing alert fatigue. pyConTextNLP identified 77 critical findings from 1,370 chest exams. Review of the suggested findings demonstrated a 7.8% false alarm rate. We discuss the errors, which would be challenging to address, and compare pyConTextNLP’s false alarm rate to false alarm rates of similar systems from the literature.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
BioNLP@ACL
Pneumothorax,Software deployment,False alarm,Patient safety,Computer science,Nonverbal communication,Constant false alarm rate,Radiology
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
brian e chapman192.58
Danielle L. Mowery217423.36
Evan Narasimhan300.34
Neel Patel400.68
Wendy W. Chapman51152107.40
Marta E. Heilbrun600.34