Computer Structuring of Free-Text Patient Data
C Friedman, Naomi Sager, E.C. Chi, Elaine Marsh, Catherine Christenson, Margaret S. Lyman · 2005
This paper will describe ongoing work on developing a computer representation of the information in patient narrative for mapping into a database. Previous papers reported on the design of the database and pilot applications of the system. This paper describes the steps in the text-processing, with particular emphasis on the modules that introduce semantic (i.e. medical) information into the analysis.