Understanding Urgency in Radiology Reporting: Identifying Associations Between Clinical Findings in Radiology Reports and Their Prompt Communication to Referring Physicians
Xing Meng, Michael V. Heinz, Craig H. Ganoe, Ryan T. Sieberg, Yvonne Y. Cheung, Saeed Hassanpour · Studies in health technology and informatics · 2019
In this study, we aim to develop an automatic pipeline to identify clinical findings in the unstructured text of radiology reports that necessitate communications between radiologists and referring physicians. Our approach identified 20 distinct clinical concepts and highlighted statistically significant concepts with strong associations to cases that require prompt communication.