Text Mining in Healthcare: Bringing Structure to Electronic Health Records
Ayoub Bagheri · 2021
Given the rapid rate at which text data are being digitally gathered in the medical domain, there is growing need for automated tools that can analyze clinical notes and classify their sentences in electronic health records (EHRs).This study uses EHR texts to detect patients' disease history from clinical sentences.However, in EHRs, sentences are less topic-focused and shorter than that in general domain, which leads to the sparsity of co-occurrence patterns and the lack of semantic features.To tackle this challenge, current approaches for clinical sentence classi-