NLP-Powered Oncology Patient Summary
T.C. Kalaiselvi, C.N. Vanitha, R. Vinodavarshini · 2023
Cancer patients often undergo lengthy and complex treatments that involve many different healthcare providers. Each encounter with a provider results in a clinical report or note, which documents the patient's progress, treatment, and outcomes. However, as the length of a patient's journey increases, doctors may not have enough time to read all of their reports thoroughly. This can be a major barrier to providing high-quality care. One way to address this problem is to use natural language processing (NLP) to generate concise summaries of clinical reports. This would allow doctors to quickly identify the reports that require their attention. NLP system could be trained to extract key information from clinical reports, such as the patient's diagnosis, current treatment plan, and any recent changes to their condition. This information could then be used to generate a summary that highlights the most important points for the doctor to review. Overall, NLP has the potential to be a valuable tool for helping doctors to efficiently manage their patients' care. Summarization extracts potential information from clinical reports. In recent years, many different approaches have been developed to extract key ideas from text and display them in a condensed manner. One of the challenges of summarization is determining which ideas are the most important and how to express them in a concise and informative way. Extractive summarization, a technique of natural language processing (NLP), address the identification and extraction of the most needed sentences from a document. These sentences are then combined to form a summary that conveys the most relevant information. Extractive summarization is a valuable tool for summarizing clinical reports because it can quickly and accurately identify the most important information, regardless of how complex or technical the report may be.