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Automated Derivation of Diagnostic Criteria for Lung Cancer using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Health Records: A pilot study.

2024-02-21 health informatics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe digitisation of healthcare records has generated vast amounts of unstructured data, presenting opportunities for improvements in disease diagnosis when clinical coding falls short, such as in the recording of patient symptoms. This study presents an approach using natural language processing to extract clinical concepts from free-text which are used to automatically form diagnostic criteria for lung cancer from unstructured secondary-care data. MethodsPatients aged 40 and above wh...

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