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Predicting Rectal Cancer Patient Survival with Dutch Radiology Reports using Natural Language Processing (NLP): The Role of Pretrained Language Models

2026-01-30 health informatics Title + abstract only
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The use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has increased significantly in recent years. However, a substantial portion of the clinical data remains in unstructured text formats, especially in the context of radiology. This limits the application of EHRs for automated analysis in oncology research. Pretrained language models have been utilized to extract feature embeddings from these reports for downstream clinical applications, such as treatment response and survival prediction. However, a thor...

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