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. 1994 May-Jun;1(3):233-48.
doi: 10.1136/jamia.1994.95236155.

A schema for representing medical language applied to clinical radiology

C Friedman  1 , J J Cimino, S B Johnson
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A schema for representing medical language applied to clinical radiology

C Friedman et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1994 May-Jun.

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  • J Am Med Inform Assoc 1994 May-Jun;1(3):248

Abstract

Objective: Develop a representational schema for clinical concepts and apply it to the task of encoding radiology reports of the chest.

Design: The schema was developed following a manual analysis of sample reports from the domain. The schema has two main components: the Medical Entities Dictionary (MED), which specifies the formal representation of the concepts in the domain and of their structures, and the natural-language processor, which specifies the linguistic expressions of the concepts. The schema was evaluated by applying it to a test set of 7,500 reports. Two-hundred reports from the test set were manually analyzed by a medical expert to determine the accuracy and success rate of the system.

Results: 82% of the 7,500 reports that contained relevant clinical information were successfully structured automatically. For the smaller set of 200 reports, 80% were structured successfully with an accuracy rate of 97%.

Conclusions: The schema is a formal representation for clinical concepts in radiology reports, and provides domain coverage that is particularly well-suited for natural-language processing of radiology for use in a decision support system.

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