Structuring clinical text with AI: Old versus new natural language processing techniques evaluated on eight common cardiovascular diseases

Summary: Free-text clinical notes in electronic health records are more difficult for data mining while the structured diagnostic codes can be missing or erroneous. To improve the quality of diagnostic codes, this work extracts diagnostic codes from free-text notes: five old and new word vectorizati...

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Main Authors: Xianghao Zhan, Marie Humbert-Droz, Pritam Mukherjee, Olivier Gevaert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:Patterns
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921001227