The Application of Natural Language Processing in a Medical Database System

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 醫學工程學研究所 === 89 === In hospitals, a large amount of patient data is produced each day. It has become an important issue for medical professions to extract crucial clinical information from the stack of medical data. But due to the reason that patient data is stored in narrative for...

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Main Authors: Hsiang-yu Yuan, 阮相宇
Other Authors: Jau-Min Wong
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2001
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09443921300531623147
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 醫學工程學研究所 === 89 === In hospitals, a large amount of patient data is produced each day. It has become an important issue for medical professions to extract crucial clinical information from the stack of medical data. But due to the reason that patient data is stored in narrative form, it is difficult to access information from them. In this study, we develop a natural language processor, which can transform the narrative data into structured information, which can be further used in decision support, data mining, and biomedical statistics. The natural language processing system successfully processed 7590 medical reports. The extracted clinical information is further used in a web-based patient record system. Moreover, clinical distributing is counted based on these extracted information.