Unlocking echocardiogram measurements for heart disease research through natural language processing
Abstract Background In order to investigate the mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in HIV infected and uninfected patients, an analysis of echocardiogram reports is required for a large longitudinal multi-center study. Implementation A natural language processing system using a dictionary lookup,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-06-01
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Series: | BMC Cardiovascular Disorders |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12872-017-0580-8 |