Unlocking echocardiogram measurements for heart disease research through natural language processing

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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Main Authors: Olga V. Patterson, Matthew S. Freiberg, Melissa Skanderson, Samah J. Fodeh, Cynthia A. Brandt, Scott L. DuVall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Subjects:
Natural language processing
Text mining
Information extraction
Echocardiography
Heart function
Left ventricular ejection fraction
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12872-017-0580-8

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