Developing a RadLex-Based Named Entity Recognition Tool for Mining Textual Radiology Reports: Development and Performance Evaluation Study

BackgroundNamed entity recognition (NER) plays an important role in extracting the features of descriptions such as the name and location of a disease for mining free-text radiology reports. However, the performance of existing NER tools is limited because the number of entit...

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Main Authors: Shintaro Tsuji, Andrew Wen, Naoki Takahashi, Hongjian Zhang, Katsuhiko Ogasawara, Gouqian Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2021-10-01
Series:Journal of Medical Internet Research
Online Access:https://www.jmir.org/2021/10/e25378