Exploring optimal granularity for extractive summarization of unstructured health records: Analysis of the largest multi-institutional archive of health records in Japan

Automated summarization of clinical texts can reduce the burden of medical professionals. “Discharge summaries” are one promising application of the summarization, because they can be generated from daily inpatient records. Our preliminary experiment suggests that 20–31% of the descriptions in disch...

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Main Authors: Kenichiro Ando, Takashi Okumura, Mamoru Komachi, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Yuji Matsumoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-09-01
Series:PLOS Digital Health
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931252/?tool=EBI