Comparison of natural language processing algorithms for medical texts

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.

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Main Author: Chen, Michelle W., M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Authors: Peter Szolovits.
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Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100298
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spelling mit-1721.1/1002982019-04-09T17:33:03Z Comparison of natural language processing algorithms for medical texts Comparison of NLP systems for medical text Chen, Michelle W., M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Peter Szolovits. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Title as it appears in MIT Commencement Exercises program, June 5, 2015: Comparison of NLP systems for medical text. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-58). With the large corpora of clinical texts, natural language processing (NLP) is growing to be a field that people are exploring to extract useful patient information. NLP applications in clinical medicine are especially important in domains where the clinical observations are crucial to define and diagnose the disease. There are a variety of different systems that attempt to match words and word phrases to medical terminologies. Because of the differences in annotation datasets and lack of common conventions, many of the systems yield conflicting results. The purpose of this thesis project is (1) to create a visual representation of how different concepts compare to each other when using various annotators and (2) to improve upon the NLP methods to yield terms with better fidelity to what the clinicians are trying to express. by Michelle W. Chen. M. Eng. 2015-12-16T15:54:14Z 2015-12-16T15:54:14Z 2015 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100298 930617097 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 58 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Chen, Michelle W., M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparison of natural language processing algorithms for medical texts
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