Clinical Text Mining: Secondary Use of Electronic Patient Records

• Main Author: Hercules Dalianis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2018
• Subjects: Natural Language Processing; Text Analysis; Data Mining; Health Informatics; Text Mining; Medical Terminologies; Health Care Information Systems; Support Vector Machines
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records. It is divided into twelve chapters. Chapters 1-4 discuss the history and background of the original paper-based patient records, their pur...