Digitalising the past decades: automated ICD-10 coding of unstructured free text dermatological diagnoses

• Main Authors: Sebastian Sitaru (Author), Fabian Nhan (Author), Christine Gasteiger (Author), Daniel Rueckert (Author), Tilo Biedermann (Author), Alexander Zink (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Current digital medical databases record systematically coded diagnoses, but many legacy databases are full of hand-written, free text diagnoses, which can only be meaningfully analysed after mapping them to a coding system. While diagnoses can be extracted from full medical note...