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

• Main Authors: Shintaro Tsuji (Author), Andrew Wen (Author), Naoki Takahashi (Author), Hongjian Zhang (Author), Katsuhiko Ogasawara (Author), Gouqian Jiang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 entities that can be extracte...