Validation of natural language processing to extract breast cancer pathology procedures and results

• Main Authors: Arika E Wieneke (Author), Erin J. A. Bowles (Author), David Cronkite (Author), Karen J Wernli (Author), Hongyuan Gao (Author), David Carrell (Author), Diana S. M. Buist (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Pathology reports typically require manual review to abstract research data. We developed a natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically interpret free-text breast pathology reports with limited assistance from manual abstraction. Methods: We used an iterative approach of ma...