Automatic classification of radiological reports for clinical care

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Highlights:

• A system for automatic classification of chest computed tomography reports.

• A hierarchical classification schema for chest computed tomography reports.

• NLP techniques for annotation and classification of radiological reports.

• Combination of a cascade of machine learning based classifiers and heuristic rules.

• Experimental evaluation of the classification system showing good performance.

摘要

•A system for automatic classification of chest computed tomography reports.•A hierarchical classification schema for chest computed tomography reports.•NLP techniques for annotation and classification of radiological reports.•Combination of a cascade of machine learning based classifiers and heuristic rules.•Experimental evaluation of the classification system showing good performance.

论文关键词:Text mining,Text classification,Analysis of radiological reports,Machine learning for information extraction,NLP for biomedical texts

论文评审过程:Received 2 November 2017, Revised 10 May 2018, Accepted 25 May 2018, Available online 7 June 2018, Version of Record 6 November 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.05.006