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Identification of Patients with Family History of Pancreatic Cancer--Investigation of an NLP System Portability.
Studies in health technology and informatics - 1 Jan 2015
Mehrabi Saeed, Krishnan Anand, Roch Alexandra M, Schmidt Heidi, Li DingCheng, Kesterson Joe, Beesley Chris, Dexter Paul, Schmidt Max, Palakal Mathew, Liu Hongfang
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In this study we have developed a rule-based natural language processing (NLP) system to identify patients with family history of pancreatic cancer. The algorithm was developed in a Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) framework and consisted of section segmentation, relation discovery, and negation detection. The system was evaluated on data from two institutions. The family history...
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