Named entity recognition of follow-up and time information in 20,000 radiology reports.

Objective: To develop a system to extract follow-up information from radiology reports. The method may be used as a component in a system which automatically generates follow-up information in a timely fashion.Methods: A novel method of combining an LSP (labeled sequential pattern) classifier with a...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 19; no. 5; pp. 792 - 800
Main Authors: Xu, Yan, Tsujii, Junichi, Chang, Eric I-Chao
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2012
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