Evaluation of Negation and Uncertainty Detection and its Impact on Precision and Recall in Search.

Radiology reports contain information that can be mined using a search engine for teaching, research, and quality assurance purposes. Current search engines look for exact matches to the search term, but they do not differentiate between reports in which the search term appears in a positive context...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 234 - 243
Autores principales: Wu, Andrew, Do, Bao, Kim, Jinsuh, Rubin, Daniel
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2011
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        affil: Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive Iowa City 52242 USA
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          Information Retrieval
          Radiography
          Data Mining
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          Reports
          Natural Language Processing
          Fisher's Exact Test
          Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
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          Evaluation Research
      ab: Radiology reports contain information that can be mined using a search engine for teaching, research, and quality assurance purposes. Current search engines look for exact matches to the search term, but they do not differentiate between reports in which the search term appears in a positive context (i.e., being present) from those in which the search term appears in the context of negation and uncertainty. We describe RadReportMiner, a context-aware search engine, and compare its retrieval performance with a generic search engine, Google Desktop. We created a corpus of 464 radiology reports which described at least one of five findings (appendicitis, hydronephrosis, fracture, optic neuritis, and pneumonia). Each report was classified by a radiologist as positive (finding described to be present) or negative (finding described to be absent or uncertain). The same reports were then classified by RadReportMiner and Google Desktop. RadReportMiner achieved a higher precision (81%), compared with Google Desktop (27%; p < 0.0001). RadReportMiner had a lower recall (72%) compared with Google Desktop (87%; p = 0.006). We conclude that adding negation and uncertainty identification to a word-based radiology report search engine improves the precision of search results over a search engine that does not take this information into account. Our approach may be useful to adopt into current report retrieval systems to help radiologists to more accurately search for radiology reports.
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