Expanding a radiology lexicon using contextual patterns in radiology reports.

Objective: Distributional semantics algorithms, which learn vector space representations of words and phrases from large corpora, identify related terms based on contextual usage patterns. We hypothesize that distributional semantics can speed up lexicon expansion in a clinical domain, radiology, by...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 679 - 686
Main Authors: Percha, Bethany, Yuhao Zhang, Bozkurt, Selen, Rubin, Daniel, Altman, Russ B., Langlotz, Curtis P., Zhang, Yuhao
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2018
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